Marvelous

Thank you Bibliolifestyle and William Morrow for this gifted copy.

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘂𝘀 is out now, and it looks like a fabulous retelling full of history!

𝘼 𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡 𝙨𝙚𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙝 𝙧𝙤𝙮𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙚’ 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙞 𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙙, 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙮𝙢𝙖𝙣’𝙨 𝙒𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙚𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨.

1547: Pedro Gonzales, a young boy living on the island of Tenerife, understands that he is different from the other children in his village. He is mercilessly ridiculed for the hair covering his body from head to toe. When he is kidnapped off the beach near his home, he finds himself delivered by a slave broker into the dangerous and glamorous world of France’s royal court. There “Monsieur Sauvage,” as he is known, learns French, literature, and sword fighting, becoming an attendant to the French King Henri II and a particular favorite of his queen, the formidable Catherine de’ Medici. Queen Catherine considers herself a collector of unusual people and is fascinated by Pedro…and determined to find him a bride.

Catherine Raffelin is a beautiful seventeen-year-old girl whose merchant father has fallen on hard times and offers up his daughter to Queen Catherine. The queen will pay his debts, and his daughter will marry Monsieur Sauvage.

Catherine meets Pedro for the first time on their wedding day. Barely recovered from the shock of her father’s betrayal, she soon finds herself christened “Madame Sauvage” by the royal courtiers, and must learn to navigate this strange new world, and the unusual man who is now her husband.

Gorgeously written, heartbreaking and hopeful, Marvelous is the portrait of a marriage, the story of a remarkable, resilient family, and an unforgettable reimaging of one of the world’s most beloved fairy tales.

💬 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬?