Belle Révolte - BookWyrm

Hardcover

Published Aug. 3, 2020 by Sourcebooks Fire.

ISBN:: 978-1-4926-7922-6

(2 reviews)

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 wor.

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.

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Tsundoku reviewed Belle Révolte by Linsey Miller

Queer revolutions!

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Okay, there are two viewpoint characters. One of them is blatantly asexual (but not aro) the other I THINK is supposed to be read as Aro but not asexual. I'm not entirely certain.

There's a prominent trans man in the book, and a lot of lesbians.

I'm not really going to go into details, because to be frank with you, I had a hard time following this book at times, I think because of problems in my own life right now. Very much I want to be clear, I had this problem with another book I read at the same time so it's ME not the book.

But the basic gist is a binary magic system that is actually a spectrum, and while actually magic, is also a metaphor for gender.

And there's a revolution, as you may have guessed from the title.

Bethany

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June 25, 2020