Lost and Found in Paris

This was a fun, fast-paced read--part Thomas Crown Affair part rom-com--with some beautiful descriptions and methodologies behind drawings, paintings and installations. This book was also part travel memoir with all the French details, history, and descriptions that had me on a nostalgia high.

The bittersweet thread woven throughout the book when Joan remembered about or learned something new about her father, who passed on 9/11, was unexpectedly poignant.

But the entire thing falls a part with the Beckman explanation. Joan motivations for inaction and forgiveness were paper thin at best. One outburst followed by a party doesn't cut it for everything Joan went through!

Joan's arc was great up to that point, and she doesn't lose herself in a man, but even the nice epilogue couldn't push me to a full five stars solely because of Beckman.

Joan Blakely's charmed life as the daughter of a super-model and a high-end artist came to an end when her father died during 9/11. She impulsively married Casey and went to work in a museum to dull the pain of the loss. When Casey announced he was leaving her to be with his five-year-old twins he fathered with an assistant at work, Joan took off for Paris to hand-deliver a work of art. And then the art went missing...

A tiny better than the cover might lead you to believe.