Can't-Wait Wednesday is a feature hosted at Wishful Endings where people showcase an upcoming book they are looking forward to.
This week my pick is . . .
Title: An Affair of Poisons
Author: Addie Thornley
Pages: 400
Publisher: Page Street Kids
Release Date: 26th February 2019
Blurb from Goodreads:
After unwittingly
helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist
Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother’s Shadow Society in a
horrifying new light: they’re not heroes of the people, as they’ve
always claimed to be, but murderers. Herself included. Mira tries to
ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and
headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters her
mother vows to purge.
Royal bastard Josse de Bourbon is more kitchen boy than fils de France. But when the Shadow Society assassinates the Sun King and half the royal court, he must become the prince he was never meant to be in order to save his injured sisters and the petulant Dauphin. Forced to hide in the derelict sewers beneath the city, any hope of reclaiming Paris seems impossible—until Josse’s path collides with Mirabelle’s, and he finds a surprising ally in his sworn enemy.
She's a deadly poisoner. He's a bastard prince. Together, they form a tenuous pact to unite the commoners and former nobility against the Shadow Society. But can a rebellion built on mistrust ever hope to succeed?
Royal bastard Josse de Bourbon is more kitchen boy than fils de France. But when the Shadow Society assassinates the Sun King and half the royal court, he must become the prince he was never meant to be in order to save his injured sisters and the petulant Dauphin. Forced to hide in the derelict sewers beneath the city, any hope of reclaiming Paris seems impossible—until Josse’s path collides with Mirabelle’s, and he finds a surprising ally in his sworn enemy.
She's a deadly poisoner. He's a bastard prince. Together, they form a tenuous pact to unite the commoners and former nobility against the Shadow Society. But can a rebellion built on mistrust ever hope to succeed?
Why I'm Anticipating This Book:
Poison! Historical France!
This sounds so good! Definitely adding it to my TBR. Thanks for sharing it!
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