Date Finished: 21 October 2013
Rating: 5*
Before I begin, I just want to point out that it took me
over a month to finish this book. Literally. I was reading it on the bus on the
way home from camp. I have witnesses, who had to remind me of this fact when I
brought it to school on Monday, still only having read a hundred pages.
I’m losing my touch.
Okay. Now we’re all just going to ignore that I ever said
that and disguise our gasps of horror so that I can carry on with this review.
If it doesn’t take me a month to write it *sob*.
Anyway… I'll keep it short and sweet for once.
Michele Moran wrote a stunningly realistic re-telling of the
French Revolution. Told from the perspective of Marie, a young woman practicing
as a wax modeler under the influence of her uncle, it artfully draws the reader
into a web of nail-biting suspense and excitement. Moran’s writing style is
incredibly effective in the way that it tugged me so far into Marie’s world
that I had to take a deep breath every time I re-entered reality to remind myself
that I didn’t belong inside the novel. When Marie got employed as the king’s
sister’s wax modeling tutor, I shared her honor, and when her friends got
involved in the revolution, I shared her mixture of anxiety and horror. When
the novel finished, I felt both satisfied and empty, as though I had lost a
part of myself to Marie’s world, but I am not complaining.
Overall incredibly moving, and yet without soppiness and
awful clichés, Madame Tussaud’s was empowering and inspirational, and has
definitely made my list of highly recommended historical fiction novels.
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Think I need to read this.....
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