The House I Loved is one novel that tries too hard. Through a combination of flashbacks and epistolary revelations to her long-dead husband, Rose Bazelet sets out to defend her actions, both past and present, to her friends, to future readers of the letter, and ultimately to readers of the novel. In...
This reads like Sarah's Key lite - a weary revisiting of similar themes of memory and losses (and houses) with no conviction in the writing - it is almost like a filler before Tatiana writes her next proper novel - at 221 pages with a lot of empty pages to denote chapters, it reads more like a novel...
An epistolary novel written from the point of view of Rose Bazelet, a 60 year old women, determined to oppose the modernization, or destruction, depending on your point of view, of old Paris. The Emperor and his Prefect have crafted a plan to tear down much of the city to make way for the broad bou...
So I'm giving this the same rating that I gave Sarah's Key. It's not a bad book. It's a bit too predictable, a bit too Lifetime or Hallmark movie. The mystery or the secret is really easy to figure out. It reminded me of those movies from the 70s. You know like The Towering Inferno; a bit moral...
A pleasant, historically interesting, but not gripping story set in 1860’s Paris during Napoleon III’s project to modernize the city by razing many of the winding medieval streets and replacing them with long straight boulevards. The book is written in as a series of letters by Rose Bazelet to her 1...
I'm not really sure what I think of this book...it wasn't as good as Sarah's Key. You were sucked into this book by the premise of some big secret, something big enough to cause emotional distress and a car accident. But there wasn't anything. There was this ONE secret that is let out halfway thr...
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