Paris for One and Other Stories

This book was a perfect “beach read”: not too in depth, hard to follow; rather just light and airy. Hence the 3 ⭐️. In a normal situation, this would have been a critical view. Lack of depth of characters, lack of sequential plot, but this was perfect for the situation. I wanted something that would fill in the gap between the heavy novels I've been reading. I demolished this in (just about) one sitting. It is an extremely easy read (the first half is a longer short story and the rest are various shorter short stories encapsulated into one book). Seriously, having read many many JoJo books, I can tell you that for what her characters lack in depth, it makes up for in story. Things in her stories just seem to make sense when glancing at them. Though upon further analysis you would find many flaws. For this reason I rather prefer to not have any grand literary expectations for her books. It's better if they just are what they are. They aren't award winners or historical list shatterers. But: the woman knows how to write a (borderline cheesy) romance novel. This one was great for light reading and would recommend for someone who didn't have any expectations for a light beach read.

It was an ok collection of stories. A nice, quick read but nothing too fantastic.

It's a book of short stories, but the big draw for me was Paris for One. You can guess how all of these stories will go, but sometimes that's all we want from a book.