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Fool's Gold

por Celia Lake

Series: Mysterious Powers (4)

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Robin needs colour and freedom.After a series of awful decisions, Robin has spent the past two and a half years under the close supervision of his aunts on the family estate. Finally they've decided he can go back to his work as an art and antique dealer.When he overhears a conversation about historical pigments, he's sure a spot of forgery is in the works. He needs to know more.No one sees Beatrice.Invisible to anyone outside her family due to an inherited curse, Beatrice has made her own good life. She handles the vault records for her banking family, tending to the details with care and attention.She never expected a stranger to approach her in a tea shop. He sees her, and she has no idea why or how. The more they talk, the more she's intrigued.And that's before the coiling magic, the sensible dragon, or Robin's explanations of how her cousin's suitor is manipulating every conversation.Fool's Gold is the fourth book of the Mysterious Powers series, exploring the institutions of Albion during and after the Great War. All of Celia Lake's Albion books exploring the magical community of the British Isles can be read in any order. (Though this book does directly refer to the events of Seven Sisters if you want to avoid spoilers for that book.)It is full of pigments and colour, the magic of banking, and a very bouncy dragon. Enjoy this charming romantic fantasy with a swirl of sex set in 1926 with a happily ever after ending!… (más)
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This turned out to be a great choice to read immediately after Seven Sisters, because it takes a minor and antagonistic character from that story and shows him, a couple of years on, from quite a different perspective -- as a protagonist.

It’s 1925 and Robin is again free to pursue his own interests after time spent under the close supervision on his family’s estate. Curious about some new acquaintances, he observes them meeting two women in a tea shop -- and completely ignoring one of the women, as if they can’t see her.

Beatrice suffers from a family curse that means she is invisible to those outside of her large banking family and spends most of her time handling vault records. But her curse makes her a useful chaperone when her cousin acquires a persuasive new suitor.

This is delightful. I really enjoyed the way Beatrice and Robin’s stories fit together -- not just the way they cross paths, but the way they understand and complement each other thematically. They both have family secrets. Beatrice is a valued part of a loving family but is not used to being literally seen by others. Robin is visible, but not used to being understood -- his family don’t get his artistic ambitions, and those in the art world don’t know the truth about who he is, who his family is.

“Surely that [work of forgery] is a lot of things you are good at, that are required for for it. Paints. Drawing. Painting. Finishing them. Talking about them.”
At the word ‘finishing’, his shoulders hitched up, and he stood again, in a flurry of movement, pulling out three canvases. “I can’t finish things. Not at the moment.”
Beatrice was not at all sure what to do with a professed forger having a crisis of artistic vision at her. In his own flat. Surrounded by his work.
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Robin needs colour and freedom.After a series of awful decisions, Robin has spent the past two and a half years under the close supervision of his aunts on the family estate. Finally they've decided he can go back to his work as an art and antique dealer.When he overhears a conversation about historical pigments, he's sure a spot of forgery is in the works. He needs to know more.No one sees Beatrice.Invisible to anyone outside her family due to an inherited curse, Beatrice has made her own good life. She handles the vault records for her banking family, tending to the details with care and attention.She never expected a stranger to approach her in a tea shop. He sees her, and she has no idea why or how. The more they talk, the more she's intrigued.And that's before the coiling magic, the sensible dragon, or Robin's explanations of how her cousin's suitor is manipulating every conversation.Fool's Gold is the fourth book of the Mysterious Powers series, exploring the institutions of Albion during and after the Great War. All of Celia Lake's Albion books exploring the magical community of the British Isles can be read in any order. (Though this book does directly refer to the events of Seven Sisters if you want to avoid spoilers for that book.)It is full of pigments and colour, the magic of banking, and a very bouncy dragon. Enjoy this charming romantic fantasy with a swirl of sex set in 1926 with a happily ever after ending!

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