Revolution

Meet Andi Alpers.  Her brother is dead.  Her mother is locked in a world of sorrow, and her absent father might as well be dead.  Ever since the loss of her brother, Andi is surviving the best she can.  She takes medicine for the depression, but nothing truly satiates the pain but music.  Though she’s capable, her grades start to fall, and the
school alerts her father.  He whisks her mother off to a psychiatric hospital and Andi to France, where he expects her to work on a thesis she must write to graduate.  It is the discovery of a diary written during the French Revolution and a boy she met playing her guitar near the Eiffel Tower that interests Andi much more than her paper.  Through Alex’s story of her affection for the royal family, specifically Louis Charles, readers get a first-hand account of the events of the French Revolution.  Through Alex and with some support along the way from Virgil and even possibly some adventures in time travel, Andi is finally able to cope with the loss of her brother, who looked strikingly similar to the young prince. I loved the story within a story aspect that was present with following Andi in present times and following Alex in the past through her diary.  The way the two stories came together in the end was a great ending.  It was a very unusual way to tell a story, but it sure captivated me.