This was a beautiful tale of magic and sisterly love set in Paris. I enjoyed this book. It makes you feel as if you are in Paris.

I would like to thank Netgalley and the Publisher for providing me with a copy of this book. This is my honest opinion of it.

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This book was everything I imagined it would be and so much more. The author’s writing swept me up and I found myself apart of a magical world of intrigue. I watched as Camille made her way through the 2 different worlds she was apart of and watched as the two worlds collided. I was at the edge of my seat wondering what was going to happen. Not only was the story amazing and full of magic and love, but the writing is so well done that I found myself easily swept up in the drama.
I loved all the characters and in the end I found myself feeling sad for people I disliked the entire book. Camille and her sister Sophie were true heroines. Their love for each other proving that a female can do anything and love is a power nothin else can beat.
This is a must read and I’m just so sorry that so many of you have to wait for the release in Feb 2019. I cannot day enough good about this book.
I saw Stephanie Garber read this book and I’ve been wanting to read it eversense. Thank you so much for the opportunity to read this book I’ve read some great books this year and this is very close to the best book of year. I have 3 books tied for that spot right now.

3 out of 5 stars

Enchanteé is a beautiful written novel about two young women trying to survive in pre-revolutionary Paris. It is a novel of magic, love, sisterly affection, family, splendors and squalor.

Camille and Sophie come from a poor family, their parents are dead and their brother has turned into a drunk. Camille - is the only one brave enough to do magic and try to save her younger sister. While trying to come up with a plan to make money, the two sisters discover their mother’s magic dress which lets the wearer become beautiful and transforms them into some else. With a plan to win at cards in Versailles - Camille sets off and adventures begin.

With romance, absolutely beautiful scenery, sisterly love and quarrels I found the whole book to be shallow and wanting. Every single male is described as “ridiculously good looking,” (which made me think of Zoolander and laugh) the whole plot was predictable and uninspiring, and the ending was just dull. Camille’s sister soon turns from loving to jealous, Camille goes from cautious to arrogant, falls for every man she sees, and think she knows better than everyone else. Honestly, the whole book is Caraval rewritten with a better magic system.

While I have my issues with this book I will acknowledge that it is very well researched, the magic system is very interesting and Miss Trelease gives voices to marginalized characters. Lazare, a young man of French and Indian descent struggles in aristocratic France where he is neither French nor Indian, yet both and his struggle is beautifully portrayed here and honestly made me love him a lot. Imagine living in a world where you did not know where you belonged - it is painful, lonely and sad and I felt for him. Here colonialism can be felt first hand and it’s ramifications - children without nations or homes. In France he is called a savage, yet in India he would be called French.

I would recommend this book to anyone who liked Caraval by Stephanie Garber.

Thank you for providing me an advance copy of this surprisingly diverse and well-written book! I really enjoyed reading it.
This book did a great job at engaging me in the story. I really cared about what was happening to Camille and her sister throughout the story. I especially liked how Camille's internal struggle between her dislike of le magie and her need to help her sister transformed into her taking le magie too far into her false persona.
The only thing that seemed a little forced to me was the villain. When his motives are revealed at the end as being working for Marie Antoinette the whole time it seemed a little... bland for someone who was literally killing Chandon for his power.
But again, overall a great read and one I will definitely be recommending to others.

This magical tale was as immersive, elegant, dark and full of twists and turns as 1789 Paris. The characters were unique in their own individual ways as was Trelease's portrayal of magic.

My only complaint is that while this book was amazing and will get 5 stars from me ... something about it lacked the very root word of its title. I wasn't enchanted. Something about the story demanded a dash of whimsy and it never came.