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NORTHWEST TOWER is a dark YA fantasy about a girl named Mathilde who becomes an unwilling courtesan and falls in love with one of her fellow Tower companions. It’s a novel in verse and is a quick read, although it has some heavy content (about the same level as the early Throne of Glass books, or PG-13).
BLURB:
A novel in verse about faith, freedom, and finding love in the darkest of times.
In The Lost Girl of Goose Creek, Etta obsessively reads her favorite book about a girl named Mathilde over and over to maintain her sanity. This is author Claire Olivia Golden’s take on the story of Mathilde and can be read anytime in the Goose Creek Cycle.
Mathilde is content with her life as a peasant, tending the chickens on her family’s farm in Montfermeil. It may be the poorest province in Armentière, but she hopes to settle down and start a family with the girl she likes.
That is, until a countrywide famine forces her into servitude to save her family from starvation. She believes she’s going to the castle to be a chambermaid, but instead becomes an unwilling courtesan in the Northwest Tower.
Trapped in the Tower with seven others, Mathilde dreams of freedom. She finds companionship and eventually love with fellow courtesan Cécile, from the island province of Port au Pierrot. But life in the Tower is anything but idyllic and the country bordering Armentière is threatening war. The life Mathilde has built could come crumbling down at any moment.
CONTENT WARNINGS: This book contains sex and human trafficking (including of minors), sex with dubious consent, on-page sexual situations (both consensual and nonconsensual), suicidal ideation, suicide, pregnancy, sickness (including vomiting), death, past trauma, and possibly more. I know this is a long list, but nothing is excessively graphic.
ARCs go out early next month!