![]() ![]() ![]() The protagonist is 17-year-old French-Indian-Muslim-American Khayyam, who is spending her summer in Paris with her professor parents like they do every year. The art history mystery, the inspiration and “real” life of the characters from the past, the setting of Paris in the summer, the fight for woman to be heard are all so well done and compelling and interesting that this romp that blurs fact and fiction might deserve a read, but you have to overlook the forced love triangle, excessive kissing, be willing to suspend reality regarding Alexandre Dumas, Eugène Delacroix, and Lord Byron, artifacts and sleuthing, but if you can do all that, this 337 page book for 9th grade and up, is definitely fun and hard to put down. ![]() My guess is, she would identify herself as a romance YA author, and yet consistently in her works, that is the most lacking part: the character building and forced romances. Like in Internment, the premise in this book is amazing, but other parts are just cringe-y and painful and really, really unnecessary. This is the third one I’ve read, and while she is definitely getting better, I still don’t know why her editors don’t fix her flat notes. I really should give up reading Samira Ahmed books. ![]()
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