The Paris Architect: A Novel

from MarkMeg

Lucien, a second rate architect, is enlisted by Auguste Monet to find hiding places for Jews in Paris within their homes that can not be detected by the Germans. In return Monet guarantees him jobs designing factories for the Germans. Lucien gets deeper and deeper into the role of helping the Jew...

from bookczuk

This book just didn't work for me. I liked the architectural details, but the voice of the main character didn't ring true to me. I really wanted to like it as it was given to me by a guy I saw every week at PT, reading it in the waiting room while his wife got treatment. He commented that I alwa...

from nicole_a_davis

The writing was really blunt--nothing poetic or elegant about it, and the characters were not very well developed, so the combination made getting through this feel a bit like a chore. Luckily the plot was just interesting enough to make me want to keep going and see how it would end, but i was g...

from juniperSun

The blurb I read made it sound pretty interesting, but really there was more romance among dilettantes than I wanted to read. I got about halfway, then read the ending, then went back & skimmed to find out what happened to his wife. I'm tired of reading about rich people who only care about thems...

from juniperSun

The blurb I read made it sound pretty interesting, but really there was more romance among dilettantes than I wanted to read. I got about halfway, then read the ending, then went back & skimmed to find out what happened to his wife. I'm tired of reading about rich people who only care about thems...