Reviewed by True
TITLE: Eight Weeks in Paris
AUTHOR: S.R. Lane
PUBLISHER: Carina Press
LENGTH: 313 pages
RELEASE DATE: June 7, 2022
BLURB:
BREAKING: Lost novel of Bell Epoque Paris, The Throne, comes to the silver screen with an A-list cast. But will on-set drama doom the filming of this gay love story before it starts?
Nicholas Madden is one of the best actors of his generation. His personal life is consistently a shambles, but he’ll always have his art—and The Throne is going to be his legacy.
Then his costar walks off the runway and into rehearsal. The role of a lifetime is about to be sunk by a total amateur.
Chris Lavalle is out, gorgeous and totally green. He has thousands of Instagram followers, a string of gorgeous exes and more ad campaigns to his name than one can count. But he’s more than just a pretty face, and The Throne is his chance to prove it.
If only Nicholas wasn’t a belligerent jerk with a chip on his shoulder and a face carved by the gods.
Eight weeks of filming, eight weeks of 24/7 togetherness bring Nicholas and Chris closer than the producers had dared to dream. Chemistry? So very much not a problem. But as The Throne gets set to wrap and real life comes calling, they’ll have to rewrite the ending of another love story: their own.
REVIEW:
Chris Lavalle is a beauty, a model, and a huge influencer, but not an actor. Still, he got the leading role in The Throne.
Nicolas Madden is the famous actor and leading actor of The Throne, the film adaptation of the same name queer novel. He’s pissed, why give the other leading role to an incompetent influencer, ugh!
Yes, he hates Lavalle and everything he stands for!
If they can’t play these characters the movie will fail.
You get it, the dynamic between them has to be right.
Nicholas is bluntly rude. Chris is used to being spit at, still, it hurts and it’s tantalizing!
Nicholas is closeted, Chris the opposite. But there are similarities and they recognize and acknowledge them.
What we can follow here is how two lonely souls choose the get to know each other, how they get close, as a perfect fit, it’s a slow burn a very slow one, with longing and yearning, the dynamic is intimate and palpable, just like the chemistry. The characters are not what I expected from the blurb, they were so much more. There are several situations to enjoy, the hurt, the love, the commitment, the world of fame, the social media, the mess of scandals, everything was quite entertainingly expressed.
The story felt like poetry, with soft breaths, and tentative touches, against a Parish background, imagine the romantic environments, sigh! Even the moments with ugliness were beautiful.
At some point I disliked Nicholas hugely, but…. he made up for it!
A widely written story, a beauty for the eye, a caress for the soul. It was a long sit, a little shorter, and maybe a little less about the whole movie business would have been also okay with me.
The story takes place in Paris, one of my favorite places!
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