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The Brightest Star in Paris by Diana Biller
5.0
My favorite fictional family has taken over Paris in this delightful sequel to The Widow of Rose House. The Moores are charming and hilarious as they welcome Amelie and her sister into their hearts.
Diana Biller’s magical writing brings a second-chance love story to life in The Brightest Star in Paris.
Amelie St. James, also known as “St. Amie,” is the prima ballerina for the Paris Opera Ballet and has spent the last several years protecting the safe life she has built for her sister, Honorine. But suddenly her life is turned upside down when the only man she’s ever loved, Dr. Benedict Moore, returns to Paris and ghosts from her past start haunting her. Under the disguise of a fake courtship, Ben and Amelie discover the healing power of love.
The Brightest Star in Paris is heartbreakingly beautiful and so romantic, and I loved every moment of it. Ben and Amelie have complicated pasts, but Biller’s magical words make the reader cheer the characters on as they reach for their happily ever after. Amelie is a fantastic heroine. She’s strong and determined and will do whatever it takes to protect and give Honorine a good life. When circumstances bring her career to a halt, she has to figure out who she is away from the “St. Amie” façade she has hidden behind all these years. And Ben is the sweetest hero ever and definitely on my list of favorite doctors. He is such a passionate and caring man and wants to save the world. And he's completely gone for Amelie. Spoiler Alert: he gifts her a book!
Content Warnings:
- Discussion of the Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune
- Flashback scene during the Siege of Paris
- Grief and anger about parental death and flashback scene of Amelie’s mother suffering from the symptoms of syphilis
- Discussion of war
- PTSD
- Carriage accident and amputation surgery
- Blackmail
- Lifechanging injury
Diana Biller’s magical writing brings a second-chance love story to life in The Brightest Star in Paris.
Amelie St. James, also known as “St. Amie,” is the prima ballerina for the Paris Opera Ballet and has spent the last several years protecting the safe life she has built for her sister, Honorine. But suddenly her life is turned upside down when the only man she’s ever loved, Dr. Benedict Moore, returns to Paris and ghosts from her past start haunting her. Under the disguise of a fake courtship, Ben and Amelie discover the healing power of love.
The Brightest Star in Paris is heartbreakingly beautiful and so romantic, and I loved every moment of it. Ben and Amelie have complicated pasts, but Biller’s magical words make the reader cheer the characters on as they reach for their happily ever after. Amelie is a fantastic heroine. She’s strong and determined and will do whatever it takes to protect and give Honorine a good life. When circumstances bring her career to a halt, she has to figure out who she is away from the “St. Amie” façade she has hidden behind all these years. And Ben is the sweetest hero ever and definitely on my list of favorite doctors. He is such a passionate and caring man and wants to save the world. And he's completely gone for Amelie. Spoiler Alert: he gifts her a book!
Content Warnings:
- Discussion of the Siege of Paris and the Paris Commune
- Flashback scene during the Siege of Paris
- Grief and anger about parental death and flashback scene of Amelie’s mother suffering from the symptoms of syphilis
- Discussion of war
- PTSD
- Carriage accident and amputation surgery
- Blackmail
- Lifechanging injury