Now this is what I’m talking about, and this is what I was hoping for when I started this series. While it takes place in the same Jane-Austen-with-magic world, this book has much more plot and action and drama and it’s nifty.
After getting married, Jane and Vincent have been doing a glamural for the Prince of England (who sounds lovely), but then they end up taking a honeymoon trip to Belgium, something that’s been undoable for years since Napoleon has been in charge. But Napoleon’s recently been deposed (it’s 1815) and hey, why not make a trip to the Continent to stay with Vincent’s glamourist friend there? However, Vincent’s acting a little weird while they’re there and Jane is bothered by this. Also, she comes up pregnant and of course that means she’s forbidden from doing glamour, which makes her feel completely useless and takes away what she and her husband bonded over. However, right before that happened, Jane came up with a brilliant idea: figuring out that a glamour can be trapped in glass and used without having to make glamour. How cool is that?
Not only cool, but useful.... since usually glamour can’t be worked while one is moving or pregnant.
I enjoyed Jane’s thinking. She’s the kind of girl who tries to figure out how to handle a royal dinner while noticing something in the glamural she wants to fix. She gets annoyed when her husband gets all the credit in public, though he supports the heck out of her. She gets scared that her husband will lose his connection to her without her being able to work glamour. I loved how they figured out new uses for glamour. And when Napoleon comes roaring back and abducts her husband, Jane has to figure out how to rescue him with the tools she has on hand. And she’s awesome. You go, girl. Four stars.
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