Review: Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

Revolutionby Jennifer Donnelly
Publication Date: October 12, 2010Delacorte Books496p

SYNOPSIS: BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is upon a edge. Shes indignant during her father for leaving, indignant during her mother for not being means to cope, as well as unhappy by a detriment of her younger brother, Truman. Rage as well as pique have been destroying her. And shes about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights many prestigious in isolation school when her father intervenes. Now Andi contingency attend with him to Paris for winter break.
PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over dual centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark upon a Paris stage, though a fateful encounter with a cursed prince of France cast her in a comfortless role she didnt wantand couldnt escape.
Two girls, dual centuries apart. One never meaningful a other. But when Andi finds Alexandrines diary, she recognizes something in her words as well as is altered to a point of obsession. Theres joy as well as daze for Andi in a journals very old pagesuntil, upon a midnight tour through a catacombs of Paris, Alexandrines words transcend paper as well as time, as well as a past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.
Jennifer Donnelly, author of a award-winning novel A Northern Light, artfully weaves dual girls stories in to a single memorable comment of life, loss, as well as fast love. Revolution spans centuries as well as vividly depicts a almighty struggles of a human heart.
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Andi is a single pissed off teenager. The guilt she feels over a death of her beloved little brother, joined with an absent father as well as a mother whose pique has consumed her has done Andi bitter, resentful a! s well a s distrusting. She seeks solace in her music as well as mostly plays until her fingers drain in an try to immigrate a pain. Shes ticked off her circle of friends as well as is upon a verge of not graduating high school as well as when her father insists she come with him to Paris to work upon her senior thesis.
Andis father is a Noble-prize winning scientist as well as travels to Paris to revisit his friend who owns a warehouse full of artifacts from a French Revolution together with a heart that could have possibly belonged to Prince Louis-Charles, a mislaid son of Louis XVI as well as Marie Antoinette. As a personality in genetics his charge is to perform DNA contrast in order to prove or disprove a theory. Also among a artifacts is an 18th century guitar, in that Andi finds to enclose a hidden cell with a diary as well as miniature mural inside. Intrigued, Andi starts to examination a diary that once belonged to Alexandrine Paradis, a young girl who lived during a French Revolution.
Alex, a 17 year old who performs upon a streets of Paris with her family, becomes a messenger to Louis-Charles after a royal family spots her behaving as well as she creates a unhappy little prince laugh. Initially, Alex sees this as a stepping mill upon a road to a single day turn an actress, though in a time she spends with a dauphin she comes to adore Louis-Charles like a brother. When he is locked away in a tower after a executions of his parents, she will risk her hold up to remind him he is not alone as well as not forgotten.
Though they lived over dual hundred years apart, Andi as well as Alexs lives will transcend time as well as be forever altered by a other.
Seriously, we cannot suggest this book enough! Revolution is an amazing book that we wont want to finish as well as will stay with we even after we do. we hated putting it down as well as raced back to it each spare moment we could find. we loved, loved, desired Andi as well as actually miss her now that Ive finished. She totally remi! nded me of a girl in a film Juno, with a smart-ass as well as sarcastic, yet intelligent retorts.
For sure, Revolution is a single of my a one preferred reads of a year for 2010 as well as Jennifer Donnelly, a single of a many unusual writers we have ever read. The perfect approach she intertwined a fates of a dual girls as well as a blending of past as well as benefaction have for an memorable read.
A a one preferred allude to was tough with this book since each line is so damn good, though we desired this a single done by Andi about her attitude: Shittys my default setting.
My a one preferred allude to from Alex is her describing since she loves acting in plays, that reminds me of since we adore to examination Historical Fiction: And since of them I, who was zero as well as nobody, was a Prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a black of Egypt.
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FTC DISCLOSURE: we perceived this book from a publisher in return for a fair as well as honest review.
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