Speculative fiction icon John Crowley calls J. M. Sidorova’s The Age of Ice “marvelous.” Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club, hails it as “everything you could want in a novel.” Now, in this special ebook-only story, Sidorova returns to the world of The Age of Ice—her captivating blend of fiction, history, and fantasy—offering a mesmerizing new tale of the power of cold.
In April 1814, just days after Napoléon’s defeat by the coalition of the European powers, Prince Alexander Velitzyn, the hero of The Age of Ice, is drifting around Paris, coming to grips with the brutality of the war and his role in it. Unbeknownst to him, Alexander strolls through the same passageways as another human being just like him.
Hidden behind costume and makeup, twenty-two-year-old Cherie performs a daily show in the Palais-Royal, a noble palace where shopkeepers and showgirls have set up all manner of risqué commerce—boutiques, gambling rooms, and pubs designed to satiate every desire of the senses. Cherie, though, is an unusual act. Her feat relies on physics, not trickery.
She is a young woman making do with the fate she’s been dealt—not just the terror of revolution, but her own, crippling coldness. Then, one evening, a wounded young soldier named Julien comes to her room, and what happens threatens to upend Cherie’s notion of the world and herself.
The Colors of Cold is a beautifully imagined glimpse into two lives trapped by frost—metaphorical and literal—set amid one of the most stirring moments in the history of Paris.
I Dominate the Entertainment Industry with My Styling Skills
130 parts Complete Mature
130 parts
Complete
Mature
NOT MY OWN
Relate Name : 我靠妆造手艺卷死娱乐圈
Author : 晨曦岛屿
Chapter : 124 + 5 Extra (Completed)
Qi Yanning, the former chief of the Yongan Dynasty's Imperial Wardrobe, was renowned in the capital for his unmatched skills in clothing and makeup.
After an unexpected death, he finds himself reincarnated as a contestant in a talent show, only to be hated by the entire internet?
After absorbing the original owner's memories, the chief smiled coldly, promptly withdrew from the show, and instead joined another talent show as a stylist.
This show was notorious, from contestants to production team, for its bizarre aesthetics and eye-burning makeup, earning it the sarcastic title "Ugly 101." But from the moment Qi Yanning joined, things began to change.
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