🎧Now estranged from her husband, Vincent has agreed to see Cillian again at their son‘s wedding the following summer, but Loup introduces new complications. Soon they begin an intense affair, and somewhere between dinners made together, cigarettes smoked in the moonlight, hazy evenings in nightclubs, and long, starry walks along the Seine, Vincent feels herself loosening and blossoming.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pick9-7-22: My 88th finished book of 2022! This book is really a love letter to Paris. I adore books set in Paris. Vincent, a jewelry maker, has found out her husband of 24 years has been lying their whole marriage about something big. So she leaves him and moves to Paris. She teaches at the local museum, makes friends and falls for a younger guy. Some of her choices bothered me but her love for Paris, art, music & literature won me over.
pickI loved this book!! I had seen so many good reviews and I‘m so glad I decided to read it. I found it to be a very beautiful book!
panI run our local B&N‘s book club. With that said…if I didn‘t run it I would not have read it. I would‘ve DNF if I could. I liked nothing about this book. I had high hopes. I don‘t know if it‘s her writing style which was hard for me to read. Or if it was the characters? Whatever it is I wasn‘t a fan. #bookspin #thebigjunereadathon #travelthroughbooks #parisfrance @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick
pickThis is the third book I have read from Leesa Cross-Smith and I am 100% in for any book she writes in the future. Her writing is simple, engaging and unforgettable. This is a slow burn of a book, but oh so satisfying.
Half-Blown Rose: A Novel | 
so-so