When successful actress Mia discovers that her husband has been cheating on her once again, she flees to Paris to stay with her childhood friend, Daisy. Snooping on Daisy's computer she discovers a French online dating agency, and uploads her profile. Meanwhile across town, friends of Paul, an American writer, have uploaded his profile without him knowing. Soon Mia and Paul find themselves together on a blind date... Both insist that they are not looking for romance yet as their paths cross time and time again it becomes increasingly difficult for them to remain 'just friends'.
I'm really, really hoping that something was lost in translation here because I simply cannot see from reading P.S. From Paris how Marc Levy is France's most loved author. I didn't enjoy the style of writing and the plot, as well as being quite unbelievable, simply didn't seem to flow. The characters weren't fleshed out enough to feel real and the situations and dialogues they found themselves in were all highly unlikely.
Nothing made sense to me in this story, from the friendships of the main characters, through their immature and emotionally clouded behaviour.I'm sorry but real people simply do not behave as the characters here did. Everything in this book fell flat for me, the attempts at humour simply weren't funny and I couldn't even find any charm in the descriptions of Parisian life or food.
I only stuck with the book to the end as it was a quick read but even so it took me some time as I was only reading it finish it rather than for enjoyment!
This was a very disappointing book for me, one of the worst that I have read this year.
Not recommended.
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