It’s the turn of a Manhattan Heiress by Amanda McCabe on the blog today. Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and Mills and Book for the copy of the book I return for my honest review.
Step into the roaring 1920s Parisian music scene
Leaving Manhattan…
For a secret Parisian affair…
New York darling Elizabeth Van Hoeven has everything…except freedom. But now Eliza’s traveling to study piano at the Paris Conservatoire and falling for jazz prodigy Jack Coleman in the process! A love like theirs is forbidden back home, and as they make beautiful music together under the Parisian lights, Eliza and Jack face a difficult choice: the life they’ve always known, or the possibility of a life they never could have imagined…
A historical romance set in 1920s Paris by an author whose work I have read before. I was looking forward to having a jaunt back in time with the characters the book introduced me to.
We meet Elizabeth, and she feels constricted by the expectations placed upon a woman of her station in life. She goes to Paris and discovers a freedom she has never experienced before. Jack is a black musician and at the other end of the social scale to Elizabeth. Two people who would not be allowed to be together back in their home country of America find love with each other.
Amanda McCabe’s depiction of Paris swept me off my feet so fast. I felt like I had travelled back to the 1920s and France. I loved Eliza and Jack. Their whole romance was amazing to me. They were made for each other even if upstanding society would deride them both.
It is a story that doesn’t just bring light romance. It deals with the racism and bigoted views of the time. How black people were seen as less than white people. How women were treated so differently from men. The inequality that both characters experience is a draw for them both. Amanda McCabe weaves this story to make it an entertaining one without allowing the negatives to overtake the story.
It’s an immersive story that easily blends the fictional romance with the real people of that time. It made it so real for me. I was so carried away with the book that I forgot everything else but Eliza and Jack. Another Mills & Boon book that is so readable!
Purchase Links
UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/Manhattan-Heiress-Paris-Mills-Historical-ebook/dp/B0BCHK5PCJ/
US https://www.amazon.com/Manhattan-Heiress-Paris-Amanda-McCabe-ebook/dp/B0B3DYDW9D
Author Bio
Amanda wrote her first romance at the age of sixteen–a vast historical epic starring all her friends as the characters, written secretly during algebra class (and her parents wondered why math was not her strongest subject…)
She’s never since used algebra, but her books have been nominated for many awards, including the RITA Award, the Romantic Times BOOKReviews Reviewers’ Choice Award, the Booksellers Best, the National Readers Choice Award, and the Holt Medallion. She lives in Santa Fe with a Poodle, a cat, a wonderful husband, and a very and far too many books and royal memorabilia collections.
When not writing or reading, she loves taking dance classes, collecting cheesy travel souvenirs, and watching the Food Network–even though she doesn’t cook.
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