First of all I want to thank The Court of Miracles for bringing me out of a terrible reading slump! It was just so much fun from beginning to end, that I couldnt put it down.

Now, the uncultured swine that I am, didnt realise that this was a reimagining of Les Miserables. I didnt realise any of this until a certain character was introduced and I thought, wait...I know that name! Either way, it was a fun and clever read that unfolds in a world in which the French Revolution had not happened.

So, Nina's sister is sold by their father into slavery/prostitution, run by one of nine Guild Lords of The Miracle Court. We follow Nina during her trials to get her sister back and what trials they are! Filled with mystery and assassins and thieves and ghosts, TCoM is a fast paced tale of - as the book rightly states on the front - liberty, family and treachery.

I really liked Nina as a character. Her dry humour and impatience with idiocy and frivolity of the French Court were all really fun to read. Her encounters with the dauphin were really entertaining and while there was no full on romance in this one, the connections she does have, are all the more touching for it by the end.

Goes without saying, but i recommend.