Chasing Paris [Kindle Edition]

Loved Jen Carter's book, Chasing Paris. The structure of the book is unique and fun. The characters are vivid and believable. As a fellow writer, I take my hat off to Jen for conceiving this book and writing something that even young people can read without freaking out their parents for fear that there will be sex, drugs, or curse words. Jen doesn't need such things in her book. In fact, I am grateful to Jen for not giving in to the pressure that currently exists "to write what sells" which lately seems to be voyeuristic, crude, and seems sex soaked. Jen just tells a good story using interesting characters and she manages to be literary without being stuffy. Let's all buy Chasing Paris and change the trend toward good stories again, what do you say? ! I have it on my iPad and I have the hard copy plus my book club is also reading it!

This book was a total relief! I am a 30-something wife and mother, and I really enjoy reading. I am either still too young, or now too old to be into what seems like a lot of the fiction out there these days. I want a good book that I can relate to, that intrigues me, but without the cussing and erotica that I often find in fiction books. I am not sure what the target audience age-range is for this, but I think my niece (senior in high school) will also enjoy it, and my mom is now reading it. One of the characters reminds me of my husband and I couldn't help but to say to him: "This is so you" at several points. Hah! At any rate, it is a good one

Chasing Paris by Jen Carter is one of those books that I will be highly recommending this year. It's about a girl. Her biological grandmother dies, but all of her life she knew another woman as her grandmother. More and more secrets come out as she searches for the truth.

It's about sisters. It's about love. It's about finding identity. It's about understanding. This book is about so many things. And right from the beginning the reader is thrown into the story. The pace was simply perfect. And the multiple plots fit like puzzle pieces, but they weren't so parallel that they were identical. The author gave away so many big secrets at the beginning of the story that I was worried the ending wouldn't be a big revelation, that it would be played up too much for the hype it deserved. It deserved the hype. The ending wasn't mind-blowing, but it wasn't disappointing. It rang true and natural.

The characters really intrigued me. One reminded me of Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Kim, if you are wondering who I mean) and the others I simply couldn't get enough of. I had a little trouble with the college boys, they weren't quite 'boy' enough. They said things that were simply too sensitive for a college boy to say. I loved them nonetheless. One other pet peeve of mine, there were a lot of typos - missing words - and it threw me off, but not enough to dislike the story.

Honestly, you must read this book. It was a great escape for such a normal, everyday adventure.

I received this book from the author for review.