The Little Bookshop on the Seine (Little Paris Collection)

I liked the Ltle Boookshop on the Seine because i had just come back from Paris and visited Shakespeare & Co. Where i have wanted to go forever. So it was fun to revisit the area. It was a sweet little romance which is not what i usually read. Writing ok. Just liked it for the setting

Sweet simple story. Not complicated, not sexy. I gave it 4 stars because I had just visited Paris and it brought back the experience. The flow of the city was apparent in the book (all the high tourist spots) and the food and drink (coffee, wine, cheese, bakery goods,small cafes). the story allows you to relive it all.

This is a good escape read. Not much depth. Sarah has a problem which is repeated over and over...she is a dreamer and cannot be assertive and she misses her picture perfect lover who travels too much. She takes a chance on a trip to Paris and misses her friends. Repeat and repeat and repeat, There is the difficult employee and the dreamer and the super chic one with an all too obvious secret and the writer with the sorrowful eyes. who all remain in their stereotypes to the happy ending. It is a really good visit to Paris and a look into some of its non tourist attractions. Some excessively so. The Eiffel Tower and the Seine river are mentioned nearly 500 times in this little book it seems. It is all neatly wrapped up in a pretty package with tinsel and peppermint in a Christmas finale. I dare you to read this and not say "O come on." at least 12 times before the ending.

I loved this book! Sarah is a truly relatable character and you can't help getting caught up in her adventure in the city of love! It took me back to my own trip to Paris and everything I loved about it!

Rebecca Raisin has done it again. In her Gingerbread Cafe series, she created memorable characters that drew you into their world. Taking Sarah out of Ashford and placing her in Paris makes for a memorable story line. The quite book mouse finds herself in tossed into the busy world and culture of Paris. It is nothing she could have imagined. Rebecca manages to capture the feelings of being a foreigner thrust into the mix of a big city. She lets the reader really feel the emotions of Sarah and experience the growth that Sarah goes through. Sarah manages to leave her American touch on this little piece​ of Paris as well. Add in some new memorable characters like TJ, Beatrice, Luiz and Oceane. Then there is Anouk. I look forward to more on her. Like with Rebecca's past books, these new characters speak to the reader and draw you in. You want to know their stories and get to know them better. This is a great start to her Paris Series.

The book begins with an outlandish premise, but that can be excused if what follows is an interesting tale - well told. Sadly, there are glimpses of a great idea lost in a miasma of trite, syrupy dialogue and stereotypical characters. Our heroine is vapid and immature at the beginning, middle, and end despite the heroine saying she has developed self confidence. Her romantic interest is a velvet-tongued douche named Ridge. That sentence is probably all I needed to say for this whole review, but the store wanted 20 words. Their chemistry is nonexistent - frankly, I thought she was better suited to Luiz, the French writer whom she spends time with, developing an insipid subplot. The conflict between her allegiance to Ridge and her intellectual connection with Luiz might have saved an otherwise torturous story, if there had been an intellectual connection. The book read like bad fan fiction about Paris bookshops by someone who never visited Paris or a bookshop but saw a tv show about it once. It needed an editor for simple grammar, style, geography, and continuity or to simply reject it.