Review: I Loved It
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 14, 2011
posted on my blog[...]In the beginning I wasn't very excited, but after reading the first two chapters I realized I missed reading a story like this. It reminded me of The DaVinci Code which I read back in 2006 and of those awesome adventure video games I used to play in high school.Meet Maya: half African American - the other half she doesn't really know what it is herself - who grew up in foster care and never knew her real parents. When her stepmother dyed, her only chance to find out something about them dyed with her.Maya is now a reference librarian at Capital College and newly dumped.She embarks all alone on a trip to Paris , "The Town of Love"- one she must have shared with her 1 year boyfriend, before he left her to return to his ex-wife.  Out of remorse, the guy attached the 2 tickets for the voyage to the break-up e-mail, already paid.After weeping and feeling sorry for herself for two months, she decides to go to Paris after all and finds the strength to make fun of her situation: "And besides, who am I to stand in the way of two idiots in love? Heavy emphasis on the idiots part."Less than a day after arriving in Paris she is accused of a brutal murder, almost beaten to death by a psychopath in the Gardens of Versailles and saved by the hot, green eyed French journalist Simon Girard.Simon spent the last two years in Hong Kong, recovering form his own heartbreak, but now he has to find out what happened to his brother, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances.They decide to help each other, and in their search for answers, they find the existence of a secret society, hunt a missing crucifix that holds the key to eternal life and run one step ahead of a killer who'll do anything to silence them both.The book is beautifully written, it has many descriptions of Paris' places and you'll feel like you're there as well. That's how good they are!I'd have loved to read more about Maya and Simon's relationship and I felt that he confided too quickly in her...but this isn't actually a romance novel, and the story is very fast paced. So this could not be a flaw after all, just my wish.If you are a fan of adventure/mystery novels you'll love The Paris Secret.