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Thank you to the author for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!|

Hotel Magnifique is story about a whimsical traveling hotel where guests go to have their dreams fulfilled. Jani and her sister, Zosa, go looking of a job inside the hotel, where not everything is a magical as it seems.

I won an ARC of this book via a giveaway the author did and I was so excited! This book has been on my radar for quite a while and I couldn’t be more excited to have an early copy!

The prose of this book is what drew me in from the beginning! A magical traveling hotel, sign me up haha! As someone who loves traveling (and hasn’t been able to go much due to the pandemic) I love getting lost in stories like this one! From start to finish I enjoyed this so very much that I really wanna book a stay, or win a ticket to stay, in Hotel Magnifique!

A world were magic isn’t really accepted with a hotel where suminaires, those who have magic, can live freely and safely was really intriguing. Jani wanting to better her situation for her sister and herself was really admirable as well.

The worldbuilding wasn’t needed much when most of the story took place in this whimsical hotel, but the details and description of this hotel made it sounds amazing and very magical. The way this book was written really submersed me into this world I wanted to be a part of. The cast of characters added to the hotel and it was just amazing to read this wonderful book. The writing was also really easy to follow along and it was really engaging to read as well.

Jani was a really interesting main character and very relatable. She’s very stubborn, which you notice every time she does what she wants or acts on her own thoughts and feelings. While she is stubborn and a bit rash sometimes, her devotion to her sister and those she comes to see as friends is what makes her a really admirable character.

All the characters are what really brought this book to a whole new level. The hotel and the prose in itself were magical to read, but the cast of characters really completed this story. All of them were vastly different but so essential to the story and development. Beatrice really stole my heart and Hellas and Frigga were super intriguing as well! All these character were so well written and developed with really rich background stories.

Her chemistry with Bell and the tension that springs off the pages is really fun to read. You just keep turning the pages to see how those two will evolve and how they push each other to grow. I like how their friendship started off and gradually grew, but I wished it was explored a bit more as if felt a bit to fast sometimes.

Overall, I immensely enjoyed this journey throughout a whimsical hotel with an amazingly rich cast of characters that really carried this story along.