Until Leaves Fall in Paris Book Review

About the Book

As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but she finds a way to aid the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages of her books.

Widower Paul Aubrey wants nothing more than to return to the States with his little girl, but the US Army convinces him to keep his factory running and obtain military information from his German customers. As the war rages on, Paul offers his own resistance by sabotaging his product and hiding British airmen in his factory. After they meet in the bookstore, Paul and Lucie are drawn to each other, but she rejects him when she discovers he sells to the Germans. And for Paul to win her trust would mean betraying his mission.

Master of WWII-era fiction Sarah Sundin invites you onto the streets of occupied Paris to discover whether love or duty will prevail.

My Thoughts

Simply put, this novel is a work of art! I could not get enough of the streets of Paris through the lens of a quaint bookstore, a ballerina with many hidden talents, and an engineer with a heart of gold. Many times, I thought tears would come streaming down my face from the events these characters faced. The further I went into the story, the more I needed to know how it would end.

I’m relatively new to Sarah Sundin’s books having only read her other standalone novel When Twilight Breaks, but there’s no doubt that Sundin is a premier voice for WW2 fiction from a Christian perspective. Until Leaves Fall in Paris earns a worthy 5 stars!

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**I’m so excited to be able to create jewelry for this book! Creating for When Twilight Breaks was one of the highlights of last year, and this book was overflowing with possibilities – I cannot wait to get started!