The fantastical element of magic- telekinesis- is added in, so I knew it wasn’t going to be a straight-up ‘boy meets girl’ story. I’m not normally one for romances, but multiple reviewers had stated that Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s writing was beautiful and captivating, so I was willing to give it a try. I wasn’t sure what to think of this book when I read the summary on the back. She would rather spend her days studying bugs or shopping for books, but when Hector begins courting her, she falls head over heels. He grew so desirous of being near Valerie again that he pretended to pay court to her young cousin-by-marriage, Antonina.įor her own part, Antonina- or Nina, as she preferred to be called- has no interest in following the rules of etiquette and style that Valerie has laid down. He became one of the wealthiest men in Loisail, but no woman ever touched his heart.
Through those ten years, Hector never got over his love for Valerie.
And so, over the next ten years, Valerie subsumed her passions into an obsession with the manners and fashions of the Beautiful Ones until she was the one who determined what was fashionable and who was uncouth and undesirable. Their hopes for a prosperous future lay solely on the beautiful young Valerie, who bowed to their wills and married a wealthy but boring man. Valerie’s family, though, was old and noble and had lost nearly all their wealth in the past few generations. Over the course of the Grand Season in Loisail, they vowed they would marry once Hector returned from across the sea. Ten years ago, Valerie fell madly in love with a young telekinetic performer named Hector. This in no way influenced my opinion of the book. Note: I won an advance copy of The Beautiful ones in a Goodreads Giveaway. The Beautiful Ones is a sweeping fantasy of manners set in a world inspired by the Belle Époque. As they spend more and more time together, Nina falls in love and believes she’s found the great romance that she’s always dreamed of, but Hector’s courtship of Nina is deceptive. Yet dazzling telekinetic performer and outsider Hector Auvray sees Nina’s powers as a gift, and he teaches her how to hone and control them. However, the haphazard manifestations of Nina’s telekinetic powers make her the subject of malicious gossip. Under the tutelage of the beautiful but cold Valérie Beaulieu, she hopes to find a suitable husband. From Goodreads: In a world of etiquette and polite masks, no one is who they seem to be.Īntonina Beaulieu is in the glittering city of Loisail for her first Grand Season, where she will attend balls and mingle among high society.
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