Review: Love in the City of Lights
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 1, 2014
Can I say I loved it, and leave it at that?Probably not.  Emma Brooks is an American living in Paris.  She's made it her home in the last eight years, loves her daughter, and loves her job as managing director at a corporate recruiting firm.  Everything is going well until her boss announces that their company is merging with an American one, and that one of the Americans will be getting the promotion her boss had promised her.Emma is the one in charge of picking Cole Dorset up at the airport and things go from bad to worse when she shows up late, making Cole late for his meeting with the board of directors.  After starting off on such a bad foot, all Emma wants to do is avoid Cole, but she's been assigned as his cultural liaison.  Will Emma and Cole be able to work past their initial first impressions to help their company succeed, avoid corporate espionage, and maybe even find love in the city of lights?I'm the type of person that ends of skimming descriptions when they get too wordy, but I fell in love with the setting in Paris Connection.  I felt like I had enough information to understand what it was like in Paris, but not so much that my eyes glazed over.  Cerella Sechrist made me want to be there!I also enjoyed the corporate story line, especially when the team went on a team building retreat.  Oh the trust exercises!The relationship between Cole and Emma was sweet and plausible.  It wasn't an instant relationship, but one that developed over time, filled with tension.  I kept waiting for their coworkers to call them on their feelings for each other, because they were so obvious.  I also loved Cole's relationship with Emma's daughter.  He obviously loved her, and not just her mother.Throw in a bit of a mystery with some corporate espionage, and we had a sweet, but slightly suspenseful book.  I highly recommend it!Content: CleanDisclosure: I got this book free from NetGalley.com in exchange for an honest review.