Book Review - Twenty-One Nights in Paris by Leonie Mack

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Title: Twenty-One Nights in Paris

Author: Leonie Mack

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Boldwood Books

Publication Date: 6th October 2022

Rating: 5 Stars

Irena and Sacha come from two very different worlds.

An heiress to a fortune, Ren’s home-from-home is the Ritz, while the handsome and brooding Sacha has grown up in Paris’s less salubrious suburbs.  So when an accident brings them together, romance seems an unlikely outcome.

When Ren’s society engagement reaches a very public end, Irena’s over-protective grandmother wants her home in London.  Ren needs an excuse to stay in Paris, and so after some persuasion, Sacha agrees to pose as her new boyfriend. But only for the twenty-one days Ren's grandmother has allowed her to nurse her broken heart before heading home to face the music.

Over the course of three weeks, Ren realises the world outside her exclusive bubble is more beautiful than she could have imagined.  While Sacha reluctantly begins to see the goodness of the woman behind the wealth. When their time is up, will Ren want to return to her gilded cage, and will Sacha be able to let go of the woman he’s been ‘pretending’ to fall in love with…

Let Leonie Mack whisk you off the City of Lights for a tale of love against the odds, and of following your dreams.  Perfect for fans of Mandy Baggot, Jo Thomas and Sarah Morgan.

This needs to be made into a film - it would be utterly perfect on the big screen. It feels like an adult fairy-tale, wrapped up in a love letter to Paris,  set at Christmas, and has echoes of Aladdin running through it. 

It's wonderful and without a doubt my favourite book from Leonie Mack so far.  I even started to think about Paris in a whole new light, as Sacha was showing Ren his Paris, and including many fascinating snippets of history about the city at the same time. 

And Ren watching her grow from the slightly naïve, completely un-streetwise pampered heiress, into who she truly is once she has acquired some freedom, had me hooked and smiling throughout. 

Seeing Ren's wide eyed wonder at Paris at night at Christmas is magical to see, and I just loved the character development at play here. 

And also I fell for Sacha early on, they had a memorable meet cute and from there we get a really entertaining fake boyfriend plot that, that feels different to others in the trope.  

The writing is warm, evocative, descriptive and painted a vivid picture in my mind, one that I would love to see matched on a big screen. After all this book has a little bit of everything you could possibly want in a story, and I was just hooked. 

A wonderful addition to this year's festive reading TBR list, and is completely and utterly recommended by me. 

Thank you to Boldwood Books and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.