Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A sumptuous and thrilling conclusion to Camille’s story set during the French Revolution.
Camille and her sister Sophie now have a home and money; but many other lost girls are less fortunate. Camille helps a flower girl escape the untrue accusations of a nobleman and meets a group of girls that are about to be evicted. She writes their stories to get them support. Meanwhile, both the king and the revolutionaries are calling for the deaths of magicians like her. Revolutionary Paris becomes even more dangerous and Camille has not told Lazare that she is performing magic again.
Lazare continues to be a dynamic and layered love interest (who flies hot air balloons). The romance grows with their relationship. Camille finally accepts who she is and is willing to pay the ultimate price for her beliefs. Author Gita Trelease does a beautiful job of showing how revolutions can begin with hope and ideals, but then end in violence and destruction. She also includes several facts at the end of the book about the French Revolution.
A bloody and beautiful, murderous and magical, romantic and revolutionary book.
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Gita Trelease's Everything That Burns is the transporting
sequel to All That Glitters, hailed by NPR as a “soaring success”!
Camille Durbonne gambled everything she had to keep herself and her sister safe. But as the people of Paris starve and mobs riot, safety may no longer be possible...
...Not when Camille lives for the rebellion. In the pamphlets she prints, she tells the stories of girls living at society’s margins. But as her writings captivate the public, she begins to suspect a dark magic she can’t control lies at the heart of her success. Then Louis XVI declares magic a crime and all magicians traitors to France. As bonfires incinerate enchanted books and special police prowl the city, the time for magic—and those who work it—is running out.
In this new Paris where allegiances shift and violence erupts, the answers Camille seeks set her on a perilous path, one that may cost her the boy she loves—even her life. If she can discover who she truly is before vengeful forces unmask her, she may still win this deadly game of revolution.
Published by Flatiron, 2/2/2021
Hardcover | $18.99 | ISBN: 9781250295569
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Gita Trelease is the author of All That
Glitters (UK Enchantée,) a YA fantasy set on the eve of the French Revolution,
and the sequel Everything That Burns. Born in Sweden to Indian and Swedish
parents, Gita has lived in New York, Paris, and a tiny town in Italy. She
attended Yale College and New York University, where she earned a Ph.D. in
British literature. Before writing novels, she taught classes on monsters and
fairy tales. With her family, Gita divides her time between a village in
Massachusetts and the coast of Maine, where she searches for a secret portal to
take her back to Versailles.
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