Book Review: Cocktails at Le Carmen

Book: Cocktails at Le Carmen by Isabelle Andover

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Publisher: Simon & Fig

Description:

A delightful debut that harks back to the early days of Chick Lit when heroines were flawed, funny, and forever battling for love and happiness. With quirky characters and classic comedic charm, Cocktails at Le Carmen is pure fun from page one.

When job cuts at Chloe Saddler’s London communications firm result in an unexpected transfer to Paris, she finds herself leaving behind her friends, family, and boyfriend Scott to start a new life in the City of Light. Getting to grips with La Vie Parisienne and keeping a long-distance relationship afloat is not made any easier by the culture shock. Committing the odd French faux pas and inadvertently indulging in a few too many flirtations with her very sexy (and very taken) boss, Jean-Luc, is just the start of it. Factor in her bridezilla of a sister’s wedding (the hottest event of the year in the Saddler family’s social calendar), an unexpected session of hot, naked yoga, a slightly psychotic stalker, and one incredible kiss at an infamous Montmartre nightspot, and Chloe can say au revoir to her old, safe London life and bonjour to the romance, splendour, and glamour of Paris.



Rating: 1 star

Review:

This picture of Beast Boy pretty much sums up how I feel about this book. It was so boring.

Despite the cute cover, the story was flat and the main character Chloe Saddler although supposedly flawed comes across as way too perfect and not to mention totally clueless.

Cocktails at Le Carmen follows 20-something Londoner Chloe who instead of losing her job or being demoted like some at her company, she was instead promoted to a senior level position in Paris. But she's not sure she wants to go because even though she hates to admit it she doesn't want to leave her boyfriend Scott.

However, Scott all but talks her into going but does he have ulterior motives for trying to get rid of her. It seems the case when Chloe while packing up her clothes and found two tickets to New York stuffed in one of the suitcases. But instead of realizing something must be up with her boyfriend, she instead believes he somehow bought those tickets for them to take a trip. She didn't even question him about it, she's totally clueless. And as expected she did inevitably find out he was cheating on her.

I also didn't care for Chloe's time in Paris or her romantic interest in her boss Jean-Luc, this part of the story also didn't perk the book up. Even the ending wasn't that interesting. The story suffered from being too predictable and boring. I guess this just wasn't for me.