The Revolution (Chameleon Dawn Book 1)

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DJ has tiny closed tear top edge. Now in protective sleeve. Fantastic wrap around art work by Harrison! Fanielle holds the key to triumph, but only if she can outwit those desperate to silence her forever. Despite this, rumors of the Lost Dauphin's escape were numerous, as were the people who stepped up to claim the throne at the end of the Revolution. Andi becomes more interested in this story when she discovers the diary of Alexandrine Paradis, a girl who played with and watched over the prince in her youth and later became a hunted figure nicknamed The Green Man because she continued to set off fireworks all around the city for the prince to see from the tower, so he would not lose hope.

During her library adventures in research and exploring around Paris, Andi meets Virgil, a taxi driver, and they begin an odd courtship of musical discourse over the phone after she accidentally leaves her iPod with him after making music together at a bar. All the while, the music she plays on her guitar and the talks she and Virgil have keep her hoping for a better future, despite her fights with her father and her emotional distress over memories the diary evokes of her own brother.

After her frantic attempt to get up to the top of the Eiffel Tower to commit suicide, Virgil drags her with him down to a closed off part of the catacombs of Paris , where the bones of the thousands of dead were laid to rest centuries ago, to play at a party. When the police come in to break things up and everyone is running everywhere, Andi is suddenly transported to the 18th century and everyone thinks she is Alex. Her savior is the subject of her thesis, Malherbeau, and her confused babblings are attributed to the crack in the head she took while stumbling in the darkness of the catacombs, until she starts playing her guitar in public at the base of the tower for Louis-Charles to hear and is seriously heckled by those present.

Andi carries out the rest of Alex's mission, knowing that the heart in the jar that her father is testing is indeed Louis-Charles, and that he will die in just a few nights. In exchange for his help, she gives Malherbeau her iPod, and he listens to Beethoven play music he has not finished composing yet, as well as music from more recent artists such as Radiohead. Andi returns to her own century wondering if all that had happened was true or some strange effect from her medication and the knock to the head. She also returns with a sense of acceptance of all that has happened.

The French revolution-y part of Made it to page Back in the old days I would probably finish this and find it 3 star satisfactory assuming the good bits are just around the corner. But now I am more confident in my reading tastes and prefer to spend my time reading something that beings intrinsic enjoyment to me the whole way along.

View all 34 comments. This book is undoubtedly one of the most creative I have ever read. Revolution is a genre-bending masterpiece with two likable heroines and a twisting plot that never stops moving. By genre-bending, I truly mean genre-bending. This book is one part contemporary, one part suspense, one part speculative fiction, one part scifi, and one part historical fiction.

It doesn't matter what genre it is - it matters just how great the blend is. The plot is fascinating, with twists and turns and story threa This book is undoubtedly one of the most creative I have ever read. The plot is fascinating, with twists and turns and story threads that are only pulled together towards the end. In the end, however, perhaps I'd class this as a contemporary, because the focus here is on character development.

There are two heroines here, present-day Andi and s teenager Alexandrine. These characters are both so developed and interesting in their own ways. Alexandrine is ambitious and driven; she goes out for what she wants, even if she has to break a few necks along the way. Andi is incredibly angsty for a good deal of the book, yet her arc is so well thought out that it's hard not to empathize with her and love her. Andi has severe depression, which she combats through her music. That aspect was great. I did take issue with the slight anti-medication tilt this book took; with the severity of Andi's depression, medication shouldn't be shameful.

However, I loved that she's never really "cured. It's quite hard to explain exactly what about this book is so brilliant. I suppose it's best summed up in that I have never read anything like this before, and I doubt I ever will again. Blog Goodreads Twitter Youtube Originally reviewed on my blog, Books from Bleh to Basically Amazing. Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly is a vivid and captivating book filled with feeling.

If you haven't yet read anything by Donnelly, I seriously think you are missing out, and I strongly recommend you fix that. Revolution is the story of Andi, an intelligent, talented girl who should have her whole future ahead of her. She's always been smart, has done well in school and is a gifted musician- able to play guitar and write her Originally reviewed on my blog, Books from Bleh to Basically Amazing. She's always been smart, has done well in school and is a gifted musician- able to play guitar and write her own music.

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But, her younger brother died in an accident about a year ago and Andi blames herself. Overwhelmed by grief and guilt, Andi loses focus on everything but her music. Her mom is immobilized by grief, scarcely able to function, and her dad, who has never been around much, retreats even further. When her father forces her to accompany him to Paris, as a way to rescue her slipping grades, Andi is angry and can think of nothing more than getting back to New York.

But then she discovers a journal, hidden in a guitar case that might date back to the French Revolution, and her world changes. I was blown away by this book. The writing is intense and powerful, and Andi's pain practically screamed from the pages. Her depression and detachment from life was so real, and so perfectly portrayed that I found myself experiencing everything right along with her. But even more than just experiencing it with her, Andi was so well written, and so real a character to me that I found myself knowing how Andi would feel or react to a situation as it happened, before we, as readers, were given her reaction.

I don't think I've ever felt such a strong connection to a character before, but it was thrilling. The only thing that really reaches Andi is her music and this is where she goes when life becomes too much for her, often playing her guitar until her fingers bleed. She is constantly listening to music, both classical and contemporary and she lets that heal the outward hurt. Nothing can touch that empty place inside her, but she seems content to let that fester, although that 'contentment' might be more a side effect of the anti-depressants she eats like candy than anything real on her part.

It was powerful watching Andi struggle between life and death, both metaphorically and realistically. There is more than one aborted suicide attempt, and they start right at the beginning of the story.

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She isn't sure if she wants to die, but she also isn't sure she wants to continue living. Her experiences in Paris help to open her eyes to life, and help her to understand that although her grief will always be a part of her, it does not have to completely define her. Both the journal she discovers of a young girl living through the French Revolution, and Virgil, a boy she met while joining a local band for a few songs help to bring Andi back from the depression she's been drowning in.

I liked the sections with the journal. It was well written and engaging, but Alexandrine was never a real person for me the way she was for Andi, and the way Andi was for me. I don't mean to be derogatory toward them at all, because they are an essential part of the story, and still beautifully written. But, they were always sections of a journal, fascinating, but removed from me. I doubt I would have paid as much attention to this if my connection to Andi hadn't been so strong. Although he doesn't have a lot of actual face time throughout the story, he is in no way a minor character, but neither is he the focus of the story, which was nice.

I'm a little bored with the books right now that seem to be all about the romance, even when other points should be more important. Virgil was great and I enjoyed watching their relationship develop. It was pretty realistic. They met, and are attracted to each other. Andi does think about him a lot over the next few days, but isn't obsessed, and doesn't believe herself to be in love.

He's just on her mind, because it's a new-almost relationship. This book was almost perfect. The only reason I'm not calling this book Basically Amazing is because of climax. I won't spoil it for you. I had my thoughts on what that might mean when I picked up the book, and was a little disappointed to realize which of my theories was correct.

It didn't work quite as well for me as the rest of the story. However, Andi is one of the strongest characters I've ever come across, and this is most definitely a book I'm going to have on my 'keep forever' shelf. It deserves to be read again and again, because I imagine there will be new things waiting for me every time.

View all 17 comments. I hate it I decided stop read it. Revolution is an incredible story of a troubled girl and how she copes with her dysfunctional family as well as a much deeper history. Absolutely amazing and definitely worth reading. This is a hard one to review. There were parts of Revolution that I liked and there were parts I had a hard time looking past.

I liked her ability to take 2 different stories, -one from present day and one from the 18th century French revolution- and blend them together seamlessly and keep the flow and the int This is a hard one to review. I liked her ability to take 2 different stories, -one from present day and one from the 18th century French revolution- and blend them together seamlessly and keep the flow and the interest going.

I am going to have Norwegian Wood stuck in my head at least for another week. I really like historical fiction, and so I thought that element would really make this story unique and fun. I could not get past the fact that Andi; the female protagonist in the modern-day story, came off as self-centered, whiny, and just plain bitchy. There is this really bizarre plot twist at the end that left me more irritated than anything else.

In the end, I cannot bring myself to give this more than 3 stars. Too bad too, because I thought it had potential. Such a cool premise, such terrible execution. The main character was a raging bitch. A summary of this girl and her characteristics: Jesus Christ the girl was a bitch. Her brother died because she took off to get high with a guy she liked. And now she blames herself for his death, as well she should, but it still does not take away from the fact that this girl is still a raging bitch with super first world problems.

Her mother has to be committed to an institution because she cannot cope with the grief of losing a child - and yet her daughter, our wonderful protagonist, is contemplating killing herself. Gee, girl who claims to love her mother, ever consider what that would do to your mother? Her "emotionally distant" father, who has left her family don't blame him, I'd leave them, too , returns and whisks our main character off to Paris, which, of course, she hates.

How dare her rich father take her on vacation to Paris? How dare he demand she do her schoolwork and try to accomplish something with all the opportunities that were handed to her? Opportunities that the evil poors don't deserve. There was a lot of demonizing of the poor in this book - especially in the sections about the Revolution. Yes, Andi understands the paaaaaaain of those poor rich douchebags who got themselves guillotined because they were too stupid to realize that their unsustainable world was crumbling before their eyes.

The author makes it worse by having Andi, the protagonist, slum with a group of poors in Paris, one of whom, a genius rapper yes, he's such a genius that we're forced to read pages of his eye-roll inducing lyrics , turns out to be her love interest. They have zero chemistry, and Virgil, the rapper, has zero personality. He's into our main character.

He drives a taxi. He's from a bad read: That's pretty much it. He does nothing but exist to be kind to our narrator, who spends all of her time being a raging bitch. The only interesting character was Alexandrine, who is from the past. But even she goes into "raging entitled bitch" territory eventually. This book was just I will give the author another chance with the book "A Northern Light" which is supposed to be better.

This is actually a very hard review for me to write. Or, more precisely — it is actually very hard for me to make up my mind about this book. The French Revolution looked at from a different side, from the perspective of someone who was close to the king — loyal, but not for political reasons. Alexandrines st This is actually a very hard review for me to write. If you like personal accounts of historic events, this should be for you!

I am not a historic fiction fan myself, but this story was just great. It has definitely made me interested in reading more about this revolution that has had such a great effect on our world as a whole, but especially on the people of France. Definitely a contender for my fictional crushes list ;. Not perfect, not happily-ever-after happy, but just right.

The parts that played in the Paris of the late s had a very real feel to them as well. I could sense the desperation and the hope the people felt. I could imagine the dirty streets and the bloody raids. I could see the splendour and gold of the royal palaces on one side, and the misery and hunger the common people lived in on the other. I mean, I got it, she was hurt and she felt guilty.

This got a lot better as the story progressed, but the first couple of chapters, she was actually very hard to take. And it totally changed the tone of the story. It felt weirdly out of place and I was reluctant to even read it. On a total account, I have to say that the positive aspects outweigh the negative ones. Despite its size, I finished the book rather quickly.

When I put it down, I was always looking forward to picking it up again with the exception of the before mentioned chapters at the end. I would recommend it for history fans and history sceptics like me alike. All in all, I would say I loved the book. Still, some of the stuff that happened towards the end leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

View all 12 comments. I'm unsure and a little reluctant to pick it up at the moment, though. And it's a lot more on the historic fiction side than th Me, too! And it's a lot more on the historic fiction side than this one, I think. That scares me a little Joanne An agenda was snuck in!

Dec 13, Andi Alpers, a troubled Brooklyn teen, is always one step away from the edge. The only thing keeping her going over is her love of music, but even that doesn't seem enough at times.

Two years ago her younger brother, the glue keeping her family together, died. Now her mother, a talented French painter, is suffering from a psychotic break down, and her father, a workaholic scientist, refuses to acknowledge his old family while he lives a new life. Andi is content with flunking out of her prestigi Andi Alpers, a troubled Brooklyn teen, is always one step away from the edge.

Andi is content with flunking out of her prestigious liberal high school, but her father, in a rare burst of parental concern, forces her to come with him to Paris so she can focus on working on a project that might save her grade. Her father is called to Paris because a colleague of his, a famous historian, needs his help in identifying a shriveled up heart encased in crystal that might just belong to the young Louis XVII, the son of King Louis XVI, who was guillotined in the French Revolution.

While shifting through some artifacts, Andi discovers the long-hidden journal of Alexandrine, an aspiring actress and companion to young Louis, who is struggling to save herself and her charge. Whilst reading this diary, the fates of the two young women are woven together, and Andi will come to discover that internal revolutions are just as affecting as external ones. I loved this book. The writing was beautiful, lyrical, and intricate. Andi was intriguing and relatable. Sometimes her constant negative attitude, especially towards the beginning, could become bothersome, but she was extremely interesting.

Her sarcastic comments were often funny, and she had a lot going on underneath the surface. Her feelings, as well as her love for music, seemed to transcend the page. I loved Alexandrine too. Although she was in the book less than Andi, her role in it was just as vital. One thing I loved about this story was how everything connected. I could mentally see the puzzle pieces coming together, and it was a thrill to watch everything unfold. Also, I learned a buttload about the French Revolution, but it never seemed like I was reading a text book. I can tell Ms.

Donnelly did her research, and it was very in-depth and well-done. The only thing I did not like were the hints of the supernatural. To explain myself without giving away to much of the plot, I will say that this book is a lot like the movie Happy Feet. I do not mean to allude that there were dancing penguins in the streets of Paris. But, you know how towards the end of the movie, the plot does a complete , and the film is no longer about cute tap-dancing birds, but rather some heavy-handed environmental message? This book is kind of like that. Towards the end, it took a really sharp turn, and I'm not sure whether what happened was real or not.

I mean, I guess it worked, but it shook me out of the story for a little bit. That's what kept me from giving this novel 5 stars. Anyway, I recommend this book. I recommend it to fans of A Northern Light. I recommend it to fans of historical-fiction. I recommend it to those interested in a more personal look at the French Revolution. I recommend it to music lovers. And I recommend it for anyone looking for a satisfying, thought-provoking read.

An awesome read that will stay with me. I have a feeling it will help me when my history class studies the French Revolution next month. This is the sort of book that makes me go "WOW! Being a book lover , I have liked some books, loved some of them.

Every now and then comes along a book that makes me realize why I love reading so much. Revolution , for me , is that sort of a book. Revolution is about two young girls, living two centuries apart - Andi and Alexandrine. Andi is a high school senior at a super exclusive school. On the surface she has a perfec This is the sort of book that makes me go "WOW!

On the surface she has a perfect life - money, world-famous father, life of comfort and wealth. But the reality is different. She is still tortured by the guilt of having been responsible for her brother's death. Alexandrine, on the other hand, is living in the time of the French Revolution, one of the bloodiest , most violent times in French history. She is a spy and living on the tenterhook of danger. When Andi discovers Alexandrine's diary, it starts a journey to self-revelation.

It doesn't take long to realize that the "revolution" described is not the French revolution , despite it playing a major role in the story. The revolution is about changing oneself, its about self-discovery see the quote below. Andi's only comfort is music. Its through the music that she discovers the diary. And thus starts the "revolution , as two lost young girls , living two hundred years apart connect through music and the words in the diary. The description of music, its beauty and the effect it has on Andi is breathtaking.

I like music but have never been so passionate about it. But while reading this book, I could almost feel the emotional and spiritual connection that Andi had with music. The writing is absolutely beautiful. It made the story, the characters , the setting come alive. When a book has paragraphs and more paragraphs, lines and more lines, that I can read and re-read and even remember , that's when I know that the book is going to stay with me. And believe me, Donnelly's writing guarantees that you will go back and re-read some lines again and again.

Yet everytime you read it, they will still touch you and move you the same way. I felt so deeply for both the characters. I got so deeply involved - I could feel their fear, hurt , pain. I was blown away by the details and description of the French Revolution. Jennifer Donnelly truly makes history come alive with powerful words that makes the reader feel the horror, see the violence unfolding in front of their eyes. I can imagine the amount of research and work that must have gone into not only the details of the French Revolution , but also the music.

One of the most powerful points that this book makes is that its never too late to discover oneself, its never too late for anything, no matter how much life lets you down. Revolution is incredibly sad and yet incredibly beautiful. Despite the grim atmosphere throughout the book, there is also hope and optimism -there is always a ray of sunshine at the end of the storm.

I had a major test the next day and I am usually obsessively cautious about avoiding the last minute panic. But while I read this book, I actually forgot about the test and yet didn't regret it a bit.

Revolution

There are not enough words to describe this book. Just read it and find it out yourself. Revolution is an unforgettable book totally worth your time.

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The one inside, I mean. All you can ever change is yourself. Revolution is an exquisitely written book that is worth reading and remembering. To every person , no matter genre you read. View all 4 comments. She is failing school and failing life. Since the death of her brother, all she cares about is music. Taken to Paris by her estranged father, she makes a discovery there that could transform everything. Hidden in the compartment of an old guitar case is a lost diary from Revolutionary France.

I had high expectations with this book. I thought the synopsis on the ba Andi is broken. I thought the synopsis on the back of this novel sounded interesting but as soon as I was introduced to suicidal Andi and her obnoxious drug addicted friends I knew I was in for a long read! Around page 60 or so the novel moved to Paris. I thought things would pick up then but I was wrong. There was just another hundred pages of Andi moaning about how her life was so unfair. Then we got to Alexandrine's diary entries. These were interesting at first but soon they became tedious and annoying.

Alexandrine's narrative sounded far too modern for someone who lived during the 's should have sounded. Alexandrine and the other 18th Century characters dialogue just sounded so forced and wrong and the diary entries were so boring! At times during the diary entries it felt like I was reading a history text book rather than a fiction novel.

The last pages of this novel were completely absurd and far-fetched. The time travelling twist in the plot was very confusing and irritating. Was it all in Andi's head due to the amount of drugs she's been taking? Or is this a time-travel novel? I had no idea! It was such an abrupt and strange shift in the plot. I honestly think the author must have been high on drugs herself when she wrote this part of the book. The novel was very depressing and it wasn't particularly well-written either.

I didn't enjoy it at all. Finishing this novel was torturous. The only reason I finished this novel was for a couple of reading challenges I'm doing. If not for that I would have threw the book away. The only good thing I can say about it is that it was well-researched. The author obviously spent a lot of time researching Music and the French Revolution.

None of the characters in this book were very well developed. The main character of Andi was so extremely unlikeable that I didn't care whether she lived or died. I prefer strong female characters in the novels I read. Andi was just far too weak and whiny. She was just a nasty, selfish, stupid, anti-social, spoiled bitch. I really didn't like any of them. They were all one dimensional and flat. In the acknowledgments at the end of the book the author thanks her mother for stopping her from throwing the first draft of this novel into a lake.

I think that was bad parenting! I don't know how this awful book managed to get passed the editing stage and get published at all. It really is truly terrible. Don't bother reading it. You'll only regret it. View all 3 comments. That got me thinking Was it true? Are we really satisfied when a book or a story ends in tragedy?

When the guy doesn't get the girl or when things end in the worst possible way. He is more famous for his classics like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and King Lear than his As you like it, All is well that ends well and many of his ot 4. He is more famous for his classics like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and King Lear than his As you like it, All is well that ends well and many of his other plays were the good defeats evil and the characters have a happy ending. When a book is happy it will not stay with you and torture you for the rest of your life.

It gives you fleeting moments of happiness and just fades away into some dark recess of your mind. Tragedy makes you think about what could have gone differently? Tragedy makes you hope, believe that things could have gone differently only if So it would come as no surprise that this book which is centred around a very disturbed young women set in a very tragic time in history aka the French revolution managed to impress me.

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When you are a lowly clergy you look upon the nobility with their vainness and vanity, as the most despicable, heartless and cruel human beings that has ever walked this earth. Those who dab themselves in perfume and eat out of a silver platter while your family has barely enough to survive, no one could blame them if you decide to rise up. When you are royalty on the other hand, born and raised like one is it surprising that your viewpoint cannot go beyond the four walls that surround you. Are you to be blamed for the way you were raised and for getting the things others don't get.

In this book you have a character who is on the verge of ending her life because of a tragedy she could not prevent. She blames herself on the basis of all the "if only's" that she can think of and wish for a different outcome every day. This very same young woman discovers a diary left behind by a girl roughly her same age who lived and died in the year in the middle of the French revolution which contains details of her acts of defiance for one small child, she loved more than anything whom revolution marked as a pariah and condemned to a tragic death.

See them not as the monarchs that brought about the downfall of France but as a family trying to stay alive and together. Louis-Charles as an innocent 8 year old boy who was born in the wrong family, at the wrong time. Can you fault any of them for there actions? Is their no end to the revolution? Does characters like Robespierre, Hitler, Napoleon or Mussolini bring about revolutions or is it people like us?

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