But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina's debut has gone disastrously awry. They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail's most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina's chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. Martin's Press'-Copyright page.įrom the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic. Still enjoyable and lovely though, so I’d pick it up if it sounds like your jam.About the Book 'Originally published in 2017 by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. But at the same time, it felt like you could have had that whole novel without the telekinesis (almost) and it be the same. It was used in certain interesting way, especially at the end of part 1.

Also, like, two of the characters had telekinesis, I feel like more could have been made of that, or at least add to some interesting dramatic tension. It was a lot of conversations and Hector freaking out about Valerie. I wish Luc got it worse, what a jerk.Īnyway, the things I didn’t like so much, was that it felt a bit slow at times. Really, it could have been worse, I would have been happy with it being worse. Who deserves everything that happened to her at the end. The most pleasing part of the book is when you realise everyone’s going to be happy, except for Valerie. I guess the whole point is that he had to go on this journey and realise that she really wasn’t a nice person, but it feels like anyone could have seen that.

I also liked Hector, but part of his story was being fiercely in love with Valerie, but it just didn’t seem that realistic. Also, just fiercely intelligent and interested in the natural world. Nina was really lovely, naive but then very much not, due to the circumstances of the novel. Things I liked about the novel was Nina, she really was the star of the book. I did really worry that the ending of this book was going to be terribly sad, that everyone was going to end up unhappy. However, her cousin and Hector have a history! And unfortunately for Nina, she’s caught between the two. On top of having this power, Nina has to spend the year in the city, under the tutelage of her cousin Valerie to join ‘society’. While Hector can demonstrate his powers in front of paying audiences, for a woman like Nina, it’s frowned upon. However, sometimes people have telekinetic powers, including the two main characters of the novel, Nina and Hector.

This book takes place in a world similar to ours, around the turn of the 20th century. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is one of my favourite authors, though she can make me ugly cry by the end of a novel. I had picked up this book ages ago but only just got around to reading it.

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