"The Scarlet Pimpernel"

This book was recommended to be by a friend! I was told that this book was a lot like The Count of Monte Cristo, but I find them very different! The similarities are that both books are adventurous, suspenseful, romantic, and you literally can't put the book down, everything to recommend a book for! :D Written by Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel takes place during the French Revolution.

-A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to they eye and ear they seem nought but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.-

Doesn't that first sentence just foretell a great story?! The main characters are Marguerite and Percy Blakeney, a married couple. Nearly from the very beginning you will read the mysteries surrounding the mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, who is a man that against all odds saves people from sure death. From vile hate and revenge Chauvelin gives Marguerite the "either-or" choice, that involves her beloved brother Armand and the Scarlet Pimpernel. Giving way she enables him to learn vital information. The reason Chauvelin has this revenge is because he wants to see every aristocrat guillotined, while the Scarlet Pimpernel saves their lives. Desperately she goes to France in hope that she will have time to warn the Scarlet Pimpernel. Because everything ties in with something during this book this is all that I will be able to tell you without spoiling it. Here is something that I do need to tell you before I am done with this review: The Scarlet Pimpernel has quite a bit of cursing in it. Other than this it has nothing else to un-recommend it.

Btw someone help me! I don't know what movie of this book I should watch! If you have seen any of the movies please comment and tell me whether it was good or not. Thanks