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Take Me There #3
That Weekend in Paris
Woman scorned? Maybe. When award-winning songwriter Dillon Blake heads to Paris to see country music star Klein Matthews perform in concert, she has a bit of an ax to grind with her soon-to-be ex-husband Josh Cummings. She’s considering starting her own Nashville publishing company, and her first goal is to sign Klein away from Josh. After all, Dillon is the one who brought Klein to his attention seven years ago after hearing him play at the Bluebird Cafe in a writers’ round. She’s not proud of her motivation, but then Josh robbed her of any desire to play fair when he’d had an affair with a Vanderbilt co-ed. What Dillon hasn’t taken into consideration, though, is the fact that seeing Klein again reminds her of the intense attraction she’d felt for him the first night they’d met. She’d been married to Josh then and spent a number of counseling sessions addressing her guilt for the thoughts she’d had about him, but had finally agreed with her therapist that it was okay to be attracted to someone as long as you didn’t act on it. But so much has changed since then. Dillon’s failed marriage has made her question everything she thought to be true about vows and commitment. And she’s in the city of love, staying in the same luxury hotel as Klein. The attraction is still there, despite the therapy sessions. Turns out, he’s attracted to her, too. The question is, do they act on it? Or not?
275 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 7, 2020
About the author
Inglath Cooper
69 books961 followersVirginia author Inglath Cooper fell in love with reading as a little girl, devouring most of the books in her elementary school library. At some point, she decided she wanted to pursue a writing career, creating romance fiction that did for others what her favorite books have done for her. “I love character-driven books that leave me feeling as if I’ve really known these people and make me wish I didn’t have to turn the last page.”
“Romance fiction has always appealed to me because it deals with so many of the relationships in a woman’s life. Not only the love of her life, but often her relationship with her mother, sister or best friend. Romance authors have so much room to explore many of the meaningful moments and transitions in women’s lives. And who doesn’t love a good love story?”
Inglath most often writes stories about love and life that are set in small Virginia towns like the one where she grew up. “I like to think the flavor of my hometown shows up in my books both in their setting and through the characters who people it.”
When aspiring writers ask her how to be an author, she says, “Everything I know about writing books I learned from reading books.”
Inglath has been chosen as a RITA® Award winner for best long contemporary romance novel given out each year by Romance Writers of America. Her books are available through Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, itunes.com, and Kobobooks.com.
Outside of writing, Inglath is actively involved in dog rescue, working with The Franklin County Humane Society to place dogs and cats in need of rehoming. She volunteers her time in every capacity possible: serving on the Board of Directors, fundraising, photographing dogs and cats available for adoption and serving as a foster home. “Helping an abused or neglected dog go on to have a wonderful life with a family who loves them is more rewarding than I can possibly say.”
“Romance fiction has always appealed to me because it deals with so many of the relationships in a woman’s life. Not only the love of her life, but often her relationship with her mother, sister or best friend. Romance authors have so much room to explore many of the meaningful moments and transitions in women’s lives. And who doesn’t love a good love story?”
Inglath most often writes stories about love and life that are set in small Virginia towns like the one where she grew up. “I like to think the flavor of my hometown shows up in my books both in their setting and through the characters who people it.”
When aspiring writers ask her how to be an author, she says, “Everything I know about writing books I learned from reading books.”
Inglath has been chosen as a RITA® Award winner for best long contemporary romance novel given out each year by Romance Writers of America. Her books are available through Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, itunes.com, and Kobobooks.com.
Outside of writing, Inglath is actively involved in dog rescue, working with The Franklin County Humane Society to place dogs and cats in need of rehoming. She volunteers her time in every capacity possible: serving on the Board of Directors, fundraising, photographing dogs and cats available for adoption and serving as a foster home. “Helping an abused or neglected dog go on to have a wonderful life with a family who loves them is more rewarding than I can possibly say.”
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May 20, 2020
Quick quarantine read!
As Shakespeare said "If music be the food of love, play on.” And, with that I've finished reading the 'Take Me There' series by Inglath Cooper. This is yet another love story between a music star and a simple girl.
What makes romantic stories beautiful is not the story itself but the conversations between the two people. And, Inglath does a fine job at that. Communication is indeed key. It's the little conversations in her writing at times that makes you pause, smile, think, retain the thought and then move on to the next sentence.
This is a take on how a relationship from making all the difference dissipates into indifference. How there is no more anger in you, no fire that has petered out, and, in its place, there is only a sense of peace now. And when you've found that peace in you, you hope there will be for the other person as well.
I only wish at some point writers stop the annoying habit of starting each chapter with a quote at the heck of sounding intelligent when there's little to no correlation to the plot line!
As Shakespeare said "If music be the food of love, play on.” And, with that I've finished reading the 'Take Me There' series by Inglath Cooper. This is yet another love story between a music star and a simple girl.
What makes romantic stories beautiful is not the story itself but the conversations between the two people. And, Inglath does a fine job at that. Communication is indeed key. It's the little conversations in her writing at times that makes you pause, smile, think, retain the thought and then move on to the next sentence.
This is a take on how a relationship from making all the difference dissipates into indifference. How there is no more anger in you, no fire that has petered out, and, in its place, there is only a sense of peace now. And when you've found that peace in you, you hope there will be for the other person as well.
I only wish at some point writers stop the annoying habit of starting each chapter with a quote at the heck of sounding intelligent when there's little to no correlation to the plot line!
February 29, 2020
Like all the other Inglath Cooper books I’ve read, I couldn’t put this one down. I think I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again. Her stories are a slightly racier version of a Hallmark movie love story and I can’t get enough of them.
March 18, 2024
This book is essentially reading a Hallmark movie. So much cheese, but just what I needed on the flight back from NZ.
July 24, 2020
The cliche plot continues with woman wronged by cheating husband. Runs away to European city,. Meets handsome younger guy, who both insist they're different worlds can't collide. But do and end up living happily every after. A boring trend in these three stories, made worse by irrelevant quotes at the beginning of each chapter.
Don't think I can stand to read another one of her predictable fiction stores.
Don't think I can stand to read another one of her predictable fiction stores.
December 8, 2020
One of the worst books I've read this year. I read her first one and liked it but this is juvenile. Cooper's sentences are something a grade schooler would write, she repeats things over and over. Then the end just happens. Nothing to prepare for it, it's just there. Absolutely ridiculous. Don't waste your time IMO.
April 4, 2020
There was sloppiness in the writing of this one. I usually really like Inglath Cooper’s stories. I found the dialog and described emotions very stilted and repetitive. And, if I’m not mistaken, when the husband picks her up from the airport, did they not leave her car in long term parking?
August 15, 2020
Having read the other two books in this series and being a bit disappointed in the second book, I was not surprised by the similar beginning (divorce, falling in love with a younger man) but was happily surprised that this one kept me engaged from page one!
October 29, 2025
if i could give it zero stars i would
December 19, 2020
Ugh. I don’t even know how to review this book. Quick and easy read, and I am looking for escapism these days, but this story was so ridiculous. So unfinished. So little detail. And this weird skipping ahead of 14 months at the end, and a neat little tying up of the story in a way that made no sense.
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September 25, 2020Meh. Didn’t like this one as much as the first two. Dillon and Klein’s initial meeting was hot and sparks were flying. When Dillon takes off to meet up with Klein in Paris the connection they once had fizzled out and I had a hard time trying to stay into this book. And then to top it all off Riley, Klein’s ex evil girlfriend basically got away with poisoning him because of “tampered evidence.” And that to me, was the nail in the coffin in this book.
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June 29, 2026
I don’t know. I loved the plot and enjoyed the read but I have strong feelings about why I wouldn’t rate this highly.
1. The foreshadowing was a lot but I know that’s preference. I loved the way things happened but didn’t need to know about it. Example: I like the fact that she switched his vitamins because that was unexpected but revealing it so early made Klein’s “I think I’ve been poisoned” statement, her “kind” text, and then later confirmation of poison pretty anti-climactic.
2. Almost halfway through the abortion thing came up and I just get the ick sometimes when this is thrown into a book. Klein said he felt grief for an aborted group of cells (that he knew about in the same breath that he found out was terminated) “the same as if I held the baby in [his] arms”? No. Anyone can go ahead and think that all they want, that is absolutely not the case. That’s like saying breaking up after the first week of dating is the same as breaking up a year later. Or that losing a parent when you’re 3 is the same thing as losing them when you’re 30. With time and experiences and growth, there’s a bigger attachment and more grief. Grief on the earlier side is grieving what you didn’t get to have. It can be depressing and terrible and no one can discredit that, but saying it’s the same? Respectfully, shut the fuck up.
Also note on this, it’s okay to insert your opinions as an author and it’s okay for a character to have opinions on touchy topics, but I did not appreciate the approach or the repetitiveness of it.
3. For the love of god, Dillon, stop crying. He’s not your knight in shining armor and I don’t know a single person that breaks out into sobs like that. On the night he gets the baby phone call, tears for the first time there would’ve been gut wrenching and I probably would’ve cried with her. Instead, I was just like okay so we’re crying again.
4. Timeline of baby made no sense. It seemed like she just got pregnant and broke up and then she was giving birth. 0 chronological order of context for that.
5. You don’t wake up at 10am the day after a flight from Europe….that would be 5pm in your internal clock? Be for real.
6. Meeting in the Louvre and getting a kiss would’ve been a *chef’s kiss* ending. A marriage proposal after 14 months of not seeing each other or trying to make it work after falling for each other during a few days of vacation? Major eye roll.
That’s the problem with love and lust, people get the two confused and think they have feelings for the person they’ve made up in their heads. It irritates me in real life and it irritates me on paper.
Side note: Also can someone really be as evil as Riley? Like I know they can but did she have to be this evil in the book? I’m not sure how much it added vs just being a flawed person that became manipulative and made mistakes to make it more believable. Also, the suicide thing was horrible. I don’t have another word for it.
1. The foreshadowing was a lot but I know that’s preference. I loved the way things happened but didn’t need to know about it. Example: I like the fact that she switched his vitamins because that was unexpected but revealing it so early made Klein’s “I think I’ve been poisoned” statement, her “kind” text, and then later confirmation of poison pretty anti-climactic.
2. Almost halfway through the abortion thing came up and I just get the ick sometimes when this is thrown into a book. Klein said he felt grief for an aborted group of cells (that he knew about in the same breath that he found out was terminated) “the same as if I held the baby in [his] arms”? No. Anyone can go ahead and think that all they want, that is absolutely not the case. That’s like saying breaking up after the first week of dating is the same as breaking up a year later. Or that losing a parent when you’re 3 is the same thing as losing them when you’re 30. With time and experiences and growth, there’s a bigger attachment and more grief. Grief on the earlier side is grieving what you didn’t get to have. It can be depressing and terrible and no one can discredit that, but saying it’s the same? Respectfully, shut the fuck up.
Also note on this, it’s okay to insert your opinions as an author and it’s okay for a character to have opinions on touchy topics, but I did not appreciate the approach or the repetitiveness of it.
3. For the love of god, Dillon, stop crying. He’s not your knight in shining armor and I don’t know a single person that breaks out into sobs like that. On the night he gets the baby phone call, tears for the first time there would’ve been gut wrenching and I probably would’ve cried with her. Instead, I was just like okay so we’re crying again.
4. Timeline of baby made no sense. It seemed like she just got pregnant and broke up and then she was giving birth. 0 chronological order of context for that.
5. You don’t wake up at 10am the day after a flight from Europe….that would be 5pm in your internal clock? Be for real.
6. Meeting in the Louvre and getting a kiss would’ve been a *chef’s kiss* ending. A marriage proposal after 14 months of not seeing each other or trying to make it work after falling for each other during a few days of vacation? Major eye roll.
That’s the problem with love and lust, people get the two confused and think they have feelings for the person they’ve made up in their heads. It irritates me in real life and it irritates me on paper.
Side note: Also can someone really be as evil as Riley? Like I know they can but did she have to be this evil in the book? I’m not sure how much it added vs just being a flawed person that became manipulative and made mistakes to make it more believable. Also, the suicide thing was horrible. I don’t have another word for it.
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November 16, 2021
This author definitely has a preference for tall men with broad shoulders, six-pack abs, dark wavy hair, and a devastating smile. But then, who doesn’t?!? Her heroine is an aggrieved wife whose slimeball of a husband has cheated on her with the nubile 20-something at the office. The hero is a talented, humble and shy country boy with a troubled past and an impressive music career ahead of him. He’s been saddled with a narcissistic, manipulative, toxic gold digger of a girlfriend who will do anything to anyone to ensure she gets whatever she feels she deserves in life.
The two main characters- she’s Dillon and he’s Klein- are thrown into each other’s company in the romantic “City of Lights” while escaping from their toxic relationships, if only for a short while. Neither her husband Josh nor his parasite Riley are about to give up on the best thing in their lives, of course so Dillon and Klein return to reality briefly to get closure on these “mistakes” before they can forge a new life together. I just love a happy ending where the nice people finish on top!
The two main characters- she’s Dillon and he’s Klein- are thrown into each other’s company in the romantic “City of Lights” while escaping from their toxic relationships, if only for a short while. Neither her husband Josh nor his parasite Riley are about to give up on the best thing in their lives, of course so Dillon and Klein return to reality briefly to get closure on these “mistakes” before they can forge a new life together. I just love a happy ending where the nice people finish on top!
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October 8, 2020
Another interesting read, by this author. That Weekend In Paris, made me want to go back.
I can see why Dillon decides to go & to stay @ the exclusive Ritz Paris.
Dillon is a country song 🎵 writer, and an artist Country singer Klein Matthew's is staying their too.
Dillon's marriage is over, she's thinking about starting her own company & wants Klein to come with her.
One of the reasons why she's in Paris. Heck, sounds good to me.
Paris is a beautiful country. Could Dillon find new love 💘 there?
Anything is possible, right?
With a cheating husband back home 🏡, would it be awesome if Dillon could snag Klein for her new label.
Heck yeah!!!!!!
So this is where this story is headed.
Good read, made me nostalgic for Paris again.
I've got to go back, there is so much that I didn't get to see.
But I think you will like this one. I surely do.
Now on to my next reading 📚 adventure.
Happy Reading!!!!
Ciao💋
I can see why Dillon decides to go & to stay @ the exclusive Ritz Paris.
Dillon is a country song 🎵 writer, and an artist Country singer Klein Matthew's is staying their too.
Dillon's marriage is over, she's thinking about starting her own company & wants Klein to come with her.
One of the reasons why she's in Paris. Heck, sounds good to me.
Paris is a beautiful country. Could Dillon find new love 💘 there?
Anything is possible, right?
With a cheating husband back home 🏡, would it be awesome if Dillon could snag Klein for her new label.
Heck yeah!!!!!!
So this is where this story is headed.
Good read, made me nostalgic for Paris again.
I've got to go back, there is so much that I didn't get to see.
But I think you will like this one. I surely do.
Now on to my next reading 📚 adventure.
Happy Reading!!!!
Ciao💋
June 26, 2024
•2.75⭐️ round up •
A cheating husband, a psychopathic girlfriend.. and chaos in between.
After Dillion’s husband cheats on her, she decides to still go on the weekend trip to Paris to meet up with Klein, a well known country musician, in order to get him to sign with her company, and leave her husbands.
~•~
wow! this "weekend" was longer than expected!
Honestly, Inglath’s books are fast-paced, super easy to read, in a poetic way.
But this one felt a bit dragged out for a “weekend” setting.
It was heading is a good direction, but she kept steering away from it, a lot of points were mentioned but weren’t followed up by an elaboration or explanation.
A lot was predictable, and some were confusing.
If you need a quick read or a palette cleaner. I’d recommend this book. Just know it’s not as fast as her other books.
A cheating husband, a psychopathic girlfriend.. and chaos in between.
After Dillion’s husband cheats on her, she decides to still go on the weekend trip to Paris to meet up with Klein, a well known country musician, in order to get him to sign with her company, and leave her husbands.
~•~
wow! this "weekend" was longer than expected!
Honestly, Inglath’s books are fast-paced, super easy to read, in a poetic way.
But this one felt a bit dragged out for a “weekend” setting.
It was heading is a good direction, but she kept steering away from it, a lot of points were mentioned but weren’t followed up by an elaboration or explanation.
A lot was predictable, and some were confusing.
If you need a quick read or a palette cleaner. I’d recommend this book. Just know it’s not as fast as her other books.
August 4, 2020
This is the third book I've read in this series during quarantine.... They are all pretty much the same story: heartbroken, ordinary girl goes to a fabulous vacation spot (Tuscany and Barbados were the other locations) to get over her jerk husband and meets fabulous good looking famous boy and then a crisis hits. They were all exactly the same just with different characters and SOOOO predictable and I didn't even care! I still thoroughly enjoyed this cheesey romance, I just can't give it more than 3 stars.
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January 31, 2021
3.5 ⭐️ I love Inglath Cooper - her books are easy, entertaining reads! This book was tough to rate because if you’ve read the first 2 books in the series (they’re all unrelated with different story lines) this book felt very similar to “That Month in Tuscany”. I was excited to read this with Paris being one of favorite cities in the world, but there was little inclusion of the charm of the city. I also thought the ending was a bit odd with the 14-month jump. But overall I was interested the entire story and it made for a good read!
May 8, 2021
3.5 really
I struggled with the setting of this book...which was also the name ...when I read a book set in France I want all the feels of the foods and the wine and the scenery. I was never indulged. This could have been set in Nebraska for all I knew if they didn’t actually say France. There was more talk of how many showers the characters took than of anything actually French. Overall, the story was cute but the author has way better reads in my opinion. I will read others of hers though.
I struggled with the setting of this book...which was also the name ...when I read a book set in France I want all the feels of the foods and the wine and the scenery. I was never indulged. This could have been set in Nebraska for all I knew if they didn’t actually say France. There was more talk of how many showers the characters took than of anything actually French. Overall, the story was cute but the author has way better reads in my opinion. I will read others of hers though.
June 17, 2021
I am so glad I found this book. It blew my expectations away. How the characters reacted to things was fresh and well thought out. The relationship between Dillon and Klein was beautifully written and nothing happened out of place. I wanted to scream at the book at some points and say “don’t do this” or “don’t do that” because of a not so good characters actions. This was an extremely great story about how not all good things come easily. Sometimes it takes time.
October 2, 2024
interesting and very well written
I have been enjoying this series by a newer to me author. Of the three books (so far?), this one was set up a bit differently. And while the setting (Paris, French countryside, the Louvre) was thrilling and lovely to read, portions seemed to drag a bit and the underlying plot was a bit startling. This was my least favorite of the series, but still pretty good.
I have been enjoying this series by a newer to me author. Of the three books (so far?), this one was set up a bit differently. And while the setting (Paris, French countryside, the Louvre) was thrilling and lovely to read, portions seemed to drag a bit and the underlying plot was a bit startling. This was my least favorite of the series, but still pretty good.
April 29, 2020
Like many other Inglath Cooper books, That Weekend in Paris is a quick fun read. I felt it ended very quickly, would have liked to see more Riley/Klein/Dillon once Klein and Dillon returned to Nashville. also felt the Josh storyline was either not needed or needed a little more to close his arc. Regardless, story was beautifully written with some lovely imagery around the chateau.
September 28, 2020
Country music star in Paris?
Though unexpected, this idea of a country music star and successful songwriter kind of works. There are some twists and turns in the story but it all works out in the end. Some nice life lessons scattered throughout the tale, sweet romance, and twists to the plot make this an entertaining read.
Though unexpected, this idea of a country music star and successful songwriter kind of works. There are some twists and turns in the story but it all works out in the end. Some nice life lessons scattered throughout the tale, sweet romance, and twists to the plot make this an entertaining read.
May 26, 2021
Disappointing book
I thought this book was okay even though it had so much potential. The author just let me read and skip pages as the dialogue just dragged at times. I gave it three stars because of the delve into songwriting and can't say much else about it. Disappointed yet relieved I finished it.
I thought this book was okay even though it had so much potential. The author just let me read and skip pages as the dialogue just dragged at times. I gave it three stars because of the delve into songwriting and can't say much else about it. Disappointed yet relieved I finished it.
July 7, 2022
Sweet Duet
Inglath Cooper is a magical storyteller. You know her romances will have a happy ending, but the journey to that end is always compelling. She keeps the reader emotionally invested in following the couples as they navigate the tricky waters of side relationships and other obstacles that threaten to keep them apart. This tale of two Nashville musicians finding new love hits all the right notes. Just lovely.
Inglath Cooper is a magical storyteller. You know her romances will have a happy ending, but the journey to that end is always compelling. She keeps the reader emotionally invested in following the couples as they navigate the tricky waters of side relationships and other obstacles that threaten to keep them apart. This tale of two Nashville musicians finding new love hits all the right notes. Just lovely.
February 10, 2020
Wonderful book
This is a book that draws you in and doesn't let go. I loved reading every word and wanted to savour each one. I hated for it to end. I have read every book by this author and am always looking for the next one to come out.
This is a book that draws you in and doesn't let go. I loved reading every word and wanted to savour each one. I hated for it to end. I have read every book by this author and am always looking for the next one to come out.
April 1, 2020
Great getaway! Made you feel you were in Paris!
Liked the description of hotel, food and chateaus! Characters were real and interesting made you want to find out how their story ended.
Liked the description of hotel, food and chateaus! Characters were real and interesting made you want to find out how their story ended.
May 29, 2020
That Weekend in Paris is a wonderful summer escape. Light and lovely, this book allows the reader to travel through the sweet spots of France from the comfort of home. Enjoy drama, excitement, loss and love. An enjoyable easy read.
August 16, 2020
Heartwarming and believable
What I like is the integrity of the characters. The change of heart and outcome is good for all, not without heartbreaking circumstances to deal with. This book causes me to think back in my life.
What I like is the integrity of the characters. The change of heart and outcome is good for all, not without heartbreaking circumstances to deal with. This book causes me to think back in my life.
May 22, 2021
Goodread
This isa super story .you never quite know wether they will ever get together. But as in all good romance novels,they all live happily ever after. Just the way I like them to end. If only real life could be the same. I will keep on dreaming and reading rom-coms
This isa super story .you never quite know wether they will ever get together. But as in all good romance novels,they all live happily ever after. Just the way I like them to end. If only real life could be the same. I will keep on dreaming and reading rom-coms
February 16, 2022
Cute love story!!
I feel in love with Klein and Dillon. There time in Paris was such that you could imagine yourself there. It was a quick and easy read. Just what the doctor ordered!
ENJOY!!
MARY C
I feel in love with Klein and Dillon. There time in Paris was such that you could imagine yourself there. It was a quick and easy read. Just what the doctor ordered!
ENJOY!!
MARY C
March 19, 2024
This book by itself probably would have been fine. However reading it back to back with the other 2 in this series has me annoyed with the plot line 🙃🫠 it’s cliche and a mix between the first 2 books🤪
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