Being involved in the politics leads to Sovay's brother and father to have gone missing. Her family is very involved in the politics of England and France. What would you do if your family was in trouble but because of who you were, and you couldn't help them? Sovay is a young girl living during the time of the French Revolution. But once you get to know them all, be ready for a lot of twists and turns in this unpredictable must-read! Read more It is sometimes hard to follow and there are a lot of characters to keep track of. Rees winds a very suspenseful tale with Sovay's journey. Nearly standing before the guillotine herself, Sovay tries to save her father, brother, and the meaning of freedom. She soon finds out that Dysart's influence extends deep into France, where her father is sick, and where Sovay and her brother are hiding because they can’t return to England. What starts out innocently enough, soon escalates into something more dire when she robs important documents to save her father from the guillotine and learns secrets that put her under the watchful eye of the influential Sir Robert Dysart. When Sovay receives news of her father's arrest for treason, she is persuaded by close friends, and soon gets tangled into the political mess of her day.
In the beginning of the book, Sovay dresses up in her brother's clothes, wraps a handkerchief around her face, and rides to the highway, where she robs a stage coach for revenge and to break her boredom. She lost her mother at a very young age, and when her brother and father go missing, she learns she can't trust anyone - not even the one she was betrothed to. Sovay is a young woman of dark beauty living in England during the French Revolution. I'm not a big fan of historical fiction, but "Sovay", by Celia Rees, caught my attention from the very first page.
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