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The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
3.0

I received this book as an ARC and it took me ages upon ages to finish. The prose is beautiful and I thought so each time I picked it up and read a chapter...but it was such a chore to get myself to pick it up. I think the main issues lie in the pacing—it took forever to get where it was going and the ending felt rushed. I loved the characters of Jules, Django, and Lucie, but I had difficulty remembering who each of the tumbleweeds were.