Novel Nerd Blog - Book Reviews by Smitha

  MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW Set in Paris, a beautiful city day and night, during World War 2, The Last Train from Paris is an engrossing, and intriguing dual-time thought-provoking novel. Loved the awesome writing style of the author and the pace at which the sequences take place.  1964: Iris wants to know who she is, she was visiting her adopted mom Nora at St Mabon's Cove, Cornwall as she is visiting from London. She could ask questions to her mum as she held her certificate of adoption she had first seen. No mother, No father, No hint of who she might have been, or even an exact place of birth. It seemed such a vague statement of her existence in the copy she had in her hands. She was born in 1939 the year war was declared in a country that is unlike Cornwall. She had always known that she was adopted but seeing Mum Nora and Dad named on an unofficial document had made it real. The adoption certificate was dated 1950, five years after the war had ended.  1939: Sabine...

  BOOK REVIEW AND MY THOUGHTS The plot in a nutshell with many diverse characters, within one family and among friends, and a home having an apparent connection to each other. Having crafted this novel pretty cleverly as it revolved around the Racine family, the story takes a twist in the beginning chapters when Gil Racine, the predatory publisher of New York is poisoned at his piano and brutally murdered that night at the Christmas party. Steven and Olivia when invited to the party are set to investigate the murder and find the killer among them.  I really enjoyed the setting and the timeline of the book moved wonderfully between 1934 to 2014. A great camp Onontago in all its glory and warmth, especially decorated for Christmas and snowflakes hitting the window and three feet of snow around them, a time for trekking as well. Getting out of the sub-zero temperature and the brutal snow was out of the question for Steven and Olivia. Where did the poison come from? Why was G...