Belle Revolte

By: Linsey Miller

Narrated by: Moira Quirk, Liz Pearce

From the author of the Mask of Shadows duology comes a stand-alone fantasy where two young women must trade lives, work together to stay alive, and end a war caused by magic and greed before it kills thousands.

Emilie de 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 terrible war, Emilie and Annette come together to help the rebellion unearth the truth before it's too late.

©2020 Linsey Miller (P)2020 Recorded Books

Excellent story

Fantastic narrators, absolutely amazing writing. I love all of the characters so much, & the world building - I love it all! I’m so happy I impulse got this because it made me think “Tamora Pierce’s Lioness Quartet meets The Prince & the Pauper” via the summary because that’s very accurate!

Lots of French words

It was beautifully accented and the two narrators made it easy to distinguish between each FMC’s POV. However, this was a snooze fest that seemed to care most about French names, titles, and attitude. There’s also a lot of repetition of things like “noonday magic” and “midnight magic,” as if quantity would impress more than quality. The use of F bombs seemed out of place; I would have thought some French swear words would have made more sense, considering this author’s love affair with the language. Neither the world, plot, or characters drew me in.