![]() ![]() ![]() My assumptions were correct! The setting was gothic and very atmospheric and I loved being immersed into this world. I love historical fiction, as well as Beauty and the Beast retellings, so I had a feeling that I would really enjoy this book. *I received an e-arc from the author and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review* But once she gets into the mansion, she discovers dark secrets hidden away-secrets of the curse, of Lord Sebastien. Marie knows the only place she’ll find the cure is in the mansion where Ama was cursed in the first place, home of Lord Sebastien LeClaire. And if she can’t control her, she’ll have to cure her. But when a young boy turns up dead one morning, Marie is forced to acknowledge she might be losing control of Ama. Marking Ama’s victims controls the damage to keep suspicion at bay. Marie laces the perfume delicately-not with poison but with a hint of honeysuckle she’s trained her sister to respond to. ![]() But her perfumes are more than sweet scents in cheap, cut-glass bottles: A certain few are laced with death. ![]() She wants to make enough to save a dowry for her sister, Ama, in hopes of Ama marrying well and Marie living in the level of freedom afforded only to spinster aunts. Seventeen-year-old Marie mixes perfumes to sell on market day in her small eighteenth-century French town. A gothic YA fantasy debut about a young woman striving to break her sister’s curse and stop the killing in her small French town ![]()
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