I was in a bookstore searching, inquiring, going through all the stalls for Colleen Hoover's books but the battle search just lead me into this book. I knew right away when I saw this book that I've marked it as my "to read" book. With the money intended to buy Colleen Hoover's books but since there aren't available yet, I gambled on this book. It's quite expensive from its neighboring paperbacks but I know there was something special about this book that made me want to buy it. I actually held it for awhile because I might come across with lesser valued book with a great story but I just saw myself standing in front of the cashier, grabbing a grand, the bar code scanned, handing the money to the girl, have the amount typed, handing me my change, get's the receipt, putting the book inside the brown paper bag with red print and grabbing the item and shoving it inside my bag. So in short, I bought it... 
 Anyway, ever since I read Anna and the French Kiss I got so in love with Paris! That I started buying a planner with the Eiffel Tower emblazoned on it, sticky notes with anything Paris, pens and a lot more!!! I got so excited when I knew that one of the settings of the book is in Paris... but not like other books which's story often happens in the Eiffel Tower, Lourve, Notre Dame... the book touched on places I've never heard but got my interest into it. It showed a different facet of Paris. A facet that only a true Parisian can tell but was successfully put into words and descriptively liven up by the writer. 
 The book was more on self-discovery and having a say in Life. Allyson, unfortunately, had her life plotted chronologically by her parents. She was the kind of daughter who every parents want to have. Obedient, understanding, respectful, studious, submissive, adventure averse person, good girl... Until after she arrived from her European tour that everything that she was once known started making her ask herself if that's the kind of girl she still wants to be or if she wants to be the person she has made herself up when she was in Paris.... Care free, independent, happy, always thirsty for adventure! 
 I'd like to elaborate more on this book but I'd be giving out spoilers. Anyway, I love how this book was different from those that I have read. I love how she has found herself during her journey and how far she came to find the answers to her year long questions and she has transformed herself to becoming the person she always want to be.