hillary72 's review for:

The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel by Pamela Binnings Ewen

2.0

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[Eye Roll.] I love books about strong women. I really like books set around WWII. I strongly disliked this book. (This is a very generous two stars.) I knew very little about Coco Chanel beforehand, but I thought her story would be intriguing. Not this novel. I’m not sure whether the author missed the more engaging parts of this woman’s life. (Honestly, I was more interested in the son who became her “nephew” than multiple chapters about the perfume recipe being “stolen” — by the guy who eventually became her lover. Harumph.) There was not a single likable character in the novel. References to the Holocaust were weak. The elitism was annoying. And the Audible narrator only added to that (with a bad Spanish accent when those characters spoke).