Summing up a fantasy novel from the Nantes publishing house Atalante is a bit like deflowering Hermione in Harry Potter. If the book in question is La Vestale du Calix, by Anne Larue, her first novel in the genre, then there are likely to be even greater crimes committed. [...] So there are two ways of reading Vestale. One way is letting oneself be carried along, revisiting one's past (the main characters are female, the secondary are male or animals, but it's possible to keep on track, and projecting oneself into a maybe that is still possible. Revelling in the little discoveries, experiencing the liveliness of a serial-writer, but also the surreptitious pastiche of standardised chick lit....