As author Natasha Sizlo mourns the heartbreaking death of her father, she plans to "meet him in Paris" to fulfill her promise to him that she wouldn't give up on the magic of finding true love, as she continues to search for her soulmate. Natasha, a real estate agent at a prestigious and famous LA firm, hatches the plan after consulting with her astrologer and convinces her sister Tara and friend Nicole to join her on her quest. Natasha is a single mom, recovering from a devastating divorce and also the break-up of a longtime love, Phillipe, a sexy, magnetic Frenchman. Sizlo's writing is descriptive, humorous and engaging, but the story she told was sometimes hard to relate to as she kept describing her financial situation as lacking (even often hinting at being "broke") despite the fact she was selling multi-million dollar homes for a substantial commission, spending money on luxuries without much thought (extravagant designer clothing, spa/salon, pricey purses, $400 psychics, travel, trendy restaurants, expensive car (but not a Porsche!) , etc) and has an ex-husband who works in Hollywood (and remarried to Anna Faris) who is likely paying substantial child support, along with a divorce settlement. She also attempts to drastically downplay her glamorous appearance in her demeaning descriptions of herself, but as most common, average-looking readers can see from viewing her social media online, that even when she she had her quiet brown hair color, she still looked similar to a gorgeous, fashionable Princess Kate and when she made the "bold" transformation to blonde, she looked like a young, gorgeous Sharon Stone. The best parts of the story happen when she is describing her time with her father and what he meant to her in her life, along with the times she shared with her sister, Tara. Her mother sounds like quite the character, and would have loved to hear more about her life stories, but she was more of a bit background character, due to her avoiding being around for the difficult parts of her dying husband's end of life care. I also would have loved more interaction with her children, but they seemed more peripheral to her story, as things to be toted to/from places or after thoughts. In Paris, she really became annoyingly self-absorbed to the exclusion of realizing that her sister and friend also had hopes and plans for their dream vacation in Paris. As Sizlso attempted serial dating in Paris to find her one true soul mate, it felt a bit like watching the Batchelor/Batchelorette--fun and entertaining, but ultimately, what was the point if no one actually finds "The One" at the end? Happily, although it took her a whole book to get there, Sizlo, does discover in the end that the true people who loved and supported her were with her all along. A sweet story of love and loss and family.

Thank you to NetGalley and Mariner Books for this ARC.

All Signs Point to Paris is a memoir about Natasha Sizlo’s journey to find her soulmate. Natasha is a mother, a real estate agent and a divorcée who recently lost her father, Her friend gifts her an astrology reading and she travels to Paris to find a men born there on November 2, 1968 - the same birthday as Philippe, her French ex-boyfriend. .

I felt that the chapter introductions should have included a simpler explanations about astrology. I disliked that she appeared so self-absorbed in her desire to find a soulmate that she was dismissive of her sister and friends and almost misses Paris. Her descriptions of her financial struggles compared with her trip to Paris made no sense to me.

I enjoyed her description of the loving relationships among women: sisters, friends and strangers at a bar in Paris. The end was not just about the outcome and her search for a soulmate, but about the inspiration of finding love.

Natasha Sizlo is a newly single mom who is trying to make it in real estate. She breaks up with her French boyfriend and is left feeling adrift in life. She goes to see an astrologist and is thrown by what she is told. So she and her friends go on a quest for her to find a second chance at love. This is a darkly funny memoir that I had a hard time putting down.

Natasha Sizlo needs a change: she’s financially strapped, her dad’s ordered his end-of-life meds, and her boyfriend won’t commit. So, after her father’s death and an astrology reading that says her soulmate’s Parisian (né Novembre 1968), Tasha heads to Paris—sister and friends in tow—to find him. Hilarious, heartbreaking, and hopeful, Sizlo’s memoir of searching for love is a joy.

This was entertaining but ultimately a letdown for me. This memoir was filled with endless name-dropping (eyeroll) and a selfish protagonist.

Much of the book takes place surrounding the fallout of Sizlo’s father’s death from lung cancer, which Inwas sympathetic to and helped to humanize her. But her frequent complaints about her experience with poverty and bankruptcy (mostly due to her own mismanagement and poorly set expectations, it seemed) were very hard to relate to given that she’s constantly talking about the RIDICULOUS things she spends money on, like $400 astrologer appointments and designer clothing. You have two kids. Manage your money better. She came off as immature and plaintive, but I had very little empathy for her.

She plans a trip to Paris based off of her astrologer’s recommendation that her soulmate was born on a specific date in Paris, and begins a semi-insane quest to find this man by any means possible. Her best friend and sister go along for the ride, but due to her aforementioned inability to make plans like an adult, the trip sounds largely like a disaster. She barely goes on any dates, is completely obsessed with finding matches, is blind to the magic and beauty of the city she’s in, and basically ignores the wants and needs of her best friend and sister. She attempts to somewhat redeem herself by the very end, but her track record is pretty repetitive - mess up, apologize, repeat.

Basically if I’m reading a memoir and I want to enjoy it, the storyline has to be EXCEPTIONAL for me to get over disliking the author. The content was good, not great. The author was, frankly, detestable. Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I guess I’m just not an LA girl.

3/5 stars for entertainment value.

I did and did not like this book. Let me tell you what I liked about this Tara, the sister, Nicole and Penelope, the friends, Bob, the dad, the astrology, the trip to Paris, Anton, the "love at first site" guy. What I did not like about this book: Natasha, main character, Edna, the mom, the way the book dragged on and on.
I find it hard to believe that Tasha and company could post so many flyers around Paris without getting fined or asked to take them all down. The romantic part of going to Paris to find your soulmate born on 11/2/68 was fun but it was also funny to me how she really only met up with one guy and the rest all just blew her off. Tasha to me was a very self-centered adult and the book was self-centered too. She never really went in to her relationship with children. Her life at that time centered soley around her finding her "perfect" man. And boy did she spend a lot of money on the astrologist! I did enjoy the power of social media though. That was fun. Her mom was also selfish, She was never around when her husband was dying.
I did finish the book even though I thought I might not and I am glad I did. I just don't think I can highly recommend it.
Thanks to #netgalley, #Marinerbooks and @natahasizlo for an ARC of this book for an honest review.

All Signs Point to Paris
By Natasha Sizlo

Number 33
1.5/5 ⭐️

This book was almost the my first DNF. I had a really hard time getting through it which was disappointing considering I had really high hopes since I got it as an ARC from netgalley. I often found myself cringing at how Natasha acted - she’s in her forties, but acts like a love struck teenager. I had to keep reminding myself that this is a memoir and that these things actually happened which made it worse for me. It was really hard to read about Natasha’s quest for love while she acted so childish and selfish.

The astrology component also seemed a bit out there to me. When reading the synopsis, that part jumped out to me as interesting. However, it was written to portray more of a “LA fad” kind of thing than actual astrology. I could be wrong, but that was how it came off to me.

The only reason I didn’t give this book one star was because I did really enjoy the descriptions of Paris and the fashion sprinkled throughout. If Natasha was going to go on her silly quest to Paris that she couldn’t afford, at least she was decked out in fabulous clothing. Overall, I found this memoir whiny and I had a really hard time connecting with Natasha.

Natasha Sizlo did that wild, crazy, and foolhardy thing that many of us dream of doing: chucking it all and going to Paris to find the life of our dreams. Broken-hearted, grieving, broke, and at wits' end, Sizlo flew to Paris to find the person she is destined to love and live happily ever after. In ALL SIGNS POINT TO PARIS, Sizlo shares this story, filled with twists and turns, surprises and the delights, supported by astrological readings, friends, and helpful others. I enjoyed going on this journey with her, moved and inspired to applaud her courage, her spirit, and her skillful telling of an extraordinary story. I received an early copy of this novel and these opinions are my own, unbiased thoughts.

What was I thinking when I thought I’d enjoy this book? It’s easy to feel compassion for the author’s loss of a beloved father and for the breakup of a marriage. But...it started to feel like Sizlo’s woes are often self-inflicted (obviously excluding the death of her dad). This did not feel like the memoir of a forty-ish professional woman but more like a record of the magical thinking of an adolescent. Plus she has two kids who need to have a living example of someone who manages her finances rather than complaining helplessly as she jets off to Paris looking for magic solutions. I would not hire the author as my realtor...

Ah Paris. Where millions visit, live, and search for love. It becomes the focal, point of Natasha’s quest to find her soulmate,, based on her astrological chart. She is hell bent on finding the one and goes at warp speed with a social media campaign, posters, and an advertising blitz about the man for her, born Nov.2, 1968.
I read this memoir with great interest. My birthday is one day off from the magic date, I love Paris, and am a sucker for romance.
I thought Natasha was zany, off the wall, and a little kooky in her zeal to find her other half. I don’t believe in the stars or astrology, but it was fun to ride along on someone else’s trip.
I think her quest was her way of coping with her father’s death, a painful breakup, and a buildup of past hurts.
The last few hours in Paris are like a movie script, but Sizlo left me dangling with a follow up. We’re the stars not aligned?? I was disappointed there wasn’t a further update.

Since this is a memoir, I’m going to keep my thoughts short because I don’t want to rain on anyone’s real like story but there’s so much of it that doesn’t add up and so much of it that was so super annoying that I found myself skimming just so I could get through it and get on to the next chapter.
Natasha Sizlo is looking for her soulmate after an astrologer tells her that he has a birthday of November 2, 1968 in Paris, which happens to be the date and place of her ex, who she still has feelings for but he does not reciprocate. She decides that he can’t be the only one with that birthday and location so she starts a social media search to find other men matching the criteria.
Ok. I get that you want to find love but dang, for someone who complains about being ashamed to bring people back to your house, you go out of your way to spend money on a trip to Paris? And your ex is engaged to Anna Farris, so he’s probably doing well and would pay child support. And if you’re working for The Agency that’s been seen on TRHOBH, you’re not that poor. Pick a lane. Stop sleeping around and making bad choices. Dev was there and would have been perfect for you but you were too busy checking Tinder. Get it together.

Thanks to Mariner Books and NetGalley for this eArc in exchange for my review

Natasha Sizlo is on a mission to find all single men who were born on November 2, 1968 in Paris. Why? Because her astrologist told her that her soul mate is a man who was born in Paris on November 2, 1968. Does it get any more LA than that? In this touching memoir we learn about Sizlo's journey through managing the grief of losing her father to a terminal disease to a whirlwind trip to Paris to find The One. She only finds the courage to go because on his death bed her father gives her the okay, even encouraging her adventure to find the magic and hold out for love.

I absolutely loved this memoir. While it might be completely far fetched to think that a person's soul mate was born on a specific date in Paris, France because their natal chart told them so, I completely bought into the story. Perhaps I am as much of a hopeless romantic that Sizlo is. I bought into the magic of searching through the city for your destiny. I was happy to read about how Natasha grew through the experience, and came out the other side a better person. Who doesn't love a story when the main character evolves? Also as a shameless Bravo fan, I loved the mentions of her work at The Agency, did not expect that! This was just an overall feel good memoir that tied up nicely with a bow. Finally, I wish I got to know Bob Sizlo in real life. Sounded like an amazing person and father. Joe Cool!

I received a review copy from Mariner Books via NetGalley and I voluntarily provided an honest review. This does not affect the opinion of the book or the content of the review.

Have you found your soul mate? I did, at the age of 14. I didn't know it at the time, but it was when I met my future husband. After "dating" at the age of 14, I did not see him for another 8 years. We were dating other people, but found our way back to each other and we have been together since. 32 years together, and almost 25 years married. 💍

In All Signs Point To Paris, Natasha, after a astrology reading, makes plans to visit Paris in hopes of finding her soul mate. Her astrology reading said that her soul mate would have been born on November 2, 1968 in Paris. So this sets in motion what seems like a crazy idea. Natasha, with the help of her sister and friends as well as a thumbs up from her dying father, set out to make this trip happen. She spoke this trip into existence! This is why I love memoirs so much! You learn about other people, their cultures, their beliefs and what makes them tick. I am such a Libra,(⚖️♎) and the whole time I was reading this book I kept thinking to myself, she is crazy for doing this or she is such a rockstar for putting herself out there and doing this! I see both sides of a situation all the time....it can be annoying! What a wonderful book and a wonderful journey! Natasha, you have surrounded yourself with some amazing people and I know you will find your soul mate!!

This books pub date is on August 16th! Pre-order this now!!

Thank you to NetGalley, Mariner Books and Natasha Sizlo for the #gifted copy of this book in exchange for my honest review

Do you remember the movie Only You from 1994, starring Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr. and Bonnie Hunt? When I read the description of this memoir, I immediately thought of that movie, which was about a young woman (played by Tomei), who dashes off to Italy just before her wedding because of a childhood Ouija board prediction that she was destined to marry a man named Damon Bradley. A silly premise, but the movie was frothy fun because of its gorgeous settings and charming actors. This book description sounded like that movie, and I love Paris, so I thought I’d try it out as a change-of-pace summer read.

This is a very LA-state-of-mind story. The author, Sizlo, is divorced from a cinematographer husband who is now married to actress Anna Faris. Sizlo is a realtor at the mega-firm The Agency, which will be the subject in the fall of 2022 of a Netflix reality series titled Buying Beverly Hills. In this book, Sizlo complains frequently about her poverty, at least in comparison to the expectations of someone in her line of work. She apparently went bankrupt due to a small-business venture and now lives precariously on the irregular returns from her real estate job. Despite her claimed poverty, Sizlo describes regularly spending money on high-end clothing, accessories and styling, and ridiculous things like spa treatments, reiki, psychics of various types, “personal growth” retreats with healing gongs, and more. Her travails, other than her father’s painful death from lung disease, are hard to relate to or sympathize with. It’s difficult not to feel judgmental about her choices, considering she has two young children.

About halfway through the book, Sizlo finally gets to Paris, along with her sister, Tara, and a couple of longtime friends. It was nice to read about the places they went in the City of Light. Not surprisingly, considering Sizlo’s lack of planning and foresight, it does not go as anticipated.

I’m just too old, careful with my money, and practical-minded to enjoy a memoir of a flighty 40-ish mother who behaves with all the maturity of a spoiled teenager and is often just awful to her friends and especially her sister. There are a few moments in the book that save it from being a complete disaster, but this is definitely a not-for-me book. I’m going to seek out a rewatch of Only You to wash this one out of my brain.

Recently visiting the sights and sounds of Paris coupled with the gorgeous prose of Natasha Sizlo make this a most memorable memoir.
When a birthday gift to an astrologer reveals that the authors soul mate was born in Paris on 11/28/1968 which happens to match her ex-boyfriends, she is amazed and her curiosity is peaked. Although she doesn’t believe ‘in the stars’ this information is intriguing. Blossoming into an obsession, she departs for Paris, the romantic City of Lights. Throughout her quest to find the man (or woman) that was meant for her, the reader finds themselves on Sizlo’s very personal quest of self-discovery. The infinite bonds of father & daughter, siblings, friends and the ties that bind forge a path of heartfelt, funny and emotional moments. The loss, grief, joys and uncertainties are palpable. The experiences revelatory.
This is a memoir that must be read. I highly recommend this incredible memoir. With many thanks to NetGalley, Natasha Sizlo,and Mariner Books for an ARC in exchange for an honest book review.

Natasha takes the reader on her personal discovery of love, of what she thinks she is looking for and what she eventually finds.

A memoir that reads like a novel. All Signs Point to Paris is a touching story of love, loss, and finding your true destiny. The only cons are long chapters, but once you get into it they make sense and also draw you in.

Hmm. How much you enjoy this might depend on your mood when you pick it up. Natasha's friend Tara gives her a reading from an expensive astrologist for a pick me up when she's struggling with finances, her love life, and her father's illness. When the astrologist tells her her soul mate is a Frenchman born on a specific date, she packs up her sister and friends and heads off to find him. Not exactly what many (truly) struggling single moms would have done but then Sizlo has made herself into an influencer of sorts and hey, why not. She does have a good conversational writing style but the whole thing left me wishing she had turned this into a novel as, with a few modifications, it would be a fun rom com. Thanks to the publisher for the ARC. I know I'm the outlier.

It was a really interesting memoir, formatted in the form of an easy-to-read novel. The fact that it was a true story made the whole read more fascinating. It is a real story about a woman who doesn't believe in astrology until she goes to an astrologist and they tell her things that there is no way she would know unless it was true—including the birthdate and place of one of her potential soul mates. So, she travels to Paris in order to find him. It was unlike any memoir I had read in that she took this life journey to find her soulmate and met people across the world based on their birthdates!

The author was personable and daring. She lives the life that I would love to live—going on an adventure in order to find destiny. So, I loved being able to experience her journey. However, it had a really slow start to the book. There were definitely moments in the story where the experiences felt disjointed or didn't transition well. I also felt that when the author tied in the moral of certain scenes, it felt rushed and at times inauthentic to the moment because the lesson wouldn't seem to be learned until later scenes (if at all).

I know each person has their own personality and it is based on this author's story; however, there was a lot of cussing in the book. Not just cussing, but the use of the "F" word. I wasn't a fan of its use, but I guess she is recording her experiences as they took place instead of filtering.
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When Natasha Sizlo's astrologer told her that her toxic ex's chart was her perfect match, she knew he couldn't really be her soulmate. But he couldn't be the only person born on November 2, 1978 in Paris. With her dying father's encouragement, Sizlo decided to fly to Paris to find every man she could born on that date — and hopefully to find true love.

Sizlo writes engagingly about her journey, which often feels too magical and thrilling to be true. I appreciate how Sizlo doesn't shy away from the messier moments in her adventures and embraces both her optimism and her eccentricity. Whether you believe astrology or not, this memoir about finding love in unexpected ways is delightful and inspiring!