Hey guys,
I know I haven't posted in a while, but that's only because I had difficulties choosing what my next book should be. I even asked for recommendations but no one felt like sharing, so I chose to do what was the obvious thing and that was look through my own library. So, I came across Alexandre Dumas' Ange Pitou.
I was a fan of Dumas since perhaps I was 12 or 13 when I first read The Three Musketeers and the following sequels (I still remember how much I cried at the end of the last book when everyone died). After that I read the Count of Monte Cristo, which was equally great. And that's how I started buying whatever of Dumas' books I could find from second-hand shops, however somehow I never got around to read them.
Disclaimer: This review will be short and it won't contain any of the plot because otherwise it will be more than 5 pages long.
Ange Pitou, or Taking the Bastille, as it's known in English is actually part of a series telling the events of the French Revolution. This is the 3rd book out of 6.
The fact that I started the series from the middle was both disadvantage but it also made it more intriguing. There were a lot of scenes and characters which appeared from the previous books and Dumas didn't really make it clear what these secrets were, which if you read the previous books, you would know. That's why the minute I finished it I started reading the first one.
Now, about this one. There is so much to be said and yet I feel like whatever I say would be insufficient. Dumas follows the facts very closely, and I learned a lot about what led to the French Revolution and how it came to be. I never knew about the Women's March which played such a big role in it. On the other hand there were also some discrepancies: the biggest one was that the age of some characters was constantly changing; there was also a difference between the timeline in the novel and the actual events. Of course, this is not something that harms the experience so it can be overlooked.
I'm always amazed by the writing skills of Dumas, and how good he is at storytelling and peering into the human soul. He portrays Marie Antoinette perfectly. The queen and the woman. The relationship she had with the king, and the one she had with the men she actually loved was also done masterfully. The jealousy she experienced towards the wife of her lover, and how she was the one who brought them closer together. As I said everything was remarkable.
The one thing that I actually have a problem with is the end, and a certain death which was for one unnecessary and two completely out of the blue. A young girl of 17 doesn't just fall on the ground and die, because her lover says he has to go to his brother to avenge the death of their 3rd brother. It was ridiculous.
All in all I think for people who love historical fiction this series would be a treasure.
I know I haven't posted in a while, but that's only because I had difficulties choosing what my next book should be. I even asked for recommendations but no one felt like sharing, so I chose to do what was the obvious thing and that was look through my own library. So, I came across Alexandre Dumas' Ange Pitou.
Disclaimer: This review will be short and it won't contain any of the plot because otherwise it will be more than 5 pages long.
Ange Pitou, or Taking the Bastille, as it's known in English is actually part of a series telling the events of the French Revolution. This is the 3rd book out of 6.
The fact that I started the series from the middle was both disadvantage but it also made it more intriguing. There were a lot of scenes and characters which appeared from the previous books and Dumas didn't really make it clear what these secrets were, which if you read the previous books, you would know. That's why the minute I finished it I started reading the first one.
Now, about this one. There is so much to be said and yet I feel like whatever I say would be insufficient. Dumas follows the facts very closely, and I learned a lot about what led to the French Revolution and how it came to be. I never knew about the Women's March which played such a big role in it. On the other hand there were also some discrepancies: the biggest one was that the age of some characters was constantly changing; there was also a difference between the timeline in the novel and the actual events. Of course, this is not something that harms the experience so it can be overlooked.
I'm always amazed by the writing skills of Dumas, and how good he is at storytelling and peering into the human soul. He portrays Marie Antoinette perfectly. The queen and the woman. The relationship she had with the king, and the one she had with the men she actually loved was also done masterfully. The jealousy she experienced towards the wife of her lover, and how she was the one who brought them closer together. As I said everything was remarkable.
The one thing that I actually have a problem with is the end, and a certain death which was for one unnecessary and two completely out of the blue. A young girl of 17 doesn't just fall on the ground and die, because her lover says he has to go to his brother to avenge the death of their 3rd brother. It was ridiculous.
All in all I think for people who love historical fiction this series would be a treasure.
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