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The Mist of Montmartre

By: Peggy Kopman-Owens
Narrated by: Steve Ember
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Surviving on the streets of Paris as an artist's model had been difficult, but Laura wanted to be remembered on canvas, as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings had been immortalized. In another place and time, Laura's alliance with the rich and powerful of Paris might have cost her head. However, this was 21st-century France, where the rich and the poor had learned to negotiate tolerance.

Olivette, Franz, Rudi, Gretchen, Martine, Gaston, and Nicolai chose Montmartre, where they had become soldiers in a war against ennui and mediocrity, putting on their canvases and taking to their beds - other men's wives, other wives' husbands, and the whores willing to follow them into battle. When one of the richest men in Europe offers to make Laura his wife, she must choose which one she has become.

©2018 Peggy Kopman-Owens (P)2019 Peggy Kopman-Owens
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A character study

This experience was outside my comfort zone, since I usually read fast-paced crime novels these days. Also, I am a fast reader and there is no way to speed up the read when a narrator sets the pace.


The characterisation is excellent and were I only being asked to rate that feature alone, I'd have rated the book highly. Unfortunately, the repetitive nature of the writing made the story tough going at times. Often, I felt like I was falling asleep at the wheel. The final chapters were, however, well-written and most enjoyable.


I was asked particularly to review the narrator and I'd have to say his voice is clear with a lovely deep tone. However, if I am being honest, he made the book sound boring, more so that it actually was, I thought. I honestly fell asleep several times, lulled by the monotone speech.

I am positive I'd have enjoyed the book far more had I read it on a kindle or in paperback.
But, I must add, I am very glad I was asked to try an audible book for the first time in my life....I know to avoid them in the future and stick to my usual page-turning...

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