A review by 4saradouglas
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

2.0

I was surprisingly not a big fan. I really enjoyed A Northern Light, but this one fell flat. Parts of it seemed so forced and heavy-handed. I don't like getting beaten over the head with metaphors and allusions. I also feel like the handling of all the history could have gone better. If you read this and already know quite a lot about France at that time period you'll be bored to tears by all the history and explanations written in. If you are not that familiar with the time period then all of the names and places will just be overwhelming. From the description of the book I thought the two girls' stories would overlap a lot more, but that part turned out to be just a chapter or so at the end. Kind of disappointed.