Book Review: Mac on the Road to Marseille

Book: Mac on the Road to Marseille (The Adventures of Mademoiselle Mac book #2) by Christopher Ward

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Publisher: Dundurn

Description:

Fifteen-year-old Mackenzie returns to Paris to attend the Christmas Eve wedding of her Dad's old friend, Rudee Daroo, and the love of his life, dancer Sashay D'or. Mac is told about the annual New Year's taxi road rally, this year hosted by the Marseille Marauders, the nastiest lot of drivers you've ever seen.

Partnered with hulking cabbie Blag Lebouef, Mac manages to convince her parents that the road rally is more like a carefree drive in the French countryside than the death-defying cutthroat rivalry it's always been. Negotiating brutal weather, cryptic signage, outright sabotage, random flocks of sheep, and zigzagging back roads, Mac and Blag might be the perfect combination of cunning and brute strength, though they are both extremely strong-willed and rarely agree.

On the road, she makes the startling discovery that the clues the drivers have been given during the rally could lead to the discovery of some valuable missing artwork. Is that worth losing the rally over?



Rating: 2 stars (Did Not Finish)

Review:

What I read of this ranged from being okay to boring, I read up to chapter 8 before I stopped reading. This started out very interesting but after awhile I just couldn't connect with the writing, many of the characters or the way the story was unfolding.

The story takes place in Paris and was mainly about several famous paintings not only being stolen but replaced with near copies. The thefts interested 15 years old Californian Mackenzie who was in Paris with her parents attending a family friend's wedding. She also found herself entered in a taxi road rally as the navigator for one of the drivers. This was as far as I got.

I was really hoping that this would improve as the story moved along but it just started to drift and so did my interest in reading more of it.