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A review by rattletheshelves
Alone in Paris by Ashley Earley
2.0
Read for the #aroundtheworldin100days ( #atwi100d ) challenge - France
There clearly must be something about this book because despite how ridiculous it was I couldn't put it down and read it in one sitting. And it was ridiculous and it kept getting more absurd towards the end - how everyone in France seemed to be American, even a policeman was called Kevin, how everyone follows American laws/way of living (driving cars everywhere, eating freaking chocolate chip cookies in cafe (good luck finding these outside of Starbucks), driving cars when you are 17.5))... I could go one and on. Also, how come that even though basically half of the book was a 20-questions game, Taylor never asked Nathan the most obvious question - how come he and his family live in France??? And don't get me started on the surreal way that Taylor overcomes her trauma. Or the way the book ends.
In other words, it's not the next Anna and the Frenc Kiss, far from it. It's just another example of American-author-attempts-and-utterly-fails-at-European-setting but, hey, at least it was entertaining.
There clearly must be something about this book because despite how ridiculous it was I couldn't put it down and read it in one sitting. And it was ridiculous and it kept getting more absurd towards the end - how everyone in France seemed to be American, even a policeman was called Kevin, how everyone follows American laws/way of living (driving cars everywhere, eating freaking chocolate chip cookies in cafe (good luck finding these outside of Starbucks), driving cars when you are 17.5))... I could go one and on. Also, how come that even though basically half of the book was a 20-questions game, Taylor never asked Nathan the most obvious question - how come he and his family live in France??? And don't get me started on the surreal way that Taylor overcomes her trauma. Or the way the book ends.
In other words, it's not the next Anna and the Frenc Kiss, far from it. It's just another example of American-author-attempts-and-utterly-fails-at-European-setting but, hey, at least it was entertaining.