I just finished reading it last night (fun Saturday night), and it turned out to be painfully awful. As I mentioned before, what started out as amusing quickly degenerated into offensive. I had been hoping to be mildly entertained (and was, for about 300 pages), but I finished with a sick feeling. Wow. It not only espouses the royalist cause, but it slanders Robespierre in the most outrageous way possible...Donnelly essentially draws a ridiculously heavy-handed parallel between the historical Robespierre and a schizophrenic man named Maximilien who is responsible for the death of the modern-day protagonist's brother, who is a double for Louis-Charles. Yes.
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Date: 2011-11-06 07:51 pm (UTC)