![]() I was slightly bored, or at least not engaged, for about 1 - 2 hours but given that this is such a long book, I was prepared to go with it. It seems simple enough at face value, but the switches in era, generations and families adds a layer (or several) which at times, did baffle me. It's not exactly what I was expecting - but it is very good. ![]() I love long audio books and I love Paris, so that's why I bought it. Paris bursts to life in the intrigue, corruption, and glory of its people.īeloved author of Sarum, London, and New York, Edward Rutherfurd illuminates Paris as only he can: capturing the romance and everyday drama of the men and women who, in 2,000 years, transformed a humble trading post on the muddy banks of the Seine into the most celebrated city in the world. Over hundreds of years, these four families are bound by forbidden loves and marriages of convenience dogged by vengeance and murderous secrets torn apart by the irreconcilable differences of birth and faith, and brought together by the tumultuous history of their city. Inspired by the haunting, passionate story of the city of lights, this epic novel weaves a gripping tale of four families across the centuries: from the lies that spawn the noble line of de Cygne to the revolutionary Le Sourds who seek their destruction from the Blanchards whose bourgeois respectability offers scant protection against scandal to the hard-working Gascons and their soaring ambitions. ![]()
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