Kissed in Paris [Format Kindle]

I loved, loved, loved this story! It is a fast-paced romance that I would highly recommend.

When event planner, Chloe Turner, wakes up in her hotel room in Paris with nothing but a skimpy red dress (not her own), high heels, her underclothes, and a vague memory of the night before, she is in big trouble! Her wedding is in six days, how is she is supposed to fly home with no passport or money? Even her engagement ring is missing! To make matters worse, the police are questioning her over some suspicious activity going on in her bank account. Chloe, who is normally very organized, in control, and ready for any disaster, finds herself in a situation she has no control over!

Julien, a undercover agent, persuades Chloe to go with him. Chloe follows Julien around Paris, evading the police looking for Claude to get her passport back so she can go home. She starts to wonder if she made the right decision, can she really trust Julien? Why is she having these feelings for Julien when she is engaged to Paul? And how is she going to explain all this to Paul? She just keeps getting in deeper and deeper!

From the very beginning of this story it took off and kept going! I didn't know who to believe. I loved Chloe! She kept on trying to figure out how to get out of the mess she was in. All the while she was tired, confused and her feet hurt from the only shoes she had; high heels!

I loved the prologue! It was written as a series of emails between Chloe, her sisters and her boss. It is very telling of her, her relationship with her sisters and her fiance.

I also spotted Charlotte and Luc from Sleeping With Paris! They make a cameo appearance. What fun! I love it when an author gives you a peek at their previous characters!

Kissed in Paris is a fabulous read, and I think you'll enjoy it as much as I did! I just love the cover, too!

Kissed in Paris is the second book I've read from Sobanet. And it did NOT disappoint. This book is a bit more action packed than the first, but that only added something a bit different to it. Kissed was packed with emotion. Sobanet had me laughing out loud, but she also had me in tears. Her easy voice and pacing made the book fly by. Chloe is loveable and Julien is mysterious. Poor Paul! The parts about Chloe's mother are particularly poignant and you need to have out the tissues. You know a book is a great read when you do more cardio at the gym just to keep reading it. Would highly recommend. It's the perfect balance of fun, romance, and adventure. Can't wait for what's next from Sobanet.

This is a difficult book to review because although there were parts of it that I liked, there were things about this book that really drove me crazy. Parts of the story were entertaining, and parts were so overwritten as to be almost unreadable. It's very uneven, in other words, and the bad pretty much outweighed the good for me. For one thing, the setup of the story is entirely too reminiscent of the movie "French Kiss"--right down to the heroine whose baggage is stolen, and the hero trying to recover a stolen valuable so he can save the family vineyard. The second thing about the premise that drove me crazy was that it depended on the heroine being too-stupid-to-live. And she was. Who but a t-s-t-l heroine would believe the ridiculous story the hero uses to get her to follow him all around France? Even the reason she's in France in the first place is difficult to believe. Why would any organization planning a meeting in France bring an American event planner over to handle it? Especially one who doesn't even speak French? The subplot involving the hero's brother, Claude, was pretty close to incomprehensible to me. I never could understand why the police would be chasing after the heroine (who was the theft victim) or accusing her of working with the criminal to steal money from her own bank account. Nor could I believe that American police officers would cooperate with a French investigation of a petty crime to the extent of visiting the heroine's fiancé in Washington DC to question him. It was all just too absurd. Some of the silliness of the robbery plot was overcome by the spirited chase through France and the heroine's burgeoning attraction to the hero. But once the hero stopped being such a mystery to the reader and the heroine, the story really bogged down. It doesn't help that the final act of the story depends on a huge, giant, whopper of a coincidence, and that coincidence marks a steep decline in the quality of the writing--as if the author realized how thin the plot was and tried to disguise it. (Although there were glaring errors sprinkled throughout the book, such as the phrase "praying on innocent women" to describe the thieves.) All this silliness could have been overlooked, I guess, if the love story had been at all satisfactory, but it wasn't. I wish I could have liked this book more, but overall, it was not a successful read for me.