This well-reviewed historical novel is set in Paris in the late 1670's and somehow manages to be both occasionally delightful, as well as way too weird. The author has a flair for describing a far-off place and time with insight and perceptive detail. However, the lead characters, a magician just released from the galleys, and a peasant woman convinced she is a sorceress, are just not the right vehicles to tell a tale of that time. Some of the characters in the book were real life denizens of the Parisian underworld of abortionists, magicians, conjurers and charlatans.
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