Book Title: Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Topic: Guilt, French Revolution
Thoughts: This is
another book that flips back and forth between current times and the past. The novel begins with Andi and her mother self-destructing
from Andi’s younger brother’s death. When Andi’s mother is placed in a mental institution,
she has to travel to Paris to be
with her father, a Nobel geneticist, working on a secret project. Andi finds a diary written during the French
Revolution by Alexandrine, another 17-year old.
As Andi reads from the diary, we are transported back in time.
Andi uses drugs to help her face each day without her
brother, and when she meets Virgil in Paris, I hoped that he would be able to
help her feel again and let others in to help her deal with her pain so that
she will not want to commit suicide.
Other
than the time travel chapters that I thought didn't fit with the rest of the novel, this is worth
reading as both girls have their own revolution to fight to save themselves.
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