Book Review
Title: Paris: A City of Fools (The Change #3)
Author: Guy Adams
Genre: YA/Action/Survival
Rating: ****
Review: After reading London: Orbital and The Queen of Coney Island I was beginning to realise that this series seems to be a companion series which is a bit disappointing as the previous two instalments were left unresolved. Paris: City of Fools revolves around Loïc and his friend Adrien who has been kidnapped.
We learn that Adrien is a ten-year-old boy that Loïc rescued after the Change and they live with many other survivors in the catacombs of Paris. We see how life in the catacombs is pretty good for the people living down there as they forage from the city and also grow fungi and other foods under the ground with the living dead. In addition to the creatures roaming the city, the group has to cope with the Impressionists which are creatures made of living paint that kill and kidnap people. In the latest raid while Loïc was doing a food run Adrien is one of the children that is taken by the Impressionists.
As the group managed to catch one of the Impressionist Loïc decides to question it for Adrien’s location. In order to get to Adrien, he releases the creature who takes Loïc to the place where they take the people they kidnap. During the journey to the Louvre, where the Impressionists live, Loïc manages to communicate with the creature and learns that they don’t eat the humans as they are too large, but he eventually sees for himself what happened to them. Loïc is reunited with Adrien but now they are trapped with the Impressionists and Loïc knows that the Impressionists are planning to trade the humans, but he doesn’t know who they are traded with or what they want in return.
After spending the night in the museum the humans are dragged away to be traded. Adrien, Gabi, and Loïc manage to escape in the chaos they caused but now the challenge is getting back into the catacombs without being caught again. In the end, City of Fools does reclaim some of the horrors that drew me in during London: Orbital but not on the same scale. While I would recommend this series for its world building and characters, however, if you are a fan of gore, I’d recommend book 1 but stop there.
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I received this review copy from NetGalley
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