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One Paris Summer
One Paris Summer | Denise Grover Swank
10 posts | 13 read | 8 to read
Most teens dream of visiting the City of Lights, but it feels more like a nightmare for Sophie Brooks. She and her brother are sent to Paris to spend the summer with their father, who left home a year ago without any explanation. As if his sudden abandonment weren't betrayal enough, he's about to remarry, and they re expected to play nice with his soon-to-be wife and stepdaughter. The stepdaughter, Camille, agrees to show them around the city, but she makes it clear that she will do everything in her power to make Sophie miserable. Sophie could deal with all the pain and humiliation if only she could practice piano. Her dream is to become a pianist, and she was supposed to spend the summer preparing for a scholarship competition. Even though her father moved to Paris to pursue his own dream, he clearly doesn't support hers. His promise to provide her with a piano goes unfulfilled. Still, no one is immune to Paris s charm. After a few encounters with a gorgeous French boy, Sophie finds herself warming to the city, particularly when she discovers that he can help her practice piano. There s just one hitch he s a friend of Camille s, and CamillehatesSophie. While the summer Sophie dreaded promises to become best summer of her life, one person could ruin it all."
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Victoriahoperose
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This was cute! A nice light read for right before the holiday with romance and tension. I enjoyed this one!

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LoriAnnBailey
One Paris Summer | Denise Grover Swank
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I'm not usually a reader of YA, but I found this a quick interesting read.

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PurplePeopleReader
One Paris Summer | Denise Grover Swank
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This is a book you don‘t want to think too much about — what I like to think of a beach read. Just breeze through it and enjoy the fun, cute parts. Because of that, this took me very little time to finish once I started focusing on it, and overall, I enjoyed it. I think younger teens would enjoy this a lot, but there isn‘t a lot of crossover appeal for older readers simply because the conflicts feel overly dramatic.

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CameesBookishLife
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Cute YA romance , good characters, good story. A bit cliché but I still liked the happy ending. I would've like a bit more depth to the characters and feel their emotions more. Plus being a a French Canadian , I spotted a few mistakes when using french, but It wasn't too bad. 7/10 ⭐️

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stacybmartin
One Paris Summer | Denise Grover Swank
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This was pretty typical YA but I enjoyed it! Not quite as good as Anna and the French Kiss (one of my favorites). I needed this light summer read after all the dark books and Game of Thrones I've been watching.

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stacybmartin
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Starting my selection for book club tomorrow night (nothing like procrastinating!) - the theme is a book set in France. It's an ARC that I picked up at BookCon.

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Teenreadsdotcom
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“Atmosphere, mood, setting, addictive writing...this story had it all….ONE PARIS SUMMER was entertaining, oftentimes funny and most of the time filled with heart.”

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http://www.teenreads.com/reviews/one-paris-summer

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Cabookle
One Paris Summer | Denise Grover Swank
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Characters were underdeveloped and annoying, plots were boring, forced, and unbelievable. The conversations between the MC and her dad were always the same. I had high hopes for this Paris set summer romance but was highly disappointed.

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jaimearkin
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Overall, a sweet, fun, coming of age story. There were things I loved and others, not so much. This would make the perfect summer read! I am definitely looking forward to reading more from Swank in the future.

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