The case is from the time of the French Revolution and it contains Alexandrine's diary. Andi is staying with friends of her fathers and comes across an old guitar case she discovers that she can open a secret compartment in the case with a key that once belonged to her brother. It is Andi's trip to Paris that introduces us to the second main character. When Andi's father gets a call from her prestigious high school about Andi's slipping grades, he steps in and places his ex-wife in a psychiatric hospital and takes Andi to Paris with him so she can concentrate on her thesis which she needs to complete in order to graduate. Andi blames herself, she feels her father blames her and Andi's mother is barely holding on to life and reality. Her life and that of her family have been torn apart by the death of her younger brother, Truman.
Andi is from present day New York, she is extremely intelligent and musically gifted. The book revolves entirely around the two main female characters who are completely believable, I felt as though I knew them so well by the end of the book. However, Revolution is not just good, it is brilliant, as with her first book I think it will easily cross over into an adult audience. Their paths collide as Andi unlocks a route into the past which might just hold the key to reconciling herself with her own history- and her future.Ī romantic, utterly engrossing story of two girls, two boys and the heart-wrenching thread that binds them together across the centuries.īestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly has written an incredibly evocative portrait of lives torn apart by grief and mended by love.I only recently read Jennifer Donnelly's first book, A Gathering Light so I knew she was good. Alexandrine lives in Paris and is desperately trying to save a young boy from the ravages of the French Revolution. Andi lives in present-day New York and is dealing with the aftermath of her brother's accidental death. Two girls, united in a quest to save a young prince, but separated by over two hundred years.
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