在法國大革命的時候,巴黎街頭充斥著乞丐、小偷、革命者與魔法師,而主角Camille Durbonne就是其中一員。
在父母因患天花而去世之後,Camille身兼重任養活她的妹妹並努力逃離那喜怒無常的哥哥。初期她使用魔法將金屬碎片變為硬幣供應日常所需,但魔法無法讓硬幣永遠保持原樣,最終還是會變為碎片;她便開始使用母親一向禁止的黑暗魔法,將自己變成了男爵夫人,並於凡爾賽宮貴族之中遊走生活著。在她努力調適她對富人們的怨恨、魅力及誘惑時,Camille遇到了一個年輕英俊的發明家,她開始相信除了生活之外,愛情和自由都有了可能性……
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但是魔法是需要成本的,Camille開始慢慢失去了對魔法的控制權,而當革命爆發時,她必須選擇跟從愛或忠誠、民主或皇族,又或是在巴黎開始燃燒之前,意識到魔法所帶來的現實面。(文/博客來編譯)
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Love. Magic. Revolution...Enchant e is Gita Trelease''s imaginative debut fantasy about an impoverished magician desperate to provide for her beloved sister on the eve of the French Revolution.
"Deliciously addictive." --Stephanie Garber, author of Caraval
"A heady, sparkling dream of a book." --Margaret Rogerson, author of An Enchantment of Ravens
"An utterly beguiling spell." --Laura Sebastian, author of Ash Princess
Paris is a labryinth of twisted streets filled with beggars and thieves, revolutionaries and magicians. Camille Durbonne is one of them. She wishes she weren''t...
When smallpox kills her parents, Camille must find a way to provide for her younger sister while managing her volatile brother. Relying on magic, Camille painstakingly transforms scraps of metal into money to buy food and medicine they need. But when the coins won''t hold their shape and her brother disappears with the family''s savings, Camille pursues a richer, more dangerous mark: the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Using dark magic forbidden by her mother, Camille transforms herself into a baroness and is swept up into life at the Palace of Versailles, where aristocrats both fear and hunger for magic. As she struggles to reconcile her resentment of the rich with the allure of glamour and excess, Camille meets a handsome younge inventor, and begins to believe that love and liberty may both be possible.
But magic has its costs, and soon Camille loses control of her secrets. And when revolution erupts, Camille must choose--love or loyalty, democracy or aristocracy, reality of magic--before Paris burns.