Language: PG (0 swears, 0 “f” + French swears); Mature Content: PG13; Violence: PG
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Gilles takes no thought when he accepts his friend’s bet to kiss the woman waiting in his boss’s office – not even when Gilles realizes that the woman is a royalist, on the opposing side of the French Revolution than him. The woman surprises him when she reveals herself to be his boss’s daughter, and Gilles practically runs away due to embarrassment. Driven to apologize to the royalist, Gilles starts to wonder if the eyes he can’t seem to forget haunt him for reasons beyond chagrin and guilt.
Character arcs are always important to stories, but Gilles’s story focuses on that struggle of changing one’s character. Once he realizes that the way he is acting contradicts what he believes to be right, Gilles has to decide how he wants to move forward and who he wants to become – as a brother, as a son, as a friend, as a revolutionist, as a man. The decisions that he has to make are not easy, and readers will ache with him even as they hope for the same courage to change as Gilles does. The mature content rating is for innuendos.
Reviewer: Carolina Herdegen
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