A welcome twist on the tropes of sword and sorcery novels. Magic, rebellion, secrets, and self-discovery High fantasy with asexual and aromantic representationīooks with trans and non-binary characters Is "a welcome twist on the tropes of sword and sorcery novels" (School Library Journal), perfect for readers looking for: Belle Rvolte by Linsey Miller (2020, Hardcover) Genre: Young Adult Fiction, Juvenile Fiction Topic: General, Lgbt, Fantasy / Dark Fantasy, Girls & Women. So when a strange noble girl offers Annette the chance of a lifetime, she accepts.Įmilie 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.īut when their nation instigates a terrible war, Emilie and Annette come together to help the rebellion unearth the truth before it's too late. Miller pulls no punches in a stark examination of class structures and the consequences of conflating worth and wealth set against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic fantasy world. But society dictates a noble lady cannot perform such gruesome work.Īnnette Boucher, overlooked and overworked by her family, wants more from life than her humble beginnings and is desperate to be trained in magic. In this standalone French-inspired fantasy, two young women work together in secret to stay alive and end a war. From the author of the Mask of Shadows duology comes this fast-paced YA fantasy, where two young women must trade lives, work together to stay alive, and end a war caused by magic and greedĮmilie des 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.
0 kommentar(er)
