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This is a bit of a twist on the Prince and the Pauper and sounds really interesting. I've always liked the mix of magic and aristocracy with all its various levels of society because there is just a lot you can do with that, particularly building complex characters. It's my pick this week...
Belle Révolte
YA Fantasy
Hardcover & ebook, 384 Pages
February 1st 2020 by Sourcebooks Fire
Summary
From the author of the Mask of Shadows duology comes a standalone fantasy where two young women must trade lives, work together to stay alive, and end a war caused by magic and greed before it kills thousands.
Emilie de Marais is more at home holding scalpels than embroidery needles and is desperate to escape her noble roots to serve her country as a physician. But society dictates a noble lady cannot perform such gruesome work.
Annette Boucher, overlooked and overworked by her family, wants more from life than her humble beginnings and is desperate to be trained in magic. So when a strange noble girl offers Annette the chance of a lifetime, she accepts.
Emilie and Annette swap lives―Annette attends finishing school as a noble lady to be trained in the ways of divination, while Emilie enrolls to be a physician's assistant, using her natural magical talent to save lives.
But when their nation instigates a terrible war, Emilie and Annette come together to help the rebellion unearth the truth before it's too late.
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Will you be reading this one?
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