Maggie Finds Her Muse takes readers to Paris where blocked romance writer, Maggie has delightful experiences, meets interesting people, reconnects with her ex and their daughter and hopefully finds the words for the last book in a contracted trilogy. The story is filled with French culture, food, and attractions...scenic and personal, plus Maggie’s very active, often humorous imagination that can be triggered by the smallest things. This reader’s planned trip to Paris was postponed during the pandemic, but everything learned in preparation for the trip was confirmed by Ms. Ernst within the pages of this lovely story. I voluntarily reviewed an advance copy of this book from NetGalley. Most highly recommend.

Paris is magic and how the author described Maggie's experience was beautiful. It was there that she found her muse but most importantly, she found courage and learned not to settle. Nicole describing how her mom.chose relationships similar to the characters in her romance novels was spot on which is why she could never go back to Alan. Max is her person.

Maggie Bliss has writer’s block on her 3rd book of her trilogy. Her agent Lee suggests her fly to Paris with him and his partner and stay in his family apartment. She decides to do it after she breaks up with her live in boyfriend. Maggie also thinks it’s a great idea because her daughter Nic is in France. Maggie meets Max who is Solange‘s son and the caretaker of the house. Also as a distraction is her ex-husband Alan whom she has been divorced for many years, he is in France visiting their daughter. Maggie starts writing again because she has found her muse . I won’t tell you what that it is because it would give the book away. The author does a wonderful job in describing the food, attractions and the characters. I enjoyed this book. I now want to go to France. Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the E-ARC. This is my own opinion.

Paris!

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel by Dee Ernst. Maggie is a successful author with a bit a writer's block and so when an opportunity arises for her to visit Paris for a bit of inspiration, she takes it. As the title indicates, she does in fact find her muse in Paris but the journey to that point is great fun.

Dee Ernst takes her readers to the streets of Paris, the restaurants, and all of the typical tourist places, but she also takes you off the beaten path a bit and I enjoyed every minute. I never felt like I was reading a travelogue or that the setting was forced. She spent a lot of time describing food and the meals everyone ate but it was never to the point that it overshadowed the story.

The characters were all likable, if at times underdeveloped. Maggie is very sympathetic and I always felt like I was on this journey with her.

Overall, a fun read!

I enjoyed this a lot. The characters were likeable and overall it was an easy, pleasant read.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for the copy I read.

Loved Maggie Finds Her Muse! Dee Ernst gives us a fun book with characters to fall in love with AND Paris. What more could a reader ask for?