Aimee was a fabulous character, and her Paris group of friends made her story charming, interesting and a good read. Her past shows up, and makes her question her present, especially with little Caroline due in just four months & it was a delight to read, I'll definitely be picking up the next in this series!

Thanks to Netgalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for a personal review.

After reading The Paris Effect some time ago, I was pleased to hear there would be a sequel.
I was eager to read Paris Ever After and catch up with Amy to see what had been happening since we last left her.
The book opens with a little taster of where we left off on the last book just incase all had been forgotten.
Once again we are treated to the delights of Paris, with vivid descriptions of the food, buildings, gardens and culture of Paris, we are lost and transported right back into the life Amy has now created for herself.
But life may not be that simple, Amy is now pregnant and when estranged husband Will turns up out of the blue, Amy needs to decide what she is going to do.
Amy is still living with Margaret, but when her lost daughter Sophie turns up and takes an instant dislike to Amy, her life and plans are put into jeopardy.
Once again I didnt want to put the book down and was eager to turn to the next page.
A perfect read for when you want to get lost and escape to a different country.

This was a quaint book. I did not know this was part of a series so perhaps I should go back and read the first. I enjoyed reading everything about Paris, from the food to the scenery. To me, Amy was a hot mess but she kept me turning the pages with surprises along the way.
Thanks toNetGalley and Velvet Morning Press for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

I was torn reading this book at first. I wasn't crazy about any of the characters but I liked the writing. By the end I still felt the characters were forgettable but I am glad I read the book. That's a huge credit to the writing.

An enjoyable peek into the life of Amy, an American woman living in Paris after her best friend dies and she leaves her husband. I read this as a stand-alone, so some of what I felt was missing may have been contained in the first book. I wanted to know more about Amy's feelings towards the other characters. But I felt the book had a good ending, and I really liked all the descriptions of the places, food, and culture in Paris.

I was delighted to read this sequel to The Paris Effect. I loved hearing about Amy's continued adventures in France. Her descriptions of Paris are amazing and immersive as well as witty. So enjoyable! Can't wait to read more in this series.


Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I had not read the first book in this series, but found it wasn't necessary as there is a brief summary in the beginning of the novel. Amy has left her husband and is living in France. He is unaware that she is pregnant with their child, in spite of the fact she has contacted him numerous times. She is living with an elderly friend, Margaret and has found a life in Paris that she loves. Will she be able to keep that life? When her husband shows up in Paris, she realizes she must start planning her future back in the US with the father of her child, but he has a few bombshells of his own. An enjoyable novel and a great summer read!

Paris Ever After is the sweet story of Amy, a young American woman who ends up in difficult situation in Paris. Unfortunately, it moved a little too slowly for my taste - I ended up reading only the first sentence of most paragraphs because some of the author's descriptions of places and events were quite detailed, and didn't really contribute to the storyline. This delightful tale could have been compressed into about half the number of pages.

This would be a great book for a reader with a lot time leisure time on her hands.

3.5 stars.

Synopsis: Amy didn’t realize how stale her life was until she jetted off to Paris without telling a soul—not even her husband—and had the adventure of a lifetime.

Then on Amy’s thirtieth birthday, two unexpected visitors leave her wondering if she will soon be saying au revoir to Paris and the new life she’s struggled to build. Her estranged husband, Will, shows up—but is he interested in reconciliation or separation? And a young woman who arrives on Amy’s doorstep unleashes chaos that could push Amy out into the street.

As Amy’s Parisian dream starts to fall apart, she must decide: return to the stability of Will and Phoenix (if that’s even still an option) or forge her way forward in Paris? Amid secrets and surprises, set in enchanting gardens, cozy cafés, and glittering Parisian streets, Amy must choose between two very different worlds. And each has a claim on her heart.


I will be honest and say I did not love this book. I liked it enough to finish, but not enough to recommend wholeheartedly. Granted, it is the second book in a series (the first one being The Paris Effect). I liked the characterization, and of course with a setting like Paris, it is très magnifique. However, like the main character, the plot seemed as if it wandered aimlessly around the streets of Paris for a long time before it wrapped up rather quickly at the end. And that is what I did not love about it.

If you are a fan of anything Parisian, or of expatriate stories in France, this will be a book that you enjoy (and probably the first one from this author as well).

This book was wonderful! At first I thought it was going to be a fluffy romance story but it turned out to have so many layers. I love Amy and her supporting cast. I love all of the French phrases and conversations about food. Way more twists and surprises than I expected. Magnifique!

When i started this book I didn’t realize that it was the second book of a series. The author did a great job of allowing the reader not to feel lost and for that I was grateful. I cheer on a good female lead and Amy was one. Would have given 3.5 stars if possible.

I really didn't enjoy this book. Actually I didn't finish it. I didn't like the characters or the plodding plot. Not my cup of tea, merci.

I really enjoyed this adventurous frolic through the streets and tunnels of Paris... and fell for the setting first and then the characters. I adore reading about Paris and love the way the French language is interspersed eloquently throughout Paris Ever After. Author, KSR Burns does a splendid job of introducing the reader to Amy- she's a hot American pregnant mess who has somehow made friends with the neatest characters. You know- the people we would love to have as our own friends in a far away land. The characters themselves are quirky, fun, complicated, and most importantly interesting! Each character seems to have their own story waiting to be shared.



Things seem to be settling into a fun and easy routine for Amy and her new friends Marguerite and Manu when two people show up into her world unannounced. Enter her estranged husband, Will and Marguerite's long lost daughter Sophia. Sophia brings in chaos and Will has news to share with Amy.... Amy also has news to share too and is bursting to tell him that they are now expecting a little girl she has already named Catherine.



I felt this book was really well written. I was intrigued with the scenes, the food, the stories, and the characters... not necessarily in that order. I like the way Amy works through her grief in missing her best friend Kat. I wanted her to really give Will a hard time in this book, but feel that she handled herself pretty well given the situation.

There were just a few confusing parts when Marguerite falls apart.. I felt the scenes were written well but left more unresolved than I cared for. The tension seems to build and build and then the resolution is just too quick and light...and then the book shifts toward something else. So a little bit of head spin there just to keep things interesting, but I am not sure clarity was not resonating for me.,



Overall, a fun and adventurous route to an ever after that takes the reader on a tour through parts of Paris that the everyday tourist does not get to encounter with big surprises along the way!!!!



I appreciate the advanced reader copy to review from Netgalley and Velvet Morning Press.

This is a book 2 in a series but there is a recap at the beginning, so it can be read as a stand-alone:

Amy's best friend died, she left Phoenix to go to Paris for a few days without telling her husband William, who got mad and told her to go to hell. Currently, she's 5 months pregnant (with her husband), living in Paris with an old lady, whose daughter had disappeared but now have reappeared and is kicking Amy out of the apartment. William comes to Paris with unknown intentions.

This was a quick and relatively fun read. I didn't care for most of the characters. Amy was naïve and submissive but it was bearable most of the time. She had a giggle about the fact that for one character (a creepy French guy), feminism is a "serious affront". But she was also kind of funny and passionate about things at times, which saved her from being boring.

The constant confusion Amy went through about the weirdness of the French characters worked well for me as a Czech reader as well. I have a feeling they were supposed to be quirky but they were more like just unlikable for me. Her American husband was a total jerk (abusive, misogynistic, homophobic etc.) and it made Amy look stupid for marrying him in the first place. We didn't learn much about the new love interest. The development of the romance between those two was believable but unfortunately, it wasn't shown (in this volume, at least).

Although the characters made me think "oh yeah, I really wouldn't want to move to France", the descriptions of the city and food were quite satisfactory. Overall, it was fine, although it would probably be better enjoyed by people who adore anything French.

This book became a DNF. and that is because Amy irked in the chapters I've managed to slog through. Her stalking of her estranged husband William. Instead of being a woman and telling him about the baby outright. She also seems immature, I can understand needing a break but who runs off the way she did and not inform her husband. And she can't seem to understand her role in this fiasco. Though to be fair, he does seem like a pompous jerk. But I hated Amy even more than him. It was also extremely agitating the way she kept referring to her unborn daughter as if she was born and already had a personality. Amy didn't like her Paris friends making decisions for her and telling her what to do. Maybe she needed to grow up? I didn't care for this book. Voluntarily tried to read this book via NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

"Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review."

Loved this book very much. It had just enough sweet romance and the storyline was great! I highly recommend!

I requested this book because I absolutely loved the cover. And with it being set in Paris, I was definitely in.

The book was decent. I loved Amy's adventures in Paris and her quirky friends. Unfortunately, what I was hoping for and what really happened never seemed to jive at all, for me.

First of all, Amy got on my nerves constantly. She was a nice person, but her talk about William this and William that got on my last nerve. Sure, he was the father of her baby, but hello he was an A$$. At the beginning of the book, she seemed a whole lot stronger and less immature. I'm not sure if this was because the author wanted to convey her mixed feelings or what. That part I can understand. However, towards the middle of the book, Amy just went on and on and on about William. Then, we finally get to meet this man of Amy's. That was when I started skipping pages left and right. He was egotistical, all knowing and rather boring.

This was definitely not what I was expecting. I don't understand why so many times the female lead in a rom com has to be so dingy and flighty. I mean rom com doesn't mean airhead or even rhyme with it.

I think it all went downhill for me when Amy wanted to leave her idyllic life she had built in Paris and return to America. Yeah, I know he's the father. How could anyone reading the book not know? I didn't count the number of times this was stated in the book, but it was significant. The redundancy was just too crazy for me.

I'm just going to finish by saying it was an okay book for me. It had it's great parts and then there was the redundancy. I'm sorry, the guy may have been the sperm donor but he was not husband, or even father, material.

Thanks to Velvet Morning Press and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.

I didn’t love the beginning of this novel, where the author is catching the reader up on what happened in book one, which I didn’t read, but once I got into it, I really enjoyed being transported to Paris and getting caught up in Amy’s dilemmas.

Amy is pregnant and hasn’t spoken to her husband in months. She wants to tell him he’s going to be a father, but he’s still in Phoenix and won’t return her calls or emails. Though they fought, which is why she’s still in Paris, she thinks things can still be repaired, especially since he’s going to be the father of a baby girl.

Amy happens to have astonishing luck meeting people who go out of their way to help her, including by offering her room and board. It stretches the imagination, as does the fact Amy misreads a situation that you, the reader, will figure out well before she does.

Still, I’d recommend this series to anyone who is going to spend anytime in France or would like to but can’t afford it. I’ve been to Paris, but I learned a lot about French customs that I didn’t know and wish I had known before I’d traveled there.

I love Paris and reading about how Amy can pay out of pocket for prenatal care and giving birth even without insurance because health insurance is so much less expensive there is yet one more reason to be jealous of Parisian life.

For anyone that has ever dreamed of packing everything up and running away to another country, this book is a great ode to the fresh start. Following Amy as she continues her new life in Paris after the death of her best friend, this is actually a sequel but the details are very well provided so it’s not hard to read as a stand-alone. Thoroughly enjoyable, thanks NetGalley!

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion.

Amy's start in Paris was rough, running away from Phoenix without a word to her husband after the death of her best friend. However, she now loves her Paris life, living with Margaret and working with Manu, who have become close friends to her. When Amy unexpected sees her husband checking into a Paris hotel on her 30th birthday, she is filled with shock and knows she will finally have to determine the future for both herself and her unborn daughter, Catherine.

Paris Ever After is the sequel to The Paris Effect but can easily be read as a standalone. This was an easy escapist read. Who wouldn't dream of going to Paris and being offered places to stay rent free? The plot twists were easy to spot from a mile away, but this isn't the type of story you read to make you think. It was a cute book.