A review by miss_tricia
City of Darkness, City of Light by Marge Piercy

3.0

My one gripe with this fictionalized history has more to do with history than the book itself. The constantly revolving cast of characters had my head spinning. And while it's not a Russian novel with 14 names for each character, Pierce often does refer to the same character by both first and last name in the same paragraph, which slows me down quite a bit.

I feel like I learned something about the French Revolution, but mostly I got a better sense of how the revolution was a revolving door of governments killing off their predecesors. Nasty stuff.