A review by jrd622
The Last Restaurant in Paris by Lily Graham

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I love the way the author told this story. It starts out as a dual timeline story, with a young woman realizing that her mother was adopted, and her grandmother an infamous murder of a group of Nazi officers. The story vacillates between the young woman’s time, and her grandmother, Marianne’s, coworker, Gilbert’s version of events back in the 1930s. Approximately halfway through, it switches POVs to the grandmother’s back when she was a child up through the time of the murders. It was really neat to see the exact scene (same dialogue and all) play through Gilbert’s eyes and Marianne’s eyes in two different parts of the story.