Reading this book was almost as much fun as sitting at a small French cafe having Pain au chocolate and a cafe creme. Delicious! I hope we have more Paul and Mia adventures

P.S. From Paris was a fun and quick read. There were parts of the storyline that seemed to move pretty quickly for my taste. For the first quarter of the book, I thought I would end up disliking it. I think I was more surprised that Paul wasn't more mad at Mia for lying about who she really was, especially when he said that he hated dishonesty. I guess it was all relative since "Kyong" lied, but for good cause, and Mia lied but he loved her for who she was. Overall, I ended up enjoying the book and I would read other books by this author.

A lovely, feel good, romantic story. Mia wants to escape her current celebrity lifestyle and reinvent herself to find herself. On the way she meets a troubled writer who wants to meet the woman he's in love with and be famous in his own countries. As Mia helps him, they slowly fall in love. French food, fun, Korean highlights. The path doesn't run smoothly. Enjoyed this book.

A sweet, light read, P.S. From Paris is a lovely, romantic trip to Paris, just the ticket for a dark, dreary afternoon.
Mia, a successful actress who has just finished a movie with her co-star husband, realizes he is having an affair. Heartbroken, she decides to stay with her best friend in Paris for an indefinite period of time.
Paul, an American author who has lived in Paris for the last 7 years, is an introspective, shy man, writing at night and seemingly lonely.
The 2 meet under unusual circumstances and after some bumps in the road, form a deep friendship. It's an appealing story with a satisfying ending.
Thank you Netgalley and AmazonCrossing for the eARC.

The description blurb does not do this book justice. I picked it up on a whim and am very glad that I did. It's not the sluggish, slow-winding romance that you get from most books labeled as such. It has a quick, excitable pace to it, like a city itself, and the conversations are snappy and fun. I loved the inner dialogue of both protagonists and the way each is accused of mumbling out loud. I found both David and Mia to be relatable but also with their own mysterious quirkiness that makes you want to read more about them. Also, the scene that I suspected would be the end of the book wasn't so I was thrilled that the author continued to delve into this quasi-friendship and give a truly satisfying ending. My only complaint is that the first couple chapters were not as strong as the rest of the novel. I look forward to reading more of this author though.

Note: I received a free Kindle edition via NetGalley for an honest review. I would like to thank AmazonCrossing and the author Marc Levy for the opportunity to do so.

I'm going to be upfront and personal here. I am a dyed in the wool Francophile. I get giddy at all things French. Anything to do with France and I'm pretty well sold on the concept. I follow bloggers from France, I buy photography books with photos from France, I dream of the day I can visit the country and I even own salt and pepper shaking in the form of the Eiffel Tower. (Yes, I really do and they are glorious.) So to learn that Marc Levy is a French writer who has written a romance novel that I get to review seems almost too good to be true. I was pretty well in love with it before I've even read the opening lines.

This story is told from two main protagonists’ points of view; Mia and Paul. And there are inherent complications in the romantic situation where Mia and Paul are involved. Both of them are tangled up with other people romantically. We have Mia, who is a successful British actress married to a chump who is having an affair with the co-star and we have Paul, an American writer who has taken refuge in Paris because he found the fame of writing a best seller too much to cope with whose girlfriend Kyong lives in Seoul. But these prior romantic situations do cause problems. Mia’s husband wants to be forgiven for his bad behaviour and taken back and Kyong appears to be holding Paul at arm’s length when he makes a trip to South Korea.

This is a lovely romance story that avoids the dreaded insta-love situation; in fact, love isn’t mentioned until the very end of the novel. The love story unfolds under the guise of friendship, because Mia and Paul appear to want to ignore the fact they are attracted to each other. There is a great supporting cast of characters in the form of friends who watch with amusement as they see the romance developing. There are charming situations where mayhem unfolds, such as a night at the Opera House resulting in a possible legal situation and times in which one person thinks the other person is lying about facts about themselves and it turns out to be misunderstandings and there are texting conversations that feel adolescent in pace and fervour but are sweet. The city of Paris plays a great supporting actress role for the book, where we are taken on walks through the city and see some of the sights that make a Francophile sigh with delight.

I wanted Mia and Paul to end up together, although there were times when it didn’t appear to be likely. The times when Mia and Paul realise that they do have feelings for one another and how it is played out are what romantic dreams are made of. Levy is absolutely brilliant at writing snappy dialogue between characters, but one issue I had was that he seems to forget to show us, the reader, that there is more than a conversation happening. For example in one scene we follow a conversation in which Mia and Paul are walking along a street, only we don’t know that until Paul is pulling Mia away from the path of an oncoming car and telling her to watch herself. It just came out of nowhere; I had no idea that they were walking as they were talking. It was odd. And it happens more than once in the book. We are privy to the thoughts of both Mia and Paul and it includes some rather amusing inner monologues but because there is no differentiation between the type the thoughts can become jumbled and confusing on reading. One person’s inner thoughts are followed immediately by the thoughts of the other, making for a muddle of words.

Much like French films are very different from English films in style and focus that take time to become accustomed to and then appreciated, this romance is written in what must be a very French method. Paris was delightful as always and I would definitely read more of Levy’s other works.

P.S. from Paris by Marc Levy is a sweet romance with an American writer and a British actress as expats in Paris. Mia is taking a time out from her life and hides in Paris with an old friend. Paul is a writer who left America after being uncomfortable with the success of his first novel. They meet through an online dating service, not necessarily on purpose and after an iffy start decide to be friends. This turns into more, but not without some very unexpected twists. I found the first couple of chapters a little confusing, but once I got the characters straight I was hooked. I fell for Paul and couldn't help staying up until the book was finished. I read this book in exchange for a review and would strongly recommend it.

Overall, it's a pretty good romantic story. Paul and Mia are likeable. There were some small things that never really went anywhere: Daisy's dating site profile - was it just there as a means to get Mia onto it herself? What about the caricaturist with Daisy's portrait? I'm wondering if that's a lead-in to a story about Daisy? Mia's on again/off again relationship with her husband was a little sketchy. It provided limited momentum for the story and could almost have just been left out. Why not have her hiding out in Paris simply as an escape from the spotlight rather than putting in an awkward "is she single, is she not single" question?

As for Kyong's story, I think that should be an entirely separate book. It's a very interesting plot with a lot of potential, and I was surprised to see it inserted into a typical romantic storyline. Paul and Mia's story didn't need such an odd twist to make theirs progress, and I think that Kyong's story wasn't fleshed out as much as it deserved. I want more details about her, her life, her family and the hardships they face in Korea. That's a story worth telling, and I would absolutely buy it.

Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC in return for my honest review. I really liked this story of an American author living in Paris and an English actress hiding in Paris from her philandering husband. The friendship between Mia and Paul is a slow build-as is their romance but I enjoyed their meet cute and their bantering. The story was definitely a 4 star but I took off 1/2 star for the parts of the story that I didn't understand. I think that this may have been part of a series. There were a number of references between Paul and his best friend Arthur to past events that I just didn't understand. I kept thinking that they would be explained but they never were. I could still follow the story but it was a little confusing.

Great light read perfect ray of sunshine on a rainy day

I love Marc Levy's work. He has a very unique way to talk about love. It was a fun, light read.

Mia is an actress who has just finished a love story with her real like husband. She finds that he is off having an affair and she is not sure how she wants to deal with this. Mia goes to Paris to stay with her childhood friend, Daisy who owns a restaurant.
Paul is a novelist who has moved from San Francisco to Paris years ago. His friends are there on a visit and set him up with a blind date. Mia and Paul decide they are going to be friends only. Mia tells him she is in business with Daisy.
This relationship is complicated and has its ups and downs. The story becomes better to me as the story develops. The end is maybe not what you would think.