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Reviewed by Christian Sia for Readers' Favorite
Jean Thesquare’s second book, Re: Claim: A Sultryverse Story, introduces eighteen-year-old Parisian heiress Manon de Rochemaure, who fights off an attempted assault from a classmate, only to watch the elite school side with him. She is exiled to Le Rolle Academy in Switzerland under the pretense of health reasons. But Manon turns her humiliation into something far more dangerous: a scheme. She develops a relationship with Anaïs Diop, a principled, brilliant girl and gifted hacker who makes her feel safe and who shows her a hidden consent-based club beneath Montmartre. When Manon discovers evidence of blackmail material involving abuses recorded on a private island, she rallies allies, including roommate Beatrix, insider Lucian, and hacker Noa. They reinvent themselves as an anonymous collective known as Les Louves to pull off a Geneva vault heist and a jaw-dropping New York auction. Can they turn the predators’ machinery against them?
The prose is elegant and effortlessly quotable, with dialogue that grounds the interactions in realistic scenes. Jean Thesquare’s exploration of female power is at the center of the story, and contemporary readers will find the blackmail relevant and resonant. Re: Claim masterfully blends heist thriller, sapphic romance, and coming-of-age into a mesmerizing story that happens in three acts: violation, conspiracy, and triumphant exposure. The characters are fun to follow, quirky, hilarious in their acts, yet flawed in humanly possible ways. The tension builds from page to page, centered on the characters' vow to teach the perverted elite one simple lesson: “Everything may be asked,” and “Nothing may be taken.” Read the content notes first, and you'll find a gripping feminist page-turner.
