Romantic, hopeful, and full of Parisian magic 🇫🇷💖. Last Chance in Paris is a beautiful story about second chances, adventure, and finding love when you least expect it. Lynda Marron captures the charm of Paris perfectly, with atmospheric settings and heartfelt characters you’ll root for. I loved the emotional journey and the message that it’s never too late for a fresh start. If you adore romances set in iconic cities with plenty of heart, this one’s for you.

What drew me to this book was the title. I absolutely love Paris and enjoy visiting whenever possible. I had expected this to be quite a light read but I was wrong. It’s a very poignant read about life’s regrets with Paris and its landmarks as an extra character. Will definitely be recommending this book to friends. I was surprised to hear this was a debut novel so will be looking forward to more of this authors books in the future. Many thanks to Net Galley and the published for this advance copy.

Last Chance in Paris is a novel with a cast of different main characters in which the chapters alternate.
Claire and Ronan are on a romantic weekend break from Ireland to Paris. A weekend that should save their troubled marriage. During the story and time in Paris, the reader gets to know more about their background and why their marriage is in trouble. Yeva is a teenager from war torn Ukraine, who fleds to Paris. She has to care for her younger sister who fled with her, and she doesn't have a job, so she is in a survival mode to find money and food for them both, while she truly misser her papa back in Ukraine.
Mireille Delasus is a woman in her seventies from Dijon, and whose husband Rémy passed away some time ago. We meet Mireille when he is about to travel to Paris by train. What she is about to go to Paris for remains a bit unclear though during the story, and it seems that she is lost a bit in life and in memory.

Dan is an American law student who is temporarily living in Paris on his study break. Harry is a famous Hollywood producer who has come to Paris to overthink his life, which was quite tumultous.



At firsthand, I thought that all the characters had seperate storylines, who would later on in the story cross paths in Paris someway. This does happen at some very tiny moments in the story, but further on, the characters stay in their own storyline and do not meet or get a connection to each other. This made the story feel very thin and somewhat odd, because all the storylines in itself are also very thin and one dimensional too. The whole point of this story? I wouldn't know, and I wonder if the author had a certain point to work towards too which was hard to find in this story. From al the different characters, Claire and Ronan where the most believable and realistic characters who had the most depth. Harry..I truly didn't understood his character, and his story added nothing to the book, which also counts for Dan who has the smallest and thinnest character and storyline in the book. These where two chatacters you wouldn't miss if they where left out of the story. The story of Mireille and Yeva where sad, but they where characters that had also very small storylines with a lot of loose ends and no real conclusion. They where all characters you don't start to care about as a reader.

This is a book I truly expected more from and which I not particularly recommend.

An enjoyable escapist read with engaging characters. Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for a copy.

Not my usual read but it definitely drew me in and I enjoyed the different relationships and stories of the characters throughout

our couple have been through a lot. and like the saying goes "wherever you go, you take yourself with you" so is a holiday in Paris going to heal anything for this couple. or heal the tragedy's they've faced?
and interwoven is other set of characters who all weave together so perfectly.
this book does indeed feel like a calm and lovely walk through the city streets of Paris. its not big and hit with twists or HUGE plot point. but its a story of peoples lives. and its beautifully done. you just watch and view these intricate and delicate telling of how different people are but how ver similar we can be too. like watching people from a Parisian cafe but then learning their stories.

I found this book quite slow going and difficult to get in to however the final third I enjoyed a lot more. I really liked seeing how the characters all linked together. Claire and Ronan’s story is heartbreaking and you could feel the grief. I loved Harry too. Marron’s writing is beautiful and I would read more.