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Danica is a young woman living in the Sonoman-Versailles Palace, which is a country of its own with its people living like the 18th Century French. Danica is soon to be Queen but it’s the last thing she wants and the engagement was made through an act of blackmail. She needs to raise desperate funds to escape her world, and her luck changed when she discovers the addictive drug Glitter and a way to sell it to her fellow nobles and royals.

This is absolutely brilliant! The world and the plot is something I’ve never encountered before and everything is laid out elaborately and cleverly and everything comes together really, really well. The world building for me was perfection and I loved how well Danica was able to explain how the people in the palace of Versailles lived and were governed while the rest of the world was more or less how we live today. But at the same time, the people in Versailles have their own modern technology to help them with the ay they live from Lens to bots and an overriding system called MARIE.

I really loved Danica's personal journey throughout this book from being a woman completely trapped to figuring out a way to help herself get out of the mess. She has been controlled her whole life and is finally figuring out a way to get her own life back. I loved Saber and the relationship that formed - it was genuine and sweet and did I mention I love Saber?

I can’t wait for more in this series as this was such a strong first book. I need more, more, more in this world. It was so great.