This was a long one...at first I started reading it - but then I switched over to audiobook and it went much faster. That being said, I think the first third (half) of the book was also unnecessarily long. I do understand we had to truly know the characters and the situations...and how they got to where they are later in the story. But the entire part pre-arrival in Paris felt like an entirely different book. It wasn't until all the connections started coming together that I really began to enjoy the story (and appreciate all of the detail in the first third/half).

*I read this as part of the 2023 Popsugar Reading Challenge (advanced) - "The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list"

Read Book through Chapter 23, then switched to audiobook.