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La Vie, According to Rose by Lauren Parvizi
4.0
adventurous reflective medium-paced

I quite liked Rose. She is a flawed woman in a dead end job where she doesn't get the promotion she expected and she basically mothers her mother instead of the other way around. She is forced on a vacation and decides to run to the romatic city of Paris.

What she finds is not the city she expected. She even feels like she doesn't know herself and can't find herself here. She is guided to parts of Paris with a guy named Kid and somehow meets a childhood friend she hasn't seen in years. She goes through so much hardship in this unknown to her city, but a life she can see living sneaks up on her.

I also loved that there is an art theft that captivates the city when she's there and she'll get more than she bargained for!