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When God Was a Rabbit
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1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream....
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Gustave Flaubert
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Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest novelists, whose work...
Ross (3284 KP) rated The Change 3: Paris: A City of Fools in Books
Nov 2, 2020
Loic, the main PoV character, is a former street child who has quite easily adapted to life under the streets, scavenging for food where he can. The main threat they face is the Impressionists, a race of paint-monsters who roam the streets and tunnels rounding up the people they find.
This book is more focused on people who have made a life for themselves following The Change (still a mystery, but safe to assume that weird things can happen now), rather than those struggling to come to terms with it.
It is quite an exciting tale of rescue, bargaining and trying to evade some very strange, but very Parisian, enemies who are never as they seem.
This book, for once, is fairly self-contained and has an ending and was a good short read.

