I just finished reading The Paris Maid by Ella Carey and here is my book tour stop review!!
The Ritz hotel has been overtaken by the Nazi's and it's Louise Basset's unpleasant job to clean up after them. The sad thing about being a maid, you go unseen. The best part of being a maid in the resistance? You go unseen. Louise risks her life daily sharing information she finds left lying around by arrogant men and when a young pilot crash lands and is found by the resistance, she knows she must do more to help the people of Paris and the beautiful man she enjoys spending time with.
Her granddaughter in the present day, works to find out why there was a photo of her grandmother with her hair shaved off and branded a traitor. This is not the woman she knew growing up and needs to know the truth about her heritage.
Who was Louise? Was she a loyal resistance fighter or was she the traitor that Paris made her out to be?
I loved this book! Loved it. The book comes from the POV of Louise in 1944 Paris and Kit, a pilot that crashes fighting against the Germans. Modern day time follows Nicole and her search for answers. The character development was charming and I felt fully connected to all the people the author introduces us too. I loved Louise so much. All the women during that war who didn't hide, they fought like heroes. I love books like this and I have read many so this book had a lot to measure up to and it is definitely in the top 5 of best WW2 novels ever written for me.
The plot was fantastic and I usually don't like multiple POV but it really rounded out the story to have them all and gave more depth to what was happening to other people and how they felt.
So cleverly done. I did shed a few tears and the little plot twist at the end I really didn't see coming and just added real value to the story as a whole!
Brilliant! I highly recommend to anyone who loves historical fiction and especially world war 2 books.
5 stars
Thank you to @netgalley and @bookouture for my copy of this book and my views are my own
Merged review:
I just finished reading The Paris Maid by Ella Carey and here is my book tour stop review!!
The Ritz hotel has been overtaken by the Nazi's and it's Louise Basset's unpleasant job to clean up after them. The sad thing about being a maid, you go unseen. The best part of being a maid in the resistance? You go unseen. Louise risks her life daily sharing information she finds left lying around by arrogant men and when a young pilot crash lands and is found by the resistance, she knows she must do more to help the people of Paris and the beautiful man she enjoys spending time with.
Her granddaughter in the present day, works to find out why there was a photo of her grandmother with her hair shaved off and branded a traitor. This is not the woman she knew growing up and needs to know the truth about her heritage.
Who was Louise? Was she a loyal resistance fighter or was she the traitor that Paris made her out to be?
I loved this book! Loved it. The book comes from the POV of Louise in 1944 Paris and Kit, a pilot that crashes fighting against the Germans. Modern day time follows Nicole and her search for answers. The character development was charming and I felt fully connected to all the people the author introduces us too. I loved Louise so much. All the women during that war who didn't hide, they fought like heroes. I love books like this and I have read many so this book had a lot to measure up to and it is definitely in the top 5 of best WW2 novels ever written for me.
The plot was fantastic and I usually don't like multiple POV but it really rounded out the story to have them all and gave more depth to what was happening to other people and how they felt.
So cleverly done. I did shed a few tears and the little plot twist at the end I really didn't see coming and just added real value to the story as a whole!
Brilliant! I highly recommend to anyone who loves historical fiction and especially world war 2 books.
5 stars
Thank you to @netgalley and @bookouture for my copy of this book and my views are my own
