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Paris Noire ReviewPARIS NOIRE by Francine Thomas Howard is not the novel I was hoping for from the author of PAGE FROM A TENNESSEE JOURNAL, her debut novel which I enjoyed very much. Nor is it "a dramatic and engrossing novel that brings to vivid life the remarkable people once relegated to the fringes of history" which the cover description promises.
I was in fact terribly disappointed with PARIS NOIRE. I was anticipating a historical fiction of soaring prose and enthralling storytelling, of war drama and moral value, of cultural and racial issues. I was expecting psychological insight and social observation concerning the black community of Paris in 1944. Instead, what I had on my hands was a romance genre fiction, melodramatic and without subtext, awkwardly written with synthetic construction, contrived plotting, unctuous characterizations and preposterous dialogue.
The narrative is so weak it hardly gets off the ground. The writing is labored with pacing that is clunky and ponderous. The story often collapses under the weight of serious factual inaccuracy simply because the author was unknowing or uncomfortable about the true history concerning World War II, the German occupation of Paris, the French Resistance, the liberation of France, and the role of blacks in the armed services, which she attempted unsuccessfully to incorporate into her narrative for dramatic effect.
By page 50 I came close to tossing the book in the recycle, but I did soldier on and I regret it. Considering I needed to review the book for the Amazon Vine Program, I thought it would be irresponsible of me to not to finish it. So I did read it to completion, but only after much eye-rolling and head shaking. There is, for example, a chapter concerning the French Resistance blowing up a Nazi train that is so ludicrous and written so poorly, I wanted to throw the book against the wall! It reads like Young Adult fiction and the chapter is hardly necessary for driving the plot forward. In fact, the plot of PARIS NOIRE often goes nowhere but dead-ends.
I'm always sorry to write a negative review when I dislike a book as much as this, but I truly resented wasting my precious reading time on this book. I am tempted to rate it with only one star but for those readers who actually enjoy soapy romance stories with cardboard caricatures and deus ex machina endings, I will give PARIS NOIRE 2 stars.Paris Noire Overview

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