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The Parisians
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In occupied Paris, one woman risks everything to help bring down the Nazis.
Paris, 1940. The Nazis have occupied the city - and the Ritz. The opulent old hotel, so loved by Parisians, is now full of swaggering officers, their minions and their mistresses.
For American Olivia Olsen, working as a chambermaid at the hotel means denying her nationality and living a lie, every day bringing the danger of discovery closer. When Hitler’s right-hand man moves in and makes her his pet, she sees an opportunity to help the Resistance - and draw closer to Jack, her contact, whose brusque instructions may be a shield for something more....
Within the hotel, famed designer Coco Chanel quickly learns that the new regime could work to her benefit, while Arletty, one of France’s best-loved actresses, shocks those around her - and herself - with a forbidden love.
But as the war reaches its terrible end, all three women learn the true price of their proximity to the enemy. For in the shadow of war, is anyone truly safe?
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- CozD
- 2022-12-21
Riveting !!!
Fantastic! Imaginative and outs you right there along with these well developed characters. Such great use of language and if nothing else, expect your vocabulary to increase to an impeccable standard. Goosebumps throughout . Putting the Ritz, Paris, my bucket list!
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- CaliReader
- 2019-02-03
Not another WWII Book
This book was about the characters and their struggles and their amazing tenacity while WWII was going on in the background. Some very interesting takes on collaboration and occupation I haven’t read before. Even without the interesting characters and plot, I liked this authors prose and the narrator did an excellent job!
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- Barbara Lay
- 2019-01-31
Performance annoying
The narrator constantly taking deep, loud breaths numerous times during each sentence was extremely annoying, she takes 'breathy' to a new level. it was do annoying I could not complete the hook even though I am a fan of the author. What a waste!!!
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- Traci J
- 2019-02-05
Another great book by Marius Gabriel
I chose this book because I loved The Ocean Liner and The Designer. This was another winner. Interesting characters and a great performance by Karissa Vacker. I was sad for the book to end. I highly recommend this one.
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- paula wright
- 2019-01-26
I’ll never look at Chanel the same.
Good story showing how cruel the nazis were but what bothered me the most was the collaboration of rich famous French people with the nazis People were being starved to death and coco and Arletty were dining on pheasant in wine sauce and asparagus and three kinds of wine with their German Nazi lovers They got off VERY easy too I felt like the author glorified these people. He certainly didn’t condemn it Wonder what his people did during www2
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- Debra Case
- 2019-02-01
Horrible performance
Couldn’t get past chapter 2. Narrator sounded silly and constantly took gasping breaths. Was really looking forward to this book, so guess I’ll read the print version.
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- AmazonCc
- 2020-02-03
Reason for gay sex
That seems to be what the Paris backdrop is for. This was truly an awful book.
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- Nicole
- 2019-05-21
Had potential, misses on story and execution
I think the story overall is fairly decent for a WWII fictional novel - not a lot of depth to the characters but some fascinating elements to the story of WWII at The Ritz that I was not aware of previously. Ended abruptly to me, but that just might be me..
The narrator was EXTREMELY irritating with her constant breath intakes that sounded like she was in need of medical attention all throughout the book.
I would have returned the book at once due to this, but wanted to see where the story would go and tried to ignore the constant breaths. I wish I could say that the story was so good that it was worth it, but I cannot.
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- Evelyn Schumacher
- 2019-01-26
Detailed, intriguing, hopeful
This was a very complex story of Paris as it fell under Nazi rule. Brave people have their lives to be free. Excellent
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- RueRue
- 2020-05-02
Equal parts history and romance
The best thing about this story are the discriptions of Paris during the Nazi occupation. The author did a decent job of incorporating real people into the narrative. The fictional characters were pretty much stereotypes. Great narration; she was excellent with the variety of accents.
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- DAW
- 2019-08-16
Unfortunately, not as good as I anticipated ...
I did like the fact that this book was a mixture of historically correct events and people, mixed with various other characters. Thank Goodness for Coco Chanel and Arletty! Those two women made the book worthwhile reading.The novel has a little bit of everything. It’s a general love story that includes collaborators, resistance fighters and spys in occupied Paris. At times I found it tedious and boring. At other times it was engrossing. I honestly can't recommend this book.
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