This unfortunately, meant that the world building was lacking and I was left with an idea of the grand jeu but no way of explaining it.īridget Collins does write with a particularly descriptive style which I typically like. As you only understand this in such an abstract fashion, it was all a tad murky and I was lost and confused at times. The aim of the grand jeu is that students learn to weave the most intricate version to compete against one another. However, you never really get an explanation other than it is quite a complicated game a mix between maths and music, religion and all of life thrown in. I haven't read the Glass Bead Game nor do I know anything about it so I was hoping that the grand jeu would be explained. The Betrayals is heavily based on “The Glass Bead Game” by Hermann Hesse. A game which students study endlessly to understand. Montverre prides itself on the grand jeu. After a scandal within the government, Léo is forced back to Montverre, his former school, to continue his studies. This story passes through time by moving back and forth between the years of Léo as a student and as the, now disgraced, Minister for Culture. Set in a high society landscape, we follow three different storylines the Rat, Clare Dryden or Magister Ludi and two perspectives of our main protagonist Léo Martin, as his younger and his older self.
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