Review: The Little Paris Patisserie

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As the youngest of four, Nina Hadley has always had her big brothers telling her what to do. So, when she’s given the chance to move to Paris and help run a patisserie course, she can’t say au revoir quick enough! There’s just one problem: high-flying chef Sebastian Finlay is the owner of the patisserie. He’s also her brother Nick’s best friend – and the man she has secretly been in love with since forever. Amongst the mouth-wateringly delicious eclairs and delicate macaroons, Nina’s culinary creations aren’t the only tempting thing she’s working with…

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: September 2018

Mature content: nothing overly graphical

Review: While I loved the first two instalments in this series, this one did not work for me. Despite the Paris setting, only two of the characters are actually French. It seems a bit odd that an assortment of British people would enroll in a patisserie course in an obscure Paris bakery, gray and gloomy and otherwise virtually devoid of customers, and then decide to do the renovation works in said bakery -  which doesn’t belong to them and is actually due to be closed. Because, of course, it makes total sense that tourists on vacation and overseas students spend their free time working for free - pun totally intended

Sebastian was hot and cold, behaved like a bully sometimes and I just couldn’t figure him out. Nina was mostly flat and, I couldn’t figure her out either. Other than their shared past

Even the writing seems weird in places, with a few editing mistakes here and there (for example, in one page Sebastian "unwrapped his burger without looking at her" and a few lines down, only after Nina prompts him, "he busied himself unwrapping his burger"...). 

Overall, The Little Paris Patisserie seems rushed and definitely not up to par with the previous books in the series (read my reviews of The Little Cafe in Copenhagen and The Little Brooklyn Bakery). I'm still onboard with this series and hope to post additional reviews soon.

Happy readings!

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