BY JENNIFER DONNELLY
NARRATED BY EMILY JANICE CARD & EMMA BERING
THE DETAILS✎
❐ PARIS SETTING BOTH 1790'S AND PRESENT DAY-ISH❐ DUAL POV'S --ONE PRESENT (ANDI) & ONE PAST (ALEX)❐ A SENIOR THESIS PROJECT❐ FRENCH REVOLUTION❐ MUSICALLY INFLUENCED BOTH MODERN & CLASSICAL❐ TIME-TRAVELING OR JUST A REALLY VIVID DREAMSCAPE❐ LENGTH OF AUDIO ➯ 15 HOURS, 4 MINUTES❐ I LISTENED ON LIBBY THROUGH MY LIBRARY
MY REVIEW IN ONE SENTENCE ➯ A historical story immersed within a modern story with a dollop of romance, plenty of music references, time-travel, and one broken family trying to cope with the pain of losing someone they love.
The narration by Emily Janice Card & Emma Bering was very well performed. I did struggle sometimes with comprehending the french words and accents, but that's on me. It's funny though after I finished this and went to sleep, throughout my dreams I kept hearing french accents.
This started out slow...with a lot of inane teen drama and chatter...but once the MC goes to Paris with her Dad...things get a whole lot more interesting. It was like a history lesson on the French Revolution with a bonus of music history. I really enjoyed this aspect and even tried to look up the composer that she was doing her thesis on...but alas, I think he was made up.
There is some time-traveling of a sort, which for others could be a turn-off, but it really only enhanced the history aspect for me and I really liked it. Overall, I found this to be an entertaining story, and since the narration was so excellently performed I readily recommend the audio version...especially for those slow parts of the story...listening always makes this so much easier to power through than actual reading.
BREAKDOWN✎Narration ➯ 5 STARSPlot ➯ 4.3/5Characters ➯ 4/5The Feels ➯ 4.3/5Pacing ➯ 4/5Addictiveness ➯ 4.3/5Theme, Tone or Intensity ➯ 4.3/5Originality ➯ 5/5Flow (Writing Style/Ease of Listening) ➯ 4.2/5World-Building ➯ 4.3/5Ending ➯ 5/5SUMMATION ➯ 4¼ STARS
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