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A review by drakoulis
Charming Young Man by Eliot Schrefer
4.0
Eliot Schrefer completely changes genre and prose by moving from The Darkness Outside Us to Charming Young Man.
A historical fiction set in the late 19th century Paris, inspired by the life a real person: young pianist Léon Delafosse.
Eliot's worldbuilding is once again flawless and immerses the reader in the social structure of the era, the constant self-doubt a poor outsider is feeling and how foreign the treacherous game of the high class feels to him.
Léon's thoughts are always with Felix, his best friend from the countryside and his experiences in cosmopolitan Paris are the door he needed to be opened for him.
It was a nice read overall, much more quiet and less groundbreaking than TDOU and with a bit of an open ending I dare say, I would prefer a more definitive one.
A historical fiction set in the late 19th century Paris, inspired by the life a real person: young pianist Léon Delafosse.
Eliot's worldbuilding is once again flawless and immerses the reader in the social structure of the era, the constant self-doubt a poor outsider is feeling and how foreign the treacherous game of the high class feels to him.
Léon's thoughts are always with Felix, his best friend from the countryside and his experiences in cosmopolitan Paris are the door he needed to be opened for him.
It was a nice read overall, much more quiet and less groundbreaking than TDOU and with a bit of an open ending I dare say, I would prefer a more definitive one.