Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher, for my free eARC.

I tried really hard to get into this book, but it was not for me. While the writing was well done, the way it was wrote, is something I don't read often. I felt very lost reading this, and gave it my best.

I have read a lot of reviews about people loving this book, so I know it is a wonderful novel. Just not the one for me.

I was given a free copy via NetGalley for my true and honest opinion.

This book is perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park. Eugene and Tatiana could have fallen in love, if things had gone differently. If they had tried to really know each other, if it had just been them, and not the others. But that was years ago and time has found them far apart, leading separate lives.

Until they meet again in Paris.

It is a story of will they or won't they. We find out what happened to lead them fall apart and reconnect again in Paris. It is a cute, feel good book that is perfect over Xmas!

I loved this book.
First of all, the story is great. The characters are real, they make mistakes, they recover and learn from them.
But also, I loved the rhythm it has.
I'm not a native English speaker, it took me one or two pages to get used the the rhyming prose, the changes in speed, but when I got it, it was like music. I just never wanted it to end.
I wish I could read it in its original language, too, but for now, congrats to the translator, who did and amazing work on this book.
Thanks NetGalley and the publisher for my ARC of this book, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I was excited to read this book, but just felt kind of "meh" after reading it- I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either. "In Paris With You" tells the story of Tatiana and Eugene, who are reunited years later on the Paris metro, after falling for each other during their teenage years and then having their relationship dissolve. I didn't feel like I particularly cared for the character of Eugene (frankly he was kind of a jerk), though you definitely felt the anguish of a young Tatiana after he suddenly scorns her as teenagers. I guess I also didn't realize that this book was written in a poetry format, and I have to admit, that's not really my thing. Thank you to St Martin's Press and Net Galley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I keep seeing this book advertised as YA, but I feel it is more New Adult. The main characters are in their twenties and the story flashes back a few times to their teens, but most of the content and plot is focused on these two people in their mid-twenties reconnecting after 10 years apart.

Told by an unknown narrator, Tatiana and Eugene meet when they are 14 and 17 respectfully. Tatiana is in love with Eugene almost immediately. She confesses her feelings to him and he rejects her in a rather harsh way.

Ten years later they see each other on the subway and dance around each other for the rest of the book. This time Eugene becomes obsessed with her right away and they both reminisce about the summer they met and knew each other while deciding if they want to be together.

I really liked the set up of the book and the writing was unique. But I really did not enjoy the story. Eugene was an awful character -- he literally becomes obsessed and possessive of Tatiana after meeting her again. He gets angry when she travels out of the country and does not respond to his messages -- even going so far as to contact her supervisor to get to her. He then thinks of her as a slut after convincing himself she is sleeping with her supervisor.

There's also a secondary storyline of what happened the summer of 2006. It is tragic and sad and is completely glossed over.

I was left feeling frustrated and confused for most of the book and the ending made me very mad. I would not recommend this title.

**I received an e-ARC from Netgalley**

I couldn’t finish this one I tried but I couldn’t get into the characters or the story line. This one just wasn’t for me

I liked that the story is told in verse, and the formatting seemed off some in my electronic version of the book. The book is being marketed as YA and in my opinion it does not fit in that category. Perhaps the nuance of the story is lost in the translation from French to English. Overall I give it a 3.5 out of 5.

A chance encounter on the Paris metro causes once almost-lovers Eugene and Tatiana to meet again. After a heady summer spent pining after each other ten years ago, teenage Tatiana and Eugene parted ways due to some unsettled, and rather unfortunate, circumstances. Now in their 20s, the two find themselves caught up once again in those overwhelming feelings of young lust and love. Have the years changed them too much? Should they give love lost a second chance?

Translated from its original French, Clementine Beauvais’s In Paris with You perfectly captures the bliss and turmoil that is first love. From the obsessing over will he/she call to the giddiness of a perfectly-timed not-so-subtle glance, Beauvais’s descriptions of what it is like to be young and in love are spot-on and will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has been there, done that.

Written in verse, In Paris with You flashes back and forth between the present and past, and gradually reveals what happened to make Eugene and Tatiana drift apart, while also exploring their feelings for each other in the present day. While marketed as a YA novel, In Paris with You may actually be better suited to adults who have already trudged through the throes of first love and lived to tell the tale. While Beauvais’s flowery descriptions of romantic love may appeal to the younger French crowd, it’s significance may be lost on the less, shall we say, sophisticated American teen.

While the feelings of love expressed within the pages of In Paris with You ring true, the story doesn’t really go anywhere. The span of the novel does not cover much time or space, and while enjoyable for what it is, readers may feel disappointed with what they are left with in the end. The big reveal of why Tatiana and Eugene did not work out ten years prior kind of falls flat, and for such an exhilarating romance, I was expecting something more heartfelt and tragic.

The way this book is written is not for everyone. I speed read and I found it difficult to read quickly due to the format. I think I may have liked the book more if it didn’t throw off my reading pattern. I do appreciate it being different and unique for someone wanting to branch out a little of the romantic genre.

the teenage love who slipped away, who you never forgot, who is now suddenly right in front of you again. I have mixed emotions. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the first half of this story. I was hesitant and skeptical of the poetry literature concept, but I didn’t mind it at all. It could be a bit confusing at times, but provocative. I really enjoyed the dual perspective and mystery in the first half of the book. This story is very wordy, but also fairly short. I think it’s perfect if you appreciate slam poetry, mixed with snark and witty observations and tons of internal dialog. This story was very self away and brutally honest. Unfortunately, for being so poetic and wordy, it’s not the least but romanticized. Both of the main characters are extremely flawed and borderline unlikeable. Both characters, at different times, are unbearably haughty. It’s the type of book where you’re just not sure how you want it to end, and in the end I still didn’t know what I wanted to happen...but it didn’t. In a lot of ways this is a story about growing up and getting over yourself a bit, but there’s zero resolution.

Here are a few quotes I really loved.

“Crazy, isn’t it? We must have been convinced, or at least a little part of us must have believed, that at fifteen years old we’d already discovered our best friends forever, our immortal lovers. Don’t you think it’s sweet how important it all seemed?”

“Sometimes, she realizes, you can try too hard to be perfect. Reaching for rhymes and rhythm when you could write freely. Being clever when you could be sincere. Writing a letter with ink and quill, when you could just Open a New Message.”

You have to live it completely, thoroughly resolutely interminably even past the madness of the first few months.” “What madness?” “You know. At the beginning, when it feels like it just keeps growing and growing; but you know, even when it all stops—” “Stops?” “I mean the madness part. When you start feeling yourself again, and not just a big ball of desire, it just keeps getting better. The wonderful thing about really loving someone is that even when the first fires of passion have died even when the honeymoon is over even when you’re no longer head over heels —and yes, of course it’ll happen—you’ll be friends, you’ll build something durable and tender, a trust in each other; that’s not something your career will ever give you, so don’t even bother. I’m talking about something solid, that the two of you have built. From that moment on, you’re no longer living just for you, but for the other person too.”

Tatiana and Eugene met years ago as teenageers, thanks to Tatiana's sister Olga and her boyfriend, Lensky.



For Tatiana it was love at first sight of the young man Eugene.

However years later after the crush has faded, Eugene is the one infatuated if not obsessed with Tatiana but as she is set to move for a new job, will the pair staying Paris or leave together?



A very different and emotive book, it was not what I was expecting and was more poetic than novel like though the expressionism was appreciated and enhanced the novel greatly padding it out else it would simply be a love story with a tragedy partly reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet, only in modern day. I did enjoy it but not the expected hype build up I'd seen online about it.

I love the format of this book. I love the way it switches back and forth between verse and prose and I keep wondering if it was even more lyrical in the original French and how it can still rhyme in parts in the English translation.

And I love that the personal monologue of Tatiana - and Eugene to a lesser extent - is so similar to the thoughts that I had as a teen, and even now, when I meet someone new.

Of course, her fantasy life with Eugene far surpasses her daily interactions with him. The reality never lives up to the dream. I'm also intrigued by the fact that all the characters have Russian names and would love to know if there's a story there.

Normally, I stay away from poetry, but this book really charmed me. And I really liked the role reversal: when they were teenagers, she adored him and thought about him constantly. In the present, he is obsessed with her. She is still interested, but a little bit wary.

This offbeat romance really captured my heart in the first few pages. I love that it was written in verse as it set it apart from your average contemporary romance. And the setting gave me all the heart eye emojis!!

In Paris With You is beautifully written. What drew me to this book was the promise of prose, succulent verse, Paris in all its forms that I've never experienced and I was not disappointed in that at all. But the story is ridiculous. The characters and plot are ridiculous. It's an old love affair (barely an affair if that) from teenagehood rekindled on the morning train ten years later. The story begins with Eugene and Tatiana meeting on a train, Tatiana seemingly pregnant and Eugene nearly missing his grandfather's funeral obsessing over whether or not her mentor is the father. Then we're taken back in time to the summer when they first met at 14 and 17 and the exaggerated angst of teenage crushes and existential nihilism. There's a lot of contemporary romance and pining pages written in flowery verse that takes up too much time. It's a bit unrealistic that the two main characters could just fall back in love so quickly, so ardently considering they never thought of each other at all in the ten years that passed. Then we find out the reason why their relationship never took off all those years ago and it's so callous and unnecessary.
Overall the book was written well, the verse was excellent but the story was boring, too long and a little ridiculous.

In Paris With You is a charming story about love, love loss and everything in between. Written as poetry fiction this book is a delightful to read. It's so engrossing that you could easily finish this book in one short sitting. I loved the flow of the story. It was great. The characters were fun and entertaining. I will say it was hard at times to tell who the narrater was talking to. At time they were telling the story and others they were speaking straight to the reader. But once I adjusted to the authors writing style this wasn't an issue anymore.

This book was very hard to get interested in. I tried. I read over half of the book and finally gave up on it.

First of all let me just say that I really liked the writing style, it was unique and very enjoyable. The story was very cute and I liked it very much. Tatiana and Eugene, our two main characters, meet two times in their lifetimes, once when they're teens and another one when they both are in their twenties. Could the second time be the right one? That's basically what this book tried to discover in such a unique way, also by using a narrator voice which was very funny and perfectly captured the thoughts of the readers. I much preferred the sections set in their twenties but I felt the characters a little bit closer to me. The ending was a surprise but I must say it was a nice surprise. I think in some weird way it did make total sense and in the end I'm happy how the story turned out.

This book was beautifully written and the author has true talent. But, it’s not what I was looking for and it just wasn’t for me. At times, the book had me smiling, and the whole thing was very sweet, but for me it was also dull and lifeless.

It could be the fact that this was poetry that made it not as enjoyable for me. I’m not into poetry so that’s most likely the reason for why I disliked this.

I would recommend this book to audiences who enjoy poetry and a nice romance. Also, just a note, I don’t think this book should’ve been rated as young adult. Some of the things I saw made me feel that this was meant more for new adults than young adults

This is a fabulous book with quirky writing style and times when you will chuckle out loud. It is more than a story about Tatiana and Eugene because the narrator interrupts both the story and the characters at different moments adding so many flavors to the entire story.
Eugene and Tatiana met when she was fifteen and he was seventeen. He was jaded by life and love; she was in a romantic bubble in her life and love was beautiful. He rudely bursts her bubble.
When they meet years later, everything is different as the tables have reversed. Eugene now longs for Tatiana and she for him until something changes her mind about it all-a jaded perspective forms in Tatiana’s mind now. Can his determination change anything or is all lost once again and for good?

This was a great story. However, I could not get into it because it was written in poetry. Poetry is not my thing and I don't usually read reviews before I start a novel, so I had no idea it was poetry. I am probably in the minority for that reason. Great story, nonetheless. Just wasn't for me.