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After the storm of the century rips apart New Orleans, sixteen-year-old Adele Le Moyne and her father are among the first to return. Adele wants nothing more than to resume her normal life, but with the silent city resembling a war zone, a parish-wide curfew, and mysterious new faces lurking in the abandoned French Quarter, normal needs a new definition.

Strange events—even for New Orleans—lead Adele to an attic that has been sealed for three hundred years. The chaos she accidentally unleashes threatens not only her but also everyone she knows.

Caught in a hurricane of myths and monsters, Adele must untangle a web of magic that weaves the climbing murder rate back to her own ancestors. But who can you trust in a city where everyone has secrets and keeping them can mean life or death? Unless…you’re immortal.

Revised edition This edition of The Casquette Girls includes editorial revisions.

The Casquette Girls eBook Alys Arden

Product details File Size 2538 KB Print Length 576 pages Publisher Skyscape (November 17, 2015) Publication Date November 17, 2015 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B010SXYWO8

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The Casquette Girls eBook Alys Arden Reviews

And I do mean experience. Alys Arden's The Casquette Girls is a fabulous creation. I loved so much about it that I just read it again. I loved the inventive story. I adored the characters—which includes NOLA. She charmingly details the angst and struggles of being youthful or the new one in a group—especially if you are young. So much was so moving—the effects of the Storm, love, longing and loss.

I won't say much about the story—which I absolutely loved, but rather want to characterize aspects of Arden's work including her wonderful writing.

For example, there was a lot of wonderful dry humor through-out—lines like this delighted me "I considered mentioning my new Sacred Heart status [school] in hopes that knowing someone as lowly as me would be attending her school might cause her head to explode, thus ending the conversation…" And, "Once we made it through the parlor of leeches…" And, "You’ll have my daughter and my car. I have everything to worry about.”

She is cultural and literary “In the words of the great Monsieur Baudelaire, ‘The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.’”

Her work is colorful—the principal characters are marvelous creations and then there are the side dishes, many with exuberant and wonderful personalities.

NOLA and post-math of the Storm itself are personalities, her descriptions of life after the Storm so poignant and moving—" Tears welled as I looked around. Every single thing the Joneses owned had been destroyed. The furniture was scattered upside down, chunks of drywall vomited from the walls, and the fan hung dangerously low from the living room ceiling. Nearly the entire ground level had been submerged." And, "Most had dried into crisp leaves, while others had pulped into giant lumps of papiermâché. Most of the melodies and lyrics had washed away from the papers, but I hoped they were still stuck in the head of Alphonse Jones and not lost forever." And often tales of the aftermath are told with her characteristic humor too. We really feel so much of what trying to endure this was like through Arden's brilliance and touches both dramatic and quotidian.

There are philosophical considerations "The world needs more boundary pushers, not more boundary creators.” And, “Sometimes, being an artist is about forgetting the constructs society has been instilling in you since birth.” And even greater than these, what do you do or sacrifice for the greater good. What is the most right of two choices? And what to do when you must make a choice and neither of them are?

She is wonderfully introspective "It must be how people felt when they found God—processing everything after that moment in a brand new way."

And I so appreciated the brilliance of her writing. Moments and lines like this—
"By some miracle the house was still standing, but it appeared so fragile that the weight of a resting bird might cause the whole thing to collapse." A lovely piece of writing on its own, but then we get to experience in a very significant way how weighty even a resting bird might be.

I thrill to lines like this "A mild undercurrent of energy flowed through my body a subdued state of electricity, as if I’d been continually licking a battery."

And this "Happiness overwhelmed me as I searched for the line where the real stars ended and their reflections on the black waves began."

"Isaac had this way of making everything he touched beautiful."

I suspect that Alys Arden has this way of making everything she touches wonderful in so very many ways.
I finished it last night and it's 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

It's got that southern supernatural party vibe of The Originals. If you didn't want to visit New Orleans before, you will after reading this book. But the relationships and bonds are so much stronger. It reminds me of the friendships and sacrifices of The Vampire Diaries. There's also that effortless romance that reminds me so much of Twilight however the Heroine is a strong, independent young woman who can save herself; not the damsel in distress type at all. All of this mixed in with a grit that reminds me of True Blood. I had to preorder the next one before I even finished it. You really should read it 💜
I really have to congratulate the author for this book's sure touch and likable, realistic voice.

I started out by slipping into this book like meeting an old friend -- to begin with, this is the story of a girl and her dad, from an old New Orleans family, returning home to the French Quarter a few months after the Storm to End All Storms. And it's fascinating -- not written as a denunciation, or a dirge, but rather as the description of how optimistic people with deep roots made it work, without electricity, incoming food, gas pumps, hospitals, morgues, most of the city's first responders, the internet, and most of the population of their city. I'd been aware that the Federal response to Katrina was shamefully slow and half-hearted; this novel doesn't whine or point fingers, but it does make you aware of what that meant on the ground.

As I started to get whiffs of the other themes, I had momentary impulses just to run away, but I couldn't bear to let go of the story. I mean, let's face it, there's a lot of junk-food writing these days in the subgenres of paranormal, paranormal romance, and vampires, especially in the YA market. And this book also adds elements that are simply hard to do well, like using the first person for the whole novel, multiple ancestors as intrinsic parts of the plot, and flashbacks to a 300-year-old diary.

But every thread, every word stays fresh, and true to the heroine's voice, and works beautifully to add more and more layers to the action and the suspense. The grand finale scene on Halloween night is spectacular -- gripping, vivid, terrifying, exhilarating, and exactly the right crescendo to the book's drama. And you genuinely don't know how it's going to resolve itself until it's done. Without at all cutting into the heroine's relaxed, likeable, intelligent young voice, this is a disciplined and complex piece of writing, done very, very well indeed.