I know I need to go back and read her other work. But I couldn’t put the book down and find myself wanting more. Loved it! Loved it! Loved it! Of course it was written for me, a French major who studied for a year the French Revolution and Napoleon and loves time travel, especially to Paris. Revolution is a stunningly crafted work of historical fiction in which Andi Alpers, a gifted musician in a prestigious private Brooklyn high school, grapples with devastating grief over the death of her brother, the instability of her mother, and rage at her absent father. I couldn’t put this book down I read it straight through until dawn. Revolution is a gripping story that will captivate young adult readers, and many adult ones as well. - Lanora Hurley, Next Chapter Sarah Todd, Children’s Book Worldĭonnelly deftly weaves the two stories of the girls’ lives until they entwine as one and the historical depictions of Revolutionary France are so well realized the reader can almost smell the dirty streets and feel the fear. This beautiful novel deserves its own fireworks display, and if Revolution had a soundtrack, I would put it on repeat. Revolution is an epic story about truth and forgiveness, about music and history, about fraternity and liberty, about family and blood…. Revolution is not to be missed this tour de force from Jennifer Donnelly is sure to cement her as a star writer in the YA market. - Suzanna Hermans-Oblong Books This book is simply brilliant a page-turner with an amazingly complicated protagonist and a pitch-perfect mix of the contemporary with the historical. (Oct.How much did I love Jennifer Donnelly’s Revolution? So much that I can’t even describe it. Musicians, especially, will appreciate the thread about the debt rock owes to the classics. Donnelly's story goes on too long, but packs in worthy stuff. The story then alternates between Andi's suicidal urges and Alexandrine's efforts to save the prince. Bunking at the home of a renowned historian, Andi finds a diary that relates the last days of Alexandrine, companion to (you guessed it) the doomed prince. Andi is ordered to work on her senior thesis about a (fictional) French composer. When the school notifies her mostly absent scientist father that she's flirting with expulsion, he takes Andi to Paris for Christmas break, where he's testing DNA to see if a preserved heart really belonged to the doomed son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
She finds solace only when playing guitar. Andi Alpers is popping antidepressants and flunking out of her Brooklyn prep school, grieving over her younger brother's death. Donnelly (A Northern Light) melds contemporary teen drama with well-researched historical fiction and a dollop of time travel for a hefty read that mostly succeeds.
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