So good for that strong message: 1. Getting your act together. 2. Making a place for yourself. 3. Finding that solid ground to stand on.

Funny, poignant, Paris Ever After was epiphany filled.

Having not read the first book and not even realizing this was the second book until later–on I still don't think I missed/or am missing much.

I liked and didn't like this book. I got bored quite amany times, did a handful of skim reading. But that it is how it is for me and this particular subset of this genre. So I loved the message and felt for the girl. Did relate to the protagonist as well in major bits but felt uninterested too.

Special thanks to NetGalley and the Publishers for this review copy.

ThE PARIS EFFECT: REVIEW

‘THE PARIS EFFECT’ by K.S.R Burns is a quick and fun read. It isn’t the best book I have read, the end came out of nowhere and there was essentially no build up in the book. I can understand what the author was trying to portray and I had a good time reading, but if there had been a build up it would have been so much better. I give this book a ⅗ stars.
This book isn’t like most books that feature Paris/France. In most book the women are young and chick. In this book the protagonist, Amy is older and has left her husband and life back in America and moved to Paris because of an outbreak between her and her husband. Before her best friend Kat died they had been thinking of going to Paris for a month, when she dies of cancer Amy decides to go to Paris for a week without telling her husband. When he finds out and gets mad Amy decides to stay in Paris. This is when she finds all her good friends and new life, her life changes for the better in Paris.
Let’s get to the spoilery parts now;
I felt like this book had lots of unnecessary details. We could learn more about the present time and the characters but it was always about Amy’s past. In the end it is Amy’s story but there were many more characters, and things that happened that I couldn’t see coming because we didn’t see much of the characters.
Margaret was a mother figure for Amy but she said that Margaret did many things to make her stay but forgets her the moment her own daughter comes into the picture.
And Also I can’t really understand how Amy stayed in Paris in someone else’s home without a real job without questioning how and why these people were letting her stay with them and what there deal was?
I didn’t understand when and how Manu and Amy started liking each other. When she was jealous of Sophie I couldn’t understand what her deal was because up until that point Amy never let on that she liked him in a way other than friendship, The relationship between them was unsatisfying for me because of this.
I would have rather saw their relationship before the end of the book, rather than her creeping after her ex husband for 2 chapters.
Sorry for coming off negative in this review, I actually liked how downbeat it was. As a fantasy reader this was a book I could read in one sitting and enjoy it without thinking about it too much.
*I got this book from Netgalley, so I would like to thank them.

I had not read any of K.S.R. Burns’s books before I received a free copy of Paris Ever After on Netgalley. I did not know this story was part of a series until a bit into the book which is great. I was given the background information that I needed and I was able to enjoy my trip to Paris! This book is relatable - we all want to be our own hero in some way. Most of us also want to travel to Paris as well! This book was well written and I was not able to immediately guess what was going to happen. The suspense yet easiness of the reading made it a great book. This is a perfect beach read :)

Paris Ever After" was a nice, happy book to read, with some clichés, some predictable bits, but several likable characters and of course, the Eiffel Tower. I would read more books by K.S.R. Burns, but I won't put them at the top of my list. The writing was good, but sometimes it felt like the story was an out of control car careening down a narrow Paris street, bouncing off one wall and then off the other. Sometimes that can be fun but I found there to be far too many coincidences happening to make Amy’s story seem realistic.

Hello, my name is Alina and I am a Francophile. Long story short - when I came upon this book on NetGalley I requested it (just like any other books about Paris) and was extremely happy when I got approved for ARC. And on a beautiful and warm spring morning I made myself a hot café crème and while munching on delicious french macaroon I started to read this lovely novel.

The story begins on a day of Amy's thirtieth birthday. That's also the day when Amy's life as she knows it starts to fall apart. First, she accidentally finds her estranged husband in a local hotel. The same husband who fathered a child she has been carrying for the last five month since the two had an argument that resulted in Amy's move to Paris. Second, her dear friend and landlord Margaret's long-lost daughter, Sophie, shows up at the door. That should not be a surprise. This is her home, after all. The surprise is that Sophie disappeared two years prior and was assumed to be dead. Now, the prodigal daughter wants Amy out of the mother's heart and home. Third, she feels extremely covetous about Manu, who became her dear friend and employer since her move to the city of lights. Also, Manu is Sophie's ex-lover who remained close friends with Margaret after Sophie's disappearance two years ago. Phew, I think I've covered everything here.

In five days Amy's Parisian uneventful life goes from calm and steady to shattered... yet again. Every turn and decision she makes follows by dreadful discoveries. However, Paris is a magical place, and Amy is about to be reminded of it... yet again...

Paris Ever After is fantastic and quick read, perfect for relaxing and quiet evenings at home with a glass of rose and cheese, you have to do it French style or not do it at all. Amy's happy ending warmed my heart and reminded me that no matter how bad it seems today, life goes on, and it will be better... in Paris.

First of all, a huge thank you to a marvelous author, Karen Burns, a.k.a K.S.R.Burns for writing this remarkable novel. And thank you NetGalley and Velvet Morning Press for an ARC of this book.

Please know I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my review or rating. Also know, I did not read the first book in this series, "The Paris Effect." In hindsight, I don't think it was necessary to have read the first book to follow the second book. Other reviewers wrote that the first book summary is included in the first half of book 2.

I am a sucker for all novels Paris. I love the city. I love the atmosphere. I have loved very many books set in Paris, or with Paris as a "character", of Paris' history -- nonfiction, fiction, or realistic. I love walking her boulevards, savoring her pastries, being awed in her museums.

Amy, the main character, goes to Paris, leaving her husband, her job, and her home, behind without saying a word. She needed to "find herself" and jetted to Paris to do just that. Interestingly, she left her husband not knowing she was pregnant

She lands on her feet, finds a gracious woman to befriend her, and take Amy into her home and heart. Amy connects with her friends and has remade a life for herself. After she is well advanced in her pregnancy, Amy is still not sure what she is going to do with herself, about Will or Manu (who she met in Paris) and now there's a baby on its way!.

Eventually, Amy discovers Will has come to Paris looking for her. Amy then finds herself without a home, having been kicked out by the gracious woman's not-so-gracious daughter..

I found the book to be okay. The characters to be okay, though I was quite a bit less sympathetic with Amy as she chose to run away - needing to find oneself is all well and good, but when you are married you have an obligation to your vows to your spouse. I didn't like the manner in which she left him without letting him know her intentions. I feel that is cowardly. Amy is a less-than-honorable person and that taints my overall view of this story.

In gathering my thoughts for this review, I read a few others and more than one reviewer likened this book to a Hallmark Channel movie. I believe this is an accurate analogy. If you do enjoy Hallmark movies, I think you will enjoy this book. If you enjoy Paris, I think you might enjoy the descriptions of the city and the Parisians in this story.

Amy goes to Paris, leaving a husband behind without saying a word. The ability and ease with which she did this took my breath away. Can one just walk away from a husband, home, job, and just jet off to Paris to "find oneself".



Anyway Amy does just that. She lands on her feet, finds a beautiful woman who takes her into her home and heart, links up with her friends and has now made a life for herself. She also did not realize when she left Will her husband that she was pregnant. Now she is well advanced in her pregnancy, still not sure what she is going to do, ambivalent about her feelings towards Will and Manu (whom she found in Paris!) protective of her unborn child and basically not sure of anything.

Fast forward and she discovers Will has come to Paris looking for her. At the same time she is thrown out of her home in Paris with the return of a long lost daughter who does not want her anywhere around her mother. Will seems strangely reluctant to have any conversations with her, keeps putting it off even meeting her and though she thought he was back to ask her to return (on bended knee) it does not seem to be quite so straightforward.

I found all the characters very charming in very different ways. I found Amy to be the least charming of the lot. She sounds like a spoilt brat who expected things to fall into place, the way she wanted it to. I however loved the descriptiveness of the entire story, the Paris setting, the lives and details of the few Parisiens who dotted this novel.

Goodreads review posted on 19/4/2018. Review on my blog towards the end of May 2018.

I just didn’t get on with this book at all I’m afraid. I found it disappointing.
Characters were all very flat. There was for me a hint of the grotesque about the atmosphere created by the strange, slightly menacing people Amy has surrounded herself with. It seemed stifling to me, and yet Amy is allegedly happy and carefree.
Amy and Will were unconvincing as ever having been in love, let alone married. They both come over as self-centred and immature. They seem to spend the entire novel avoiding communicating with each other, which they’ve been doing the entire time they’ve been apart apparently, and both scenarios are hard to accept.
Certain lack-of-practicalities jarred – Amy still seems to be using the phone she arrived with from the States, which must be working out very expensive, and her residential status is completely baffling.
The plot was rather complicated, and far-fetched. I know fiction is all about coincidences, suspended belief and unlikely events, but I wasn't up to the task this time.
There are some lovely descriptions of Paris here and there, and some rays of sunshine in witty dialogue but not enough to win me over.

Can Amy’s rocky start in Paris turn into a happy ever after? 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. Now as she tries to establish herself in the City of Light, she finds that despite a fun (and quirky) group of friends and the ability to indulge in French pastries whenever she wants, reinventing her life is much harder than she imagined.

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.

My Thoughts: In our first look at Amy Brodie in Paris Ever After, she is still reeling from the death of her best friend Kat. The death that sent her flying off to Paris on a trip that she and Kat had planned, but was derailed by her death. But then, after just a few weeks, Amy returned to Phoenix…to a bitter fight with William that catapulted her back to Paris. On her second day, she meets an older woman named Margaret, who offers a room, and in a short time she begins to feel at home.

Her life is now full of beautiful café lunches; soirees at Margaret’s, with her two friends Herve and Nanu; and a new pregnancy with baby daughter Catherine. Just before she left Phoenix that last time, William gave her a parting gift. He does not know, however, and now she faces a dilemma.

Can she share her news with him and see if there is anything left of the marriage? What will her future hold: Paris or Phoenix?

A lovely book full of scenes that I loved, some characters that were wonderful, and others that were not. Secrets come out and an unexpected reunion between Margaret and someone she thought she had lost would upend Amy’s plans. Where will she belong now? As the story drew to an end, I was hoping for a sequel so that I could spend more time with these characters. 5 stars.

***My e-ARC came from the publisher via NetGalley.

Paris Ever After is the sequel to K.S.R. Burns' book, The Paris Effect. Although I did not read the first book in the series, I still felt that I could easily pick up the story and understand what was going on. The main character, Amy clearly loves Paris and has fulfilled a dream by going there. The descriptions of the gardens and cafes made it easy to imagine being there. They also make me want to visit France even more than before I read the book.
There were a couple of characters, such as Manu, that I felt could have been developed a little more. In turn, I thought there were a few details particularly about Amy's mother that seemed to be thrown in most likely just to connect back to the first book, but they really didn't add to the story or character development.
Overall, I found the pace of the story to be appropriate. The descriptions of the setting were nice, but I do feel there were a few circumstances that seemed a little too coincidental to be believable. Despite some of these concerns, I would recommend this book for a quick weekend or summer read.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Paris Ever After is the sequel to Amy's story. I was very slow to warm up to the main character because she relied on other people to take care of her. She runs away from her husband and then acts indignant and surprised when she's replaced. I did enjoy the sites and food of Paris the author mentions because both are tres magnifique.

I really loved the cover. Honestly the cover is what made me request this book. Also it's about Paris. I dream of traveling there and eating all the cheese and pastries I can stand. And yet this book made Paris boring. It made Paris an afterthought. I didn't even know that was possible, yet here we are. We have an unlikable main character (Amy) who through ridiculous happenstance manages to come out of the end of this book with a perfect life. It just didn't feel realistic to me at all. The secondary characters were not developed at all (we have Amy's landlord Margaret, her boss/friend Manu, and a random stranger who has befriended them from the last book named Hevre). The writing was not working for me at all. Probably because every five seconds Amy is telling you she has to eat something. And mostly it seems to be cheese and chocolate. I don't know, I just found the whole book boring.

"Paris Ever After" follows Amy as she settles into her new life in Paris. Burns gives readers a quick rundown of Amy's life prior to this book, her best friend died, she fled to Paris without telling her husband (his name is Will) and then Will said they were done and she fled back to Paris. Amy is sort of working (she never seems to show up there) for her friend Manu and also I think runs a blog (it's a throwaway line) and mostly spends most of this book trying to work out what to do when her estranged husband comes to Paris looking to meet up with her and a young woman who has ties to Manu and Margaret also appears.

I found Amy childish to the extreme in this book. She is about to turn 30 (and eventually does during the timeline of this book) but acts like she's 3. Will shows up in Paris, but she spends most of the time either hiding from her (she wants him to make an effort to talk to her) and then following him around Paris without him seeing her. I wish I was joking. She acts entitled and doesn't even seem to get the part she has played in their marriage falling apart. I wish that I could say that I at least had sympathy for Will, but nope, he's a jerk in a whole other way. I just find it hard to read books when I don't have anyone to root for. And when you have an unlikable main character you start to wonder why you are even bothering. Unless I am reading a "Gone Girl" type book, I want my romance novels to actually have a heroine I don't want to throttle.

The other characters read as stereotypical French people. Hevre acts spoiled (he's a Baron) though you have to be pretty obtuse to not pick up on the fact that something that way doesn't pass the smell test. I didn't care an iota about Manu. He was just there. Margaret got on my nerves and what Burns did with her character didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I just chalked it up to plot reasons and let it go.

The writing didn't work at all. The book felt like it was scrambling to me to have something interesting to say. Amy barely does a thing besides traipse from scene to scene with people falling all over themselves letting her stay with them. If that's true I need to go to Paris as quick as possible.

The flow didn't work either. You have an overall plot with Amy and Will, but there are two other side plots happening in this book and it takes until the very end to wrap those up as well as Amy and Will.

The book takes place in Paris though Paris barely feels alive in this book. We do have a scene where Amy takes Will around Paris and that is about it. I still didn't get a great sense of Paris or why Amy is so happy living there (besides the fact she managed to just live rent free with people and have everyone concerned about her well-being at all times).

The ending was too pat and not believable at all. I won't get into it here since there would have to be spoilers, but let's just say that Amy's life is perfect. I can't see the author revisiting the character again after this book since I think there's nothing left to say.

Paris Ever After is a fun and at times emotional read. Amy is definitely one I could relate with. KSR Burns did a fabulous job making Amy a true to life character. I felt like I knew her and understood her life. Of course, I would love to go off to Paris for awhile! I am glad I was able to see the city through her eyes. The author’s talent shines by describing the details of the setting, making a reader feel as though they were part of the story. Amy goes on quite the adventure that she would have never expected. Will this lead to a new life and perspective for Amy? There was in no way could I have predicted how it would have ended for her.

I give Paris Ever After 4 1/2 stars and look for more by this author in the future.

I recommend this book for those who love good contemporary fiction.

I received this back from the publisher. This review is 100% my own honest opinion.

This is actually the second in the series – I’m not sure there will be a third – but it read well enough as a stand alone novel.

I found the main character, Amy (or Aimee) engaging, and while I found a few of her actions slightly unbelievable, and some of the events just a little too coincidental or serendipidous, the story romped along at a good pace. Yes, there was a modicum of suspense about which man Amy would end up with – although it was never really in that much doubt – but generally the story was fairly predictable.

Having said that, it was interesting enough, and reasonably well written, with certain paragraphs or phrases being poetic enough for me to pause and enjoy reading them again. I’m not sure I was engaged enough to go back to read the first, nor would I necessarily rush to buy a sequel, but I enjoyed reading this book.

As a Francophile, I enjoyed this romp around Paris with Amy. After fleeing Phoenix, Arizona after the death of her best friend, Amy leaves behind her troubled marriage to William. With some unusual characters, including Margaret, who treats Amy like her daughter, and Mani and Herve, we get to experience Amy’s personal growth. I liked it.

Paris Ever After is a sequel to a book I have not read...that being said, I didn't feel like I had missed anything by just jumping into the second book without reading the first. It takes us on Amy's adventures in Paris and it is a quick, fun read. I really enjoyed the way the story unfolded and hope there's a sequel to this in the works.

Such a cute book! The second in a series, Paris Ever After tells the story of a young pregnant girl who is estranged from her husband and living in Paris. She then works to figure out the next steps of her life with a crazy cast of characters. While I haven't read the first book in the series, The Paris Effect, I never felt lost or confused. The author did a wonderful job of summing things up at the beginning of the novel.

Overall, Paris Ever After is a super fun book and a great way to escape for a few hours.

I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion,

**I was able to read a copy of this book via NetGalley**

**3.5 Stars**

Paris Ever After is the follow-up to The Paris Effect. Going into this novel, I was not aware that it was a sequel, but I was able to read it and follow the characters easily enough. I do think it would be a good idea to read the first book prior to this as it would provide insight into the characters, but you won't be confused if you don't.

Though it is not a perfect novel, I did enjoy this book. I liked most of the characters and I think Amy is a well-rounded character. She is not perfect , but no one is and she is likable. Generally, I liked the story though I do think the pacing slowed down in the middle of the story. As previously mentioned, I haven't read the first book so I found the characterization of Will to be lacking, however that should be rectified once I read the first book. The descriptions of Paris and the food are wonderful.

Overall, I liked this book. There were some flaws, but I was interested in Amy's story and it was a very quick read. I would check out another book from this author and if you like this genre, it would be a good read.

Have to admit I wasn't completely loving this one. While it has some strong parts....it's missing something. Decent read.

I love love love this book! I enjoyed "The Paris Effect" very much, and was surprised to find this - a sequel! Yay! I hope Ms. Burns will bring us even more stories featuring Amy, Margaret, Manu and the rest of the characters she's introduced us to. Viva la France!