The Prologue opens the story by showing us what happens to Sidra and Yvette after the events of the last book. The answer is ‘no’ – at least not unless you do one small thing that revolves around Yvette, who is still a condemned murderer and fugitive. Here Elena comes to the city to meet her future mother-in-law, but before she does she needs approval from the government to continue being a vine witch. Elena is still the main character as she was in The Vine Witch, but The Glamourist now features Yvette’s story. Without realizing it at the time, it is each of these women who the three books of the Vine Witch series focuses on.
Without trying to spoil anything if you haven’t read the first book in the series, in The Vine Witch there is a moment where Elena is thrown in jail and ends up in a cell with two other women – Yvette and Sidra.
Of course it isn’t as simple as that since Elena now has to contend with the Ministry of Lineages and Licenses. Instead, The Glamourist is a simple story about the next chapter in Elena’s life with her new fiancee: Meeting the future mother-in-law. High octane action/adventure novels are great, but the energy those give off often makes me feel a need to rush to the finish. It’s the relaxed atmosphere and mood that draws me to this series.
But what restless magic will be unleashed? And what are Yvette and Elena willing to risk to become the witches they were destined to be? Joined by a cunning thief, the proprietor of an enchanted-curio shop, and a bewitching black cat, Elena and Yvette are determined to decode Yvette’s mysterious keepsake. Even as she struggles with her own bloodline-and its poisonous threat to her future-Elena can’t ignore a friend on the run. To unlock the secrets of her past, Yvette trusts in one woman to help solve the arcane riddles among its charmed pages.Įlena Boureanu is the vine witch of Château Renard, noted for its renowned wines.
With a price on her head, she clings to a memento from her past-what she believes to be a grimoire inherited from the mother she never knew. But what brave and resourceful Yvette has done to survive the streets has made her a fugitive. A spellbinding novel of bloodlines, self-discovery, and redemption by the author of the Washington Post bestseller The Vine Witch.Ībandoned as a child in turn-of-the-century Paris, Yvette Lenoir has longed to uncover the secrets of her magical heritage and tap her suppressed powers.
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