Heartless (French edition)

by Marissa Meyer, Guillaume Fournier (Translator)

Overview

Après les Chroniques Lunaires, le nouveau roman de Marissa Meyer centré sur la Reine de Coeur d' Alice au pays des merveilles !
La Reine de Coeur n'a pas toujours été la terrible souveraine d'Alice au pays des merveilles. Avant d'être couronnée, elle s'appelait Catherine et rêvait de devenir la plus grande pâtissière du royaume. Mais le sort a décidé de lui jouer un vilain tour : le Roi de Coeur veut absolument l'épouser et les parents de Catherine, très ambitieux, placent de gros espoirs en cette union.
Catherine, elle, veut vivre librement et aimer celui qui fait battre son coeur : Badin, le bouffon du Roi.
Malheureusement au pays des merveilles, où s'entrechoquent magie, folie et monstres, les contes n'ont pas tous une fin heureuse...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782823857818
Publisher:	Univers Poche
Publication date:	10/05/2017
Sold by:	EDITIS - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	429
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years
Language:	French

About the Author

Les Chroniques Lunaires, Marissa Meyer a été éditrice pendant cinq ans et a écrit de nombreuses fanfictions pour la série Sailor Moon sous le pseudonyme d'Alicia Blade.
Elle vit aux États-Unis.

Editorial Reviews

09/12/2016
Before she was the Queen of Hearts in Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, she was Catherine, the spirited daughter of royalty, destined to wed the King of Hearts but determined to set up shop as a baker with her best friend and longtime maid. In this whimsical standalone tale, readers follow Catherine’s simultaneous courtships with the jovial king and his court joker, Jest, whose earnest boyishness makes him far more charming than his royal boss. Caught between her own desires and her mother’s stop-at-nothing goal to make her daughter queen, Catherine must decide how much she will risk for a future with Jest. Meyer’s Wonderland is a fun and more refined version of Carroll’s, and readers will enjoy the obvious parallels. Jest and Catherine have a playfully clandestine relationship, but it’s a slow build-up to the inevitable clash between what Catherine wants and what reality demands. Meyer’s worldbuilding is extensive and impressive, and the persistent threat of a destructive Jabberwock lends tension, but the story lacks the high-stakes danger that fans of the Lunar Chronicles have come to expect. Ages 12–up. Agent: Jill Grinberg, Jill Grinberg Literary Management. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for Heartless:

#1 New York Times bestseller

“In Heartless, the nonsense that is Wonderland gets a reverential makeover, full of heart and its own idiosyncratic character.” —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and After Alice

“What Gregory Maguire did for the Wicked Witch, Meyer does for Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts, tracing her arc from a teen with dreams of owning a bakery into a murderous madwoman.” —People magazine

“Will make readers grin like the Cheshire Cat.” —Common Sense Media

"Jest and Catherine have a playfully clandestine relationship. . . . Meyer’s worldbuilding is extensive and impressive." —Publishers Weekly

“The author’s best fantasy yet. . . . Meyer has woven all the elements of darkness and light, fate and free will, and love and hatred into an unforgettable story of the evolution of the Red Queen from a young girl who dreamed of true love and freedom to a madwoman best remembered for the phrase 'Off with his head.' If you only read one fractured fairy tale this year, make it Heartless. A must-have title.” —School Library Journal, starred review

Praise for Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles series:

#1 New York Times Bestselling Series
USA Today Bestseller
Publishers Weekly Bestseller
National IndieBestseller

“A mash-up of fairy tales and science fiction . . . a cross between Cinderella, The Terminator,and Star Wars.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Prince Charming among the cyborgs.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Terrific.” —Los Angeles Times

“A binge-reading treat.” —MTV

“Marissa Meyer rocks the fractured fairy tale genre.” —The Seattle Times

“Epic . . . Breathtaking.” —Teen Vogue

“Utterly thrilling.” —Publishers Weekly

“Wonderfully addictive.” —Buzzfeed

From the Publisher

★ 09/01/2016
Gr 8 Up—The author's best fantasy yet. In her inspired reimagining of Lewis Carroll's inimitable adventures in Wonderland, Meyer has explored the world that existed before Alice fell down the rabbit hole. All Lady Catherine wants to do is open her own bakery with the help of her maid. She has no wish to wear beautiful dresses or go to balls, and she certainly has no desire whatsoever to marry the good-natured, bumbling, childlike king. But that seems to be her fate until she meets the king's handsome and mysterious new joker, Jest. Although his mission is to steal Lady Catherine's heart and take it to the White Queen, who would use it to overcome the enemies of her realm, he falls in love with her instead. Employing all the best aspects of Carroll's book—the White Rabbit, croquet with hedgehogs and flamingos, suits of cards, and the Jabberwocky—Meyer has woven all the elements of darkness and light, fate and free will, and love and hatred into an unforgettable story of the evolution of the Red Queen from a young girl who dreamed of true love and freedom to a madwoman best remembered for the phrase Off with his head. VERDICT If you only read one fractured fairy tale this year, make it Heartless. A must-have title.—Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK

School Library Journal