While its supposed historical setting is all but irrelevant, the dynamics between the various Guilds were enough to keep me engaged. I tend to enjoy books with complex plots involving plenty of politics and intrigue, and this delivered.

Really, this is a YA novel with a kickass heroine willing to go to extreme lengths to save her sister–and while it contains elements of other stories, it ultimately is its own. Comparisons to Six of Crows likewise are pretty superficial, and only make sense insofar as that both books are set in a criminal underworld. This is a YA novel set in an alternative history where Eponine is one of the prized cat burglars in the infamous Guild of Thieves, and her main goal is to break every law of her Guild in order to save Cosette from being sold as a prostitute. Readers should, however, throw out all expectations.

Yes, there is a character called Eponine who has an adopted sister named Cosette, and a few other characters appear whom readers will recognize from Victor Hugo’s work. Les Misérables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris’s criminal underground in the wake of the French Revolution.Ĭalling A Court of Miracles a retelling of Les Misérables is a bit of a stretch. And it also forces Nina to make a terrible choice–protect Ettie and set off a brutal war between the guilds, or forever lose her sister to the Tiger. Her vow takes her from the city’s dark underbelly to the glittering court of Louis XVII. When Ettie attracts the eye of the Tiger–the ruthless lord of the Guild of Flesh–Nina is caught in a desperate race to keep the younger girl safe. Nina’s life is midnight robberies, avoiding her father’s fists, and watching over her naïve adopted sister, Cosette (Ettie). Eponine (Nina) Thénardier is a talented cat burglar and member of the Thieves Guild. In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the city is divided between merciless royalty and nine underworld criminal guilds, known as the Court of Miracles.

The court of miracles by kester grant