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Book Review: The Muse by Lauren Blakely

The Muse by Lauren Blakely
The Muse by Lauren Blakely
The Muse by Lauren Blakely
The Muse by Lauren Blakely

Title: The Muse (Beautiful Magic #1)
Author: Lauren Blakely
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Julien Granier is a connoisseur of fine art. Art speaks to him. Now he unimaginably begins to live it. At night at the Musée d’Orsay it comes to life to breathe, entertain and interact with him. A beautiful experience only he sees. 

“Museums are like churches for art. Sacred spaces or holy ground or something.”

When a new Renoir is scheduled to show, Julien immediately feels connected to the woman in the painting. He can’t wait until she comes to him and can interact with him. When she finally comes to life, he is sunk in love with Clio, a woman unlike any he’s met or imagined.

“Yes, that’s it. We come like pilgrims to an abbey to see them.”

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Release Blitz: The Muse by Lauren Blakely

The Muse by Lauren Blakely
The Muse by Lauren Blakely
The Muse by Lauren Blakely

Title: The Muse (Beautiful Magic #1)
Author: Lauren Blakely
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date:
19 March 2021

Summary:

The first time a woman stepped out of a painting, I thought I was seeing things. 

The second time, I thought I was going mad. 

The night she emerged from a Renoir, I felt something else entirely — a deep stirring of desire, and the wish to get to know the brilliant beauty who’s been trapped inside a painted garden for years. 

She can only come out at night in the Musée d’Orsay, where I work. There, after hours, we wander through galleries, with the Van Goghs, the Monets, and the Toulouse Lautrecs the only witnesses to our midnight kisses and, soon, our trysts. 

She opens her heart to me, and I learn her story.  

But she keeps secrets too, ones I hope to unravel. Why she was trapped. Why Renoir is hunting her. And why artwork in famous museums across the world is starting to disintegrate. 

Why I, too, seem to be the only person who can repair the masterpieces. 

As I fall deeper for the woman who’s trapped in a museum, I’m caught up in another side of Paris after dark, one inhabited by forgers, ghosts of famous artists and, impossibly, by Muses. 

But someone is after the woman I’m falling in love with, and it’s up to me to save her…even if it means losing everything I’ve found with her. 

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