While I loved the historical setting and the characters (most of them) with their schemes and individuality, and I was invested in the set-up, the history and plot in the beginning of the book (first 100+ pages), I felt that the book didn’t need to be this long altogether. royalists, Camille et al., must use their deception, cunning and knowledge in order to come out of this political power play alive.

Drawn into the fight between revolutionaries vs. When upon discovering the girl, the group discovers that she has a curious ability and it is clear it is not her “father” that has requested her back. On one of these excursions Camille (the lead of the group) and her team are tasked with the job of getting a girl out of the prison and give the girl back to her “father”. Royalists, the guillotine, and a band of skilled teenagers whose job it is to break people out of jail. It covered a historical period in France which I didn’t know much about: Revolutionaries vs. it died when rich men in charge forgot we’re human too.” ”The soul died long before the guillotine arrived in Paris.

Some things irked me and thus it does not qualify as exceptional. Decent read that I have neither strongly positive nor negative feelings about. But not so long as the battalion has something to say.ģ STARS. it died when rich men in charge forgot we’re human too.’Ī quartet of rebellious teenagers tries to make Paris a better place by freeing innocents from prison and lands themselves a new member: a girl that is pure electricity and wanted by several parties as a tool of war. ‘The soul died long before the guillotine arrived in Paris. The Illumicrate edition is so beautiful, though. The plot started out nicely and then kept plummeting and rising just about enough to make me not lose interest. In total, it does lack a certain grit I value in my books. I could recognize the well-worded dialogues just as much as the attempt at creating a diverse and entertaining narrative. They are fleshed out nicely and I felt comfortable with them pretty much almost immediately. Although merely an average read for me I'm confident younger readers would have a lot of fun with it, so this is still a recommendation for teenagersĬontinuing with its strengths, I'd say the book is worth reading for its many witty dialogues and intense characters. I really wish I had better things to say about this book but 3 days after finishing Dangerous Remedy I'm still as indifferent towards it as I was reading the last page.

This book is for you if… you're a younger reader with a nack for historical fantasy fiction.

Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn