Anne-Laure Thiéblemont

A woman learns that her dead father wasn't so dead, instead he had walked out on her mother and created a new life with a new identity. And, now he is really dead and she has inherited his collection. But there is one condition, she must find and buy back 3 objects that he has sold. But there are people out there ready to kill for the objects...

I think the idea of the book is interesting with Marion Spicer learning about her now for real dead father and the conditions for her to be able to inherit his collection. Unfortunately, I just couldn't get into the story, it felt so muddled and both story and characters lacked any real depth. Afterward, I just sat there and thought; "that it?". The book was really too short to really give the story the space it needed. You never really got to know the characters, and everything happened in just in a few days. I mean Marion Spicer slept with one of the persons in this story after just meeting him the other day. She is worried that someone is trying to kill her and she decides to sleep with someone that could be the one that is after her? The characters had potentials to be interesting, but everything felt so rushed. Her friend Chris was introduced and apparently he has marriage problem and Marion doesn't like his wife. Why do they have marriage problem and why didn't she like the wife? And, speaking of problems. The case, the statues, I found the ending just feel flat when everything was explained.

This book would have worked better for me if the story had been more developed if the character had had more room to grew to feel more lifelike so that one could care for them. And, the story dragged despite the fast tempo with everything happening during a couple days. The book had potentials, but it would have needed some more tinkering.

Thank you Le French Book and Edelweiss for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! … (altro)

So, your dad is a shady underworld art thief. When he dies, he may or may not have left you a collection, that might or might not be legitimate. This is Marion Spicer's lot. The collection in question is a set of pre-Columbian statuettes. There's a series of works of art Marion has to find before she can inherit. It quickly becomes evident that Marion is entering a dangerous world where people's actions are not necessarily legitimate, or legal. In this whole fiasco Marion proves remarkably willing to enter situations about which she should absolutely know better. Marion is no novice in the art world. She works for a Paris gallery, detecting forgeries. While the plot of this book moves quickly, it felt disconnected. I never quite felt like everything hung together.… (altro)

I received this book for free from Early Reviewers. This book was a good read. The premise is about a art investigator who finds out her father was an art collector and rich and winds up trying to find rare sculptures in order to get her inheritance. However, there are complications along the way. It was a fast read for me because I just wanted to know who the killers were.

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