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A ridiculous caper book you'll want to skip
The Paris Package started well enough. A woman on her honeymoon in Europe accepts a package to care for from a Jewish friend who has just been arrested by the Nazi's. Of course, the Nazis are after the package, for the thinnest of reasons. And then it gets just plain silly. The woman and her husband make the stupidest possible decisions and get in ridiculous trouble and are always rescued by the most improbable "deux ex machina" deliverance. "We'll jump off the roof." "We'll jump off the train!" "This house has secret passages!" "We'll steal a plane that we just happen to know how to fly and it has just exactly enough gas to get us to our destination for which we have no map." "A stranger in a crowd will save us and just happen to turn out to be the exact person who can help us." "The Nazis find us everywhere we go, but we'll manage to run into more strangers that have exactly what we need!" Ad nauseum. The first half is mildly engaging, but don't bother with the second half which is ridiculous. The writing is fairly good in the first half, but after a while all the "darling" endearments just get infuriating. The dialogue gets tedious, the constant arguing and questions....seriously, skip this one.
October 2018 · Books · verified purchase