spoltz
10/30/2021
Winner of the Mythopoeic Award in 1994, this book is a tour de force of alternative history and light fantasy. It takes the story of a dysfunctional noble family in eighteenth century France through the Revolution bracketed by a four-hundred-year-old family curse as told through the eyes of a chambermaid. The story is richly conveyed with personal details, history, society, and gossip, so much so that the curse is occasionally lost in the telling. However, the telling is superb. I read Through a Brazen Mirror by Sherman about a year and a half ago and loved it. So I went into this book expecting a lot and I got it.
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