“Beasts of Paris” by Stef Penney

“The Beasts of Paris” is a vivid rendering of the cost of war

If there's one thing novels set in France during the 19th century do really well, it's beautifully describe suffering, misery and human endurance over the course of hundreds and hundreds of well-written pages. That's exactly what we got when we picked up "The Beasts of Paris," Stef Penney's new novel set during the Siege of Paris in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War.