Cat is mostly happy with her life, she loves her apartment furnished with vintage pieces she has lovingly restored. She is in love with her merchant banker boyfriend, Christian, even if his friends aren't really her cup of tea. So what if she doesn't really like her job, she'll leave someday.
So when Cat receives a mysterious letter claiming she has inherited the estate of a Frenchwoman she has never heard of she is intrigued.
On arriving in Paris she realises the story is much more complicated than she thought and it becomes her own mission to find out why Isabelle de Florian would leave her legacy to Cat and not her own family.
Will Cat get to the bottom of the truth? Will she find a little more than she expected along the way?
I chose this novel as I was staying in Paris at the time and thought it would be interesting to see if any places I'd visited would be mentioned, I didn't realise that it was based on a real life happening. The story itself is completely fiction but the author was inspired when reading of the apartment locked for 7 decades in the news.
I enjoyed the story very much although I had predicted the outcome pretty early on I was still invested enough to see it through to the end.
However the writing was bad! The dialogue was often repetitive and at times I had to reread certain paragraphs as it wouldn't make sense and I felt like I had skipped parts.
I didn't feel like much depth had been applied to the characters. It was as though the author was trying to create a veil of ambiguity surrounding them but actually it just served the reader with a lack of connection and therefore it was a struggle to empathise with any of them.
I don't think I will be reading any more in the Time Capsule series.