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# Valour and Vanity (Glamourist Histories Book 4)

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			        		&quot;Combining history, magic and adventure, the book balances emotional depth with buoyant storytelling.&quot;&#x2015;Kirkus Reviews
						    	
					    	
						
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        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        		
	        		
						
			        		MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL was the 2008 recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and a Hugo winner for her story &quot;For Want of a Nail.&quot; Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov&apos;s, and several Year&apos;s Best anthologies. She also writes the Glamourist History series, which began with Shades of Milk and Honey. A professional puppeteer and voice actor, she spent five years touring nationally with puppet theaters. She lives in Chicago with her husband Rob and many manual typewriters.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    SO much better than the rest of the series!
  

*by H***E on May 20, 2014*









  
  
    Having just finished Valour and Vanity, I find myself wishing that the rest of the books in the Glamourist Histories had been heist novels! This book is head and shoulders above the other three in the series, both in terms of character development (and likability), and of plot, not to mention the evocation of time and place.What most impressed me in this book was how Kowal managed to balance the intrigue and suspense of a heist story with the unsettlingly intimate and personal portrayal of a marriage in an all-too-common crisis. I suspect I am not the only wife to feel that I've had the exact same argument as the Vincents, almost word for word. Had that struggle made up the majority of the novel, it would have been too heavy-handed, but when interwoven with the mystery and action of a pirate attack, spy activities, and a quest for revenge, it makes for an exciting and compelling novel.In short, each Glamourist book has been markedly better than the last, so I can't wait for the final installment!
  


### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Exciting and engaing
  

*by C***A on May 26, 2014*









  
  
    If you are not reading this series by Kowal, this book- the fourth- is a fine place to start. Its tone is a lot different than that of the previous novels, though- they were more "Jane Austen with magic", and this one is "if Austen wrote a heist/intrigue novel..."We get to see much more of Jane's and Vincent's relationship, and how they are learning to work together and rely on each other, albeit through struggles both within the relationship and caused by outside forces. Fot this reason, it seemed more intimate to me than the previous novels in the series, much as I loved them.Also, the plot is more obviously exciting! Pirates! Swindles! Reversals of fortune! Revenge! Secret motivations and spying!  and even Lord Byron! Kowal did a brilliant job of winding the very personal and intimate into the more carefully convoluted and eventful plot, with each reflecting on the other in many ways. Wonderfully wrought!The other characters come alive, too, both the Good Guys and the not. I especially loved the portrayals of the nuns. Having attended a Catholic women's college, I learned great respect and admiration for nuns, and these are GREAT nuns, each very distinct.I also appreciated that the glamour- the magic- was described more precisely, giving me a better idea of what it can and cannot do.This was an excellent novel that kept me up a few times reading when I ought to have been asleep- and that's rare for me these days.Highly recommended, for a perspective on the Regency era and for those who would love a very unique magical system in fantasy, or who have been reading the series. I think this one is my favorite in it thus far.
  


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    Glamour in Venice
  

*by D***N on December 9, 2015*









  
  
    As this book opens Jane and Vincent are in Trieste as part of her sister Melody’s honeymoon trip with her new husband. They’ve been traveling together with the newlyweds as well as Jane and Melody’s parents and her new husband’s parents, but in Trieste the others are planning to travel overland to Prague, while Jane and Vincent take ship for Venice. Only along the way their ship is boarded by pirates and they only escape slavery by the charity of a Venetian banker, Signor Sanuto, who pays their ransom and later takes them in when an officious clerk tries to refuse them entry into Venice because the pirates have taken their papers. But not all is what it seems, and for some months they’re living in poverty on Murano Island, eking out a precarious living by Jane’s teaching music and glamour to girls at a convent school and Vincent working as a street magician. Lord Byron pops in and out of the story as well. An-other very entertaining installment of this series.
  


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