Cake Eater
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2.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
"With a love story for the ages, this vivid tale takes the history we know and recasts it into an exciting, technicolor, future world that challenges what we know here in the present, and how we know it. I loved it! I couldn't put it down!" —Beth Revis, New York Times bestselling author of the Across the Universe trilogy
Decadent, thrilling, and romantic, this Black Mirror-esque retelling of the reign of one Marie Antoinette is perfect for fans of The Belles and American Royals.
The year is 3070, and Marie Antoinette has just arrived at the glittering, thrilling palace of Versailles to marry the shy, soft-spoken Louis-Auguste.
But beneath the luxurious world lies a sinister underbelly and an uncompromising elite who want to keep Marie and Louis pawns in a deadly game.
Will history repeat itself? Or will these doomed lovers outwit their enemies and escape their grisly fate?
Cake Eater will take readers to a dazzling world full of breathless luxuries, deadly secrets, and a thrilling romance that attempts to rewrite history itself.
One quiet prince. One media-savvy princess. And a historical fate that says they’re both doomed.
A Marie Antoinette Retelling: The year is 3070, and a teenage Marie is sent to marry Louis-Auguste, but this time she might just escape her grisly fate.A High-Tech Versailles: Imagine the glittering French court with androids, holofones, and neon-laced palaces, where deadly secrets hide beneath a technicolor sheen.A Slow Burn Royal Romance: She’s a media-savvy princess; he’s a shy, soft-spoken prince. They’re strangers bound by duty, but their connection could be the one thing that saves them.Deadly Political Intrigue: Beneath the luxury lies an uncompromising elite who see Marie and Louis as pawns in a dangerous game they are determined to win.
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Seventeen-year-old Marie Antoinette arrives in 3070 Versailles, an empire on the verge of collapse—replete with android guards, state-run surveillance, and ubiquitous social media—in Dahlin's intriguingly bizarre alternate history debut, a reimagining of the French Revolution. After a cataclysmic climate event wipes out half the world's population, the remaining members of the 31st-century French ruling class take refuge at Versailles while citizens outside the palace suffer. Armed with her bejeweled holofone, socialite Marie and her shy, sensitive new husband Louis oppose the Third Estate, a faction of the French government that's now responsible for brutal suppression of dissenting citizens through media censorship. Using Marie's social cunning and Louis's hacking skills, the teen rulers must find a way to maintain their power—or risk being ground down by surrounding Versailles nobility. While Dahlin occasionally struggles to balance this jam-packed novel's many ingredients with its real-life historical context, resulting in thin present, past, and future parallels, the cast is theatrically rendered, and the increasingly wild extrapolations of the source material are innovative. The narrative's dark, acerbic tone lends an effectively unnerving atmosphere to this frenetic combination of rococo aesthetics and modern social commentary. A completely singular read. Characters cue as white. Ages 13–up.
