Truthfully, this novel is a bit overstuffed in terms of plot, but it’s still a largely enjoyable read for what it is. Though this story doesn’t spend much time on her magic, Camille is still a magician, and when the King outlaws her kind, she’ll have to find a way to keep herself, her friends, and the Lost Girls who are counting on her to help keep them safe. The flower sellers, the forgers, the pickpockets who struggle to get by and who are suffering as the city heaves in the early days of the revolution. But when she discovers “The Lost Girls”, a group of downtrodden Parisian women living in a destitute situation under a bridge, she decides to use her printing press to highlight the stories of the city’s marginalized and unfortunate souls that society looks down on. Now, instead of life as a magician or a gambler, Camille longs to print pamphlets as her father once did, sharing stories of truth and philosophy with the wider world. In this sequel, Camille has survived poverty, escaped Versailles and managed to make something of a home for herself in Paris, in an intriguingly semi-magical house that I wish this story had spent more time on. And I feel kind of ripped off about that as a reader. But other than featuring characters who share names with those that also appeared in All That Glitters, this book has almost nothing to do with the first installment. In fact, it’s a well put together story of resistance and the power of storytelling to sway hearts and mind. To be fair, I should say straight out of the gate that this book isn’t bad. Unfortunately, Everything That Burns is not the follow-up that I wanted for Camille and friends. The story was lush and exciting, as the French Revolution bears down upon an aristocracy literally dancing until the last possible moment. Eventually, she uses her magic to pass as nobility in the Palace of Versailles, where she rapidly finds herself caught up in court intrigues even as she makes herself ill attempting to win big at the gambling tables in its famous salons.

And those are probably the least shocking changes that occur between this sequel and its predecessor.Įnchantee/All That Glitters followed the story of Camille Durbonne, a young woman who was forced to use her magic to keep herself and her sister Sophie alive – sometimes turning random items like buttons into coins and spending them before the spell wore off and they become lumps of clay. Enchantee itself has since been renamed All That Glitters. Originally called Liberte, this novel has undergone a title change and suffered multiple publication delays over the course of the pandemic that’s rocked much of the publishing world.

Gita Trelease’s Everything That Burns is technically a sequel to the 2019 YA fantasy novel Enchantee.

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