Gita Trelease
Born in Sweden to Indian and Swedish parents, Gita Trelease has lived in many places, including New York, Paris, and a tiny town in central Italy. She attended Yale College and New York University, where she earned a Ph.D. in British literature. Before becoming a novelist, she taught classes on writing and fairy tales. Along with her husband and son, Gita divides her time between a village in Massachusetts and the coast of Maine. Enchantee is her debut novel.
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All That Glitters
- By: Gita Trelease
- Narrator: Justine Eyre
- Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: February 05, 2019
- Language: English
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3.69(1291 ratings)
“Narrator Justine Eyre helps transport listeners to prerevolutionary France and the intrigues of Louis XVI’s court…Period details, some romance, and an exciting ending create a satisfying listen.” — AudioFile Magazine
Originally published as Enchantee, Gita Trelease’s debut fantasy about an orphaned girl who uses dark magic to save her sister and herself is “a soaring success” (NPR)!
Paris is a labyrinth 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 young 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.
Praise for Enchantee:
“Deliciously addictive. Enchantee is a lit firework crackling with treacherous magic, decadent romance, and disguises that take on lives of their own. I adore this gorgeous book.”– Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval
“A heady, sparkling dream of a book. I tumbled head over heels into Enchantee‘s dark and sumptuous magical Paris and wanted to stay there forever. One of the best fantasies I’ve read in years.”– Margaret Rogerson, New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens
“Enchantee is a soaring success. I can think of no more satisfying way to fly across the years and enjoy a gilded view of Paris as it never was but could have been, with a little magic.” — NPR
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- By: Gita Trelease
- Narrator: Justine Eyre
- Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: February 02, 2021
- Language: English
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3.75(504 ratings)
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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books
[A] seamless sequel to All That Glitters…Diverse characters, a compelling plot, romantic tension, and Camille’s internal conflict with her own magic powers fuel this intriguing story that will resonate with fantasy and historical fiction fans.” —School Library Journal
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