Emilie 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. 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 frivolous war, Emilie and Annette must work together to help the rebellion end a war that is based on lies.
My Review:
Oh, this book! I really enjoyed Linsey Miller's duology, and this book sounded really great, i just never got around to it, until I got a chance to read it via audiobook, and just jumped at it! I loved this world of magic and the politics these girls got drawn into!
For these girls to basically switch places, at least in society, was really interesting. Emilie doesn't want to study the magic and manners meant for a high society lady, she wants to go into medicine. Annette comes from a working class family, with little opportunity for more. So switching lives helps both of them.
The magic of this world was really interesting, with healing and scrying, seeing the past and the future, and is pretty important, given the uses that was made of it, espcailly some pretty heinous stuff. Which draws them into the rebellion against the king.
I loved seeing both of their stories, as they were learning, about their magic, and what they believed in, as they were brought into this fight! That one point, oh, that was pretty disheartening, but it was amazing to see how it all worked out!
Loved reading this book and I'd love to read more by Linsey Miller!
Author: Linsey Miller
Read: September 24th, 2023
Source: NetGalley/Audible
Reason Why: I've enjoyed her writing and it's a RR Book, SAC 2023 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published: February 4th 2020
Author: Linsey Miller
Read: September 24th, 2023
Source: NetGalley/Audible
Reason Why: I've enjoyed her writing and it's a RR Book, SAC 2023 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published: February 4th 2020
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