Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I really wanted to like this book, so in spite of limited enthusiasm when I read the sample I ordered it. I kept wanting to like it, but the "cinq à six" à repétion (it is "cinq à sept" for the afternoon dalliance), credibility was lacking. Maybe I had hoped too much to read the "real" story about this fabulous find, the forgotten Paris apartment. The story wasn't too bad, but the writing was too much Danielle Steel for me, as though an adolescent had written it for the following masses. I prefer far more "personality" and intelligence in prose. I probably would still be wondering about this book had I not read it...but there is no getting around my disappointment.