The Last Letter From Paris

Book tour stop for The Last Letter from Paris by Kate Eastman and here is my review.

It's 1940 and Cora is in Paris looking for her birth mother. A woman who left her in the grass all those years ago. Leaving her wonderful adoptive parents to search during a war that could get more dangerous at any moment.

She sees the German flags flying and knows the people around her who have become her family, could be in danger and stays knowing the risks.

For days she's seen the flashes in the night sky. She's heard the drone of planes and the thump of marching boots. Doors on every corner slam shut as the German flag billows over the Eiffel Tower. Leaving Cora just one chance to get her letter out of Paris...
Things get more dangerous when a German officer takes a shine to her but after he beats her badly enough that the woman who has been serving him helps her escape, Cora finds herself running against a clock to get out of Paris and to the UK before she is arrested as a traitor.
Along the way a German soldier finds her and a baby she has found in wreckage and saves them both. Max, with his kind eyes and big heart, helps Cora without asking why she is fleeing.
Can they do enough to save their own lives?
I am a sucker for romantic historical fiction with a dash of thriller and this was really an exceptional read. Cora is exactly what I love in a main character, fierce and flawed and loyal to the bitter end. I felt the sadness she felt at always wondering why her mother abandoned her and when she does find out the truth, she doesn't know what to do with it. As a kid who didn't know their father, I can really appreciate the anguish to want to know no matter what.
I loved all the characters and the development of the main characters was so well done. It was told from more than one perspective and understanding Evie's perspective on how she found Cora and raised her and how having her only child go looking for the woman who abandoned her, during a war.... gut wrenching and the author does an stunning job of bringing those fears to life.
It was a nice twist on a world war II novel and I enjoyed the fact the war was more a parallel to the real story of the two women. I found myself running through every emotion reading this book and please make sure you have a box of kleenex close by because you may not know you are crying until you feel the tears sliding down your cheek!
5 stars. @Bookouture and @netgalley, thank you so much for my review copy of this wonderful book!

Merged review:

Book tour stop for The Last Letter from Paris by Kate Eastman and here is my review.

It's 1940 and Cora is in Paris looking for her birth mother. A woman who left her in the grass all those years ago. Leaving her wonderful adoptive parents to search during a war that could get more dangerous at any moment.

She sees the German flags flying and knows the people around her who have become her family, could be in danger and stays knowing the risks.

For days she's seen the flashes in the night sky. She's heard the drone of planes and the thump of marching boots. Doors on every corner slam shut as the German flag billows over the Eiffel Tower. Leaving Cora just one chance to get her letter out of Paris...
Things get more dangerous when a German officer takes a shine to her but after he beats her badly enough that the woman who has been serving him helps her escape, Cora finds herself running against a clock to get out of Paris and to the UK before she is arrested as a traitor.
Along the way a German soldier finds her and a baby she has found in wreckage and saves them both. Max, with his kind eyes and big heart, helps Cora without asking why she is fleeing.
Can they do enough to save their own lives?
I am a sucker for romantic historical fiction with a dash of thriller and this was really an exceptional read. Cora is exactly what I love in a main character, fierce and flawed and loyal to the bitter end. I felt the sadness she felt at always wondering why her mother abandoned her and when she does find out the truth, she doesn't know what to do with it. As a kid who didn't know their father, I can really appreciate the anguish to want to know no matter what.
I loved all the characters and the development of the main characters was so well done. It was told from more than one perspective and understanding Evie's perspective on how she found Cora and raised her and how having her only child go looking for the woman who abandoned her, during a war.... gut wrenching and the author does an stunning job of bringing those fears to life.
It was a nice twist on a world war II novel and I enjoyed the fact the war was more a parallel to the real story of the two women. I found myself running through every emotion reading this book and please make sure you have a box of kleenex close by because you may not know you are crying until you feel the tears sliding down your cheek!
5 stars. @Bookouture and @netgalley, thank you so much for my review copy of this wonderful book!