Dive into the pages of the bestselling third novel in Juliette Sobanet’s City of Light series for a thrilling ride to Paris that you'll never forget…
When hard-hitting DC reporter Jillian Chambord learns that her twin sister, Isla, has been abducted from a luxury train traveling through the Alps, not even the threat of losing her coveted position at The Washington Daily can stop her from hopping on the next flight to France. Never mind the fact that Samuel Kelly—the sexy former CIA agent who Jillian has sworn off forever—has been assigned as the lead investigator in the case.
When Jillian and Samuel arrive in the Alps, they soon learn that their midnight train isn’t leading them to Isla, but has taken them back in time to 1937, to a night when another young woman was abducted from the same Orient Express train. Given a chance to save both women, Jillian and Samuel are unprepared for what they discover on the train that night, for the sparks that fly between them…and for what they’ll have to do to keep each other alive.
Midnight Train to Paris is a magical and suspenseful exploration of just how far we will go to save the ones we love.
What Reviewers are saying about Midnight Train to Paris:
“This was the most exciting book I've read in a long time.”
“A fabulous modern fairy tale.”
“If there is a sequel, I WILL be reading it.”
“Loved every minute of the story.”
“Exciting, romantic, and full of twists and turns.”
“It's fun, imaginative, well written and really does remind me of film noir.”
“Great writer, great story. I couldn't put it down.”
“Jill and Samuel were THE BEST!”
“Wow, Juliette has done it again.”
City of Love series: Sleeping with Paris Kissed in Paris Honeymoon in Paris A Paris Dream
City of Light Series: One Night in Paris Dancing with Paris Midnight Train to Paris
City of Darkness Series: All the Beautiful Bodies
True Stories in the City of Love: Meet Me in Paris I Loved You in Paris
Juliette Sobanet’s captivating Paris novels have reached over 500,000 readers worldwide, hitting the top 100 Bestseller Lists on Amazon US, UK, France, and Germany, becoming bestsellers in Italy and Turkey as well. Time for that magical journey to Paris? All you have to do is grab your copy of Midnight Train to Paris and you’ll be swept away…
Juliette Sobanet is the award-winning author of five Paris-based romance and mystery novels, five short stories, a book of poetry, a bestselling memoir, and the screenplay adaptation of her first novel, SLEEPING WITH PARIS. Under her real name of Danielle Porter, she is the author of a new thriller titled, ALL THE BEAUTIFUL BODIES. Her books have reached over 500,000 readers worldwide, hitting the Top 100 Bestseller Lists on Amazon US, UK, France, and Germany, becoming bestsellers in Turkey and Italy as well. A French professor and writing coach, Juliette holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and an M.A. from New York University in Paris. She lives between France and the US, and she is currently working on her next novel. Visit Juliette’s website at www.juliettesobanet.com. She loves to hear from her readers!
Yazarın diğer kitabı daha çok hoşuma gitmişti ama bunu da oldukça sevdim 😌 Zaten zamanda yolculuk temalı kitaplara kim bayılmaz ki ?😻 Polisiye/aşk/fantastik konularını içerek oldukça akıcı ve merak uyandırıcı bir kitap yazmış yine yazar . “Yağmurda Dans “ kitabında ayrıca reenkarnasyon da vardı bu kitapta yoktu ve bazı konulardan biraz eksik yazıldığını düşünüyorum yine de okuması oldukça keyifliydi 🙊
Where is Theresa? Paris, Christmas Eve, a time traveling train? Psychic twins, a recreated murder mystery, a love that last through time. This isn't high brow literature by any stretch, but it has you all over it. No more that 270 pages it was a quick breeze, but oh was it fun.
This was a quick, but oh so fun ditty. Felt like it could be a movie. Loved seeing the period piece swirl in my mind. It felt like it would make a great movie. I am not drawn to the others in the series, but if her books became part of a Netflix or Hulu mini-series, I would be so down.
Bu kitabı nasıl bu kadar geç okudum. Müthiş bir gizem, fantastik, macera ve aşk temalarında işlenmiş bir roman idi. Bayıldım. Yazarın diğer kitabını da okuyacağım .
Güzel bir kitaptı yazarın kalemini beğendim, bir kitabi daha var türkçeye çevrilen onu da okumak kısmet olur umarım....
Annelik vasfından yoksun bir kadın tarafından büyütülen ve kötü bir çocukluk ve genç kızlık hayatı geçiren ikiz kız kardeşler, geçmişlerine ait büyük bir sır yüzünden zamanla birbirlerinden kopuyor, Jillian mesleğinde başarılı bir gazeteci olurken, Isla zengin sevgililer, gösterişli bir yaşamla zirvelere oynayan bir kız haline geliyor, tabi bunların hepsi geçmişinde yaşadığı trajedinin üzerini kapatmak için seçtiği bir yol...
Jillian yıllar önce yaşananlar yüzünden ayrılmak zorunda kaldığı, dedektiflik yapan erkek arkadaşı Samuel'i karşısında görünce ona olan hislerinin geçmediğini fark ediyor, ardından ondan içlerinde ikizinin de bulunduğu üç kızın, İsvicre'den Parise giden gece yarısı ekspresinden kaçırıldığı haberini alınca artık geçmişiyle yüzleşmelerinin zamanının geldiğini anlıyor ve asıl olay bundan sonra başlıyor ..
2012 yılından 1937 yılının Doğu Eksperesine gizemli bir yolculuk, geçmişte işlenen, günümüzle ve kendi geçmişleriyle bağlantısı olan başka bir kaçırılma vakası ve ikizlerin arasındaki ruhani bağında devreye girmesiyle merak uyandırıcı bir kitap ortaya çıkıyor. 4,5/5
Kitap bana bayağı kısa geldi. Ayrıca nasıl desem, önce gizemle başlayıp, birden fantastiğe döndü. Hikayeyi sevdim ama akışı birden çok duygusal çok farklı bir hale geldi kiii ben duygusallığın kölesiyim. Demek istediğim “ bu neydi? “ şimdi oldum. O kadar güzel kurgu hızlı anlatım ve hızlı geçişlerle gölgelenmiş. Keşke olaylar hakkında daha çok fikrimiz olsaydı. Fantastik öge yoktu ama fantastikti kitap 🤷♀️
Okuduğum diğer arkadyalardan biraz daha farklıydı. Geçmiş ve günümüzü birbirine bağlayan olayların yanına yazar bir de zamanda yolculuk eklemiş. 1937 ve 2012 yıllarında Lozandan kalkan Doğu ekspresi treninden benzer şekilde kaçırılan üç kadının birbirleriyle olan bağlantısını okuyoruz. Kısa ve merak ettiren bir kitap olmasından dolayı bir çırpıda bitirdim. Yazarın çevrilen bir kitabı daha varmış onu da okumak istiyorum. ☺️
This book baffled me, and not in a good way. It's not like I went in with crazy expectations or anything, but when it comes to time travel, I do have some expectation that it's going to be handled in a logical manner. At least, as logical a manner as time travel can allow. Sobanet never actually explained how her time travel works--it apparently just has something to do with a magic ring that only works on the main characters, even though someone else wears it at one point--but you know what, I'll give her that one.
What I can't give her is all of the other ridiculous happenings in this book. Like how, in the middle of running away from kidnappers and murderers, the two main characters decide to stop and have sex. Or how one of them suddenly gains magical powers. Or how an "immense" castle in the French Alps has apparently gone completely undetected for more than seventy-five years. Or how the link between twins--which the plot relies on, heavily--is inconsistently used and comes and goes at the Sobanet's whim.
Let's talk about that last one for a minute. The book's plot revolves around two twins, Isla and Jillian. Isla has been abducted off the titular "midnight train to Paris," the train in question being the Venice-Simplon Orient Express. Jillian's former CIA agent ex-boyfriend shows up to give her the news, as he now works for a private investigation company which specializes in finding missing people and has been hired by Isla's fiance to find her. Jillian insists on going with him, and from then on they rely on her "twin bond" with Isla to solve the mystery. Oh, and Jillian and Isla also have a Dark Past. Jillian insists that she can always sense when Isla is in danger, with an event in the Dark Past serving as one example and some others in the plot serving as others. But...if that were true, wouldn't Jillian have sensed that Isla was in trouble when the events of the Dark Past started, and prevented them? Wouldn't she have sensed when her sister was abducted and almost killed, instead of needing someone else to show up and tell her? Shouldn't she have been "connected" to Isla for this entire book, rather than the bond just coming and going? One would think.
And can I return to how horribly Sobanet handled the whole time-travel aspect? Jillian and Samuel (the ex-boyfriend and love interest) actually change the past significantly, at least for a select group of people, and yet it has little effect on the future. Never mind that they make it so that Jillian's grandparents never meet and Jillian shouldn't even exist. Instead, they just get a hunky-dory ending that makes it so that Jillian's Dark Past--you know, the events that defined her as a person--never happened. What? Whatwhatwhat? Never mind that they should have opened like a bajillion time paradoxes. No, Sobanet doesn't worry about any of that, because apparently her characters' actions don't have consequences.
I didn't mind the actual writing that much. It did bother me at first, because it's rather tell-y instead of show-y, and instead of writing an actual, emotional scene or dialogue about the Dark Past, Jillian just info-dumps it all. But you get used to the writing style and stop noticing it after awhile. The characters were okay, I guess. I would have liked to see Samuel fleshed out more; he would have made a more interesting POV character than Jillian, in all likelihood. Jillian was a complete moron who apparently doesn't have logical thought processes despite her career as an ace reporter, but whatever. I could get past that. It was Sobanet's awful handling of the plot itself that I couldn't get around.
Oh, and what was the point of the inclusion of the Senator Williams storyline? I get the Dark Past purposes, but it felt the "modern" story of him could have been separated from this one and used in a separate book or something. It just didn't fit well with the time-traveling abduction story.
This wasn't bad - I had it sitting on my kindle for almost 8 years and decided to get it read. But if you are looking for a book that takes place in Paris (as the title suggests), be aware that only the last two chapters happen at the Paris train station. The rest of the book takes place in Switzerland and the French Alps.
Okay, a first person narrative of a time travel story. It’s hard to review because time travel is my very favorite type of book but I’m just not sure of the first person. TO ME, first person is the lazy way to write a book, faster but lazy. With the first person you don’t have to worry about anyone but the hero or heroine. What they think and feel. And I miss going from one place to another to see what others are doing and thinking in a story. I mean, it would have been nice to know what was happening with Samuel when he was in the other room fighting the bad guy, when he got shot what was happening. Yeah, there are all kinds of things wrong with first person.
However, I did like this, even though it really wasn’t a time travel per se. Yeah, Jillian and Samuel went back in time but on a train and into the Swiss Alps. It’s not like they went to town and ooed and aahed over anything. Train and Alps, that’s it. They went back to save a girl who’d been taken from the train in 1937, just like her twin sister, Isla, was in 2012. You saved Rosie in 1937 and you automatically saved Isla, and changed the immediate world them.
It was an interesting story and I did enjoy it BUT I just can’t read a first person time travel and enjoy it the way I’ve enjoyed sooo many other TT books in the past so I won’t be moving on to the next book in the series.
There was graphic sex in this but it was nowhere near erotic, a big plus as far as I’m concerned, and the F-bomb was used 3 times.
As to the narration: A love to listen to Tanya Eby. Her voices and emotions are simply wonderful. It’s just too bad the reading of this book was filled with I, I, I, I, I, I, I.
Jillian Chambord is just getting to crack a big story when her ex, Sam contacts her because her twin sister has gone missing off the Orient Express train. Despite being estranged from her sister, Jillian rushes to Europe to help Sam with the investigation. They quickly find out that this crime mimics a case from 1937 and they end up being transported back to that time to try to solve both cases.
The premise for this book was really interesting. However, I didn't enjoy the writing. This was originally an Amazon serial and I'm wondering if this didn't effect the writing because there was a lot of repetition about story set-up. I suppose if you are writing in episodes that get released periodically, you have to remind the reader of certain things ---- but since I mostly listened to this in three sittings, I impression that I got was that I was being yelled at or hit over the head with a 2 x 4.
This book had a cool concept. Jillian's sister was kidnapped off the Orient Express in a copycat crime from 75 years ago. She and Samuel go off to find the kidnapper. They end up traveling back in time to the night of the original crime. It's a decent story.
The thing is that apparently I could not turn my brain off quite enough and suspend my reality. The main character keeps claiming that she and her twin are connected...if they were wouldn't she have warned her sister somehow and prevented the whole thing. If I had this connection to my sister and something bad was going to happen... I'd be calling her real fast to prevent it.
There are other things as well, if you read it, you would see, but they are spoilers.
The writer doesn't really tell the story so much as she spits out pieces at you.
This was OK. I think it needed more backstory. And yes, I know I was reading a book involving time travel and therefore needed to suspend my disbelief a bit, it strains credulity that little bit too much to just say that things happened for no understandable reason. There's a clear setup for a sequel, which I may or may not read.
Zaman yolculuğu konusunu her zaman çok ilgi çekici buluyorum.Dolayısıyla kitabı da çok sevdim.Zaman yolculuğunun en sonunda hayatlarına olan etkisi beni çok mutlu etti :) Zincirleme olaylar bazen ne çok şeye sebebiyet veriyor......
This book sucked me in & I read it very quickly, although the plot became more & more far-fetched as I got further into the book. Overall it was entertaining & a decent quick, suspenseful read.
جیلیان، دختری خبرنگار است و قصد دارد یک سناتور را رسوا کند؛ سناتوری که دختران جوان را مورد سوءاستفاده قرار داده و به قتل می رساند. با وجود مخالفت های کارفرمایش او مصمم است تا این کار را عملی سازد. از همین نقطه، بیتعادلی داستان آشکار میشود و خواننده را در انتظار کشمکشی جدی باقی میگذارد. در این اثنا ساموئل نامزد سابق جیلیان ظاهر می شود و گم شدن خواهرش ایسلا را به او اطلاع می دهد. اینگونه است که تعلیق وارد ماجرا میشود. ساموئل که اینک یک کارآگاه خصوصی است و وظیفه اش یافتن افراد مفقود شده است، از جیلیان می خواهد تا اطلاعاتی در خصوص ایسلا بدهد. جیلیان که آشفته است، نخست تنها می خواهد در پی ایسلا برود، اما بعد متقاعد می شود که با ساموئل همراه شود. او با ساموئل به خانۀ مورل ها می رود؛ خانواده ای که ایسلا را به همسری پسرشان فردریک پذیرفته اند. آنها متنفذ و پولدار هستند و رفتار فخرفروشانه ای دارند. جیلیان نسبت به این رفتارها حس خوبی ندارد. او به خواسته ساموئل، آنجا می ماند تا اطلاعاتی به دست بیاورد. جیلیان با رفتن به اتاق ایسلا با قاب های عکس خانوادگی و لپ تاپ ایسلا و نامه های او مواجه می شود. او در لپ تاپ ایسلا، عکسی را می بیند که شوکه کننده است؛ سناتور ویلیامز در کنار ایسلا و شوهرش ایستاده است و نامه ایسلا به فردریک که حکایت از عشق ایسلا به شخصی دیگر دارد و به همین خاطر از فردریک خواسته تا به رابطه شان پایان دهند. برای جیلیان محرز می شود که سناتور در گم شدن خواهرش نقش دارد. فردریک وقتی جیلیان را در اتاق ایسلا می بیند، سعی می کند تا از رفتن او ممانعت کند. اما جیلیان فرار می کند و با پشت سر گذاشتن یک سوءقصد خود را به ایستگاه قطار می رساند؛ جایی که ساموئل منتظر اوست. در ایستگاه با خانمی به اسم مادلین برخورد می کند؛ دختر رزی دلانی که یک جعبه به جیلیان می دهد. ساموئل و جیلیان سوار قطار می شوند، اما این قطار آنها را به سال 1937 می برد. آنها با رزی دلانی و دو زن دیگر که در آن سال مفقود می شوند، ملاقات می کنند و طی یک حادثه با عده ای درگیر می شوند و پس از کشمکش فراوان همراه با ساموئل به دنبال رزی و آن دو زن می گردند. در این بین بعضاً صحنه عوض می شود و ایسلا ظاهر می شود و از جیلیان کمک می خواهد. این الهام غیبی بعد از کلی درگیری و همچنین تیر خوردن ساموئل، آن ها را به قلعه ای سوق می دهد. آنها در قلعه با زنی به نام اگنس مواجه می شوند. اگنس مادرشوهر رزی است، رزی که در آن سال با خانواده مورل ها و با الکساندر ازدواج کرده بود، شیفته پدربزرگ جیلیان و ایسلا بود و همین عامل باعث شده بود مثل ایسلا سوار قطار شود تا به عشقش بپیوندد، اما مادر الکساندر که متوجه می شود رزی از ژاک چامبرد باردار است و از آنجا که خودش دخترش را از دست داده است و خیانت رزی را هم تاب نداشت، قصد جان رزی را می کند، البته بعد از تصاحب دوقلویش که مادلین و جورج نام داشتند. اگنس معتقد بود ثروت خانواده مورل ها را فقط زن ها می توانند حفظ کنند و به همین خاطر می خواست دختر رزی را تصاحب کند. در واقع همین حادثه سال ها بعد یعنی 2012 تکرار می شود و این بار ایسلا و دو زن دیگر ناپدید می شوند و البته سناتور ویلیامز نیز اضافه می شود که در واقع معشوقه هلن، مادر فردریک است و با او همکاری می کند. جیلیان با کشتن اگنس در زمان گذشته، آینده را تغییر می دهد؛ به طوری که زندگی خودشان نیز عوض می شود؛ زندگی ای که با سناتور ویلیامز گره خورده بود. زمانی که رزی ربوده می شود، ژاک چامبرد با فاحشه ای ازدواج می کند که نتیجه آن دختری است که بعدها مادر جیلیان و ایسلا می شود. وقتی پدر آنها را رها می کند، سناتور ویلیامز با مادرشان رابطه برقرار می کند و ناخودآگاه ایسلا نیز وارد جریان رابطه می شود. همین عوامل موجب می گردد تا جیلیان مادرش را بکشد و ایسلا از سناتور کینه به دل بگیرد و با نزدیک شدن به مورل ها سعی در انتقام دارد. اما جیلیان با کشتن اگنس باعث می شود رزی به ژاک برسد و دیگر با فاحشه ای ازدواج نکند. بدین ترتیب جیلیان و ایسلا نوه های رزی و ژاک می شوند، با پدر و مادری مهربان. جیلیان با ساموئل ازدواج می کند و ایسلا بدون برخورد با سناتور به عشقش کریستوفر می رسد. سناتور نیز به سزای اعمالش می رسد و توسط هلن طی مشاجره ای عاشقانه کشته می شود.
Evet, artık Luliette Sobanet'i takibe almış bulunuyorum; çünkü Siyah Kar çok ama çok güzeldi! Hele yazarın anlatımını ayrı sevdim, beğendim. Türkiye'de çıkmış tek kitabı bu. Yayınevine buradan sesleniyorum, diğer kitaplarını bekliyorum.
Kitabın konusu orijinaldi. Olaylar insanı öyle sürüklüyor ki... sırlarla hem iç içe geçiyor hem de onları kovalıyoruz resmen. Gerçekten kitabın her sayfası ayrı bir serüvendi.
Şimdiki zamanla geçmişin iç içe geçtiğini düşünün... Verilen yaşam ve kurtarma mücadelesini... Bir de kitapta zaman yolculuğu olayı var, arka kapak yazısında bunu okuyunca acayip ilgimi çekmişti ve kitapta, konuyla bir bütün olarak okumak... gerçekten çok iyidi.
Güçlü kadın karakterler, bu kitapta da bizimle ve bu kitabı daha okunası yapıyor. Aşk ise olmazsa olmazımız. Güç delisi insanlar gerçekten 'deli'! Bu derece olamaz dedirtiler yahu.
Sonuna doğru farklı bir soru işareti belirdi kafamda, yani yazar son ana kadar insanı tereddütte bırakmaktan vaz geçmiyor.
Kitabın konusu; Gazeteci Jillian Chambord'un, ikiz kardeşi Isla kaçırılmıştır. Jullian'ın eski sevgilisi ve aşkı Samuel Kelly 6 sene sonra bu kaçırılma olayının dedektifliğini yapmak üzere ortaya çıkmıştır.
Saklanan sırlar, söylenen yalanlar ve tarihin tekerrür etmesi ise her şeyi daha içinden çıkılmaz hale getirirken, geçmişe yapılan yolculukla Jill kardeşini kurtarabilecek midir?
This book was decent, up until the final third. I thought the characters were incredibly well written. The dialogue and descriptions were good. It’s about a journalist whose sister goes missing, and in the middle of her investigating, she solves the case with her ex-boyfriend/friend, Samuel. The novel involves time travel, and is a mystery, with very, very light romance thrown in. It’s historical as well. I really enjoyed the side characters, and the relationship between the sisters and the journalist and her boyfriend. I also appreciated the authors note at the end. I didn’t realize it was third in a series, so something to consider if reading in order is important to you. The beginning and middle were fine. The end was so flat that I fell asleep multiple times reading it/trying to finish it. It didn’t detract from the story at all though, and I’d read more books by this author. I enjoyed the romance between Samuel and Jillian, and appreciated that it was kept light. This book gives Murder on the Orient Express vibes. Give it a try. 3.75 out of 5 croissants.
Torn between 3 and 4 stars on this one, so maybe 3.5? I give it 4 stars for an atmospheric setting in an iconic city. Props also for a noir-ish vibe and for the author crafting a story that compelled me to keep turning the pages. I deduct a star for the quirks and uneven handling of time travel and twin connections as well as for a few other borderline outlandish elements Despite how far-fetched a few things became, I still enjoyed the story. A nice escapist read, if you can really suspend disbelief.... :)
This is the first book by this author I have read and it was a fun read. Jillian is a journalist in D.C. who has not heard from her twin, Isla for awhile. Jillian's ex-boyfriend comes looking for her to tell her that Isla is missing and has been abducted off the Orient Express on the way to Paris. Jillian has a message from her on her cell that was interrupted in the middle of the call. They go to Switzerland to see Isla's fiance a very wealth Frenchman who is friends with a senator who they hate from their childhood. The story goes on from there with lots of danger and they are on the Orient Express on the way to Paris when suddenly they are back in 1937 with another young lady being abducted. Now not only are they trying to save Isla but a young lady in the same situation in 1937. A must read.
Plot intricate and pretty well thought out. (Different authors have many different ways of dealing with the inevitable plot holes that go with any time travel scenario.) Given the author's education level, I can only assume that the rather pedestrian writing style is a conscious choice, and that the target audience is Y A or below. Pretty enjoyable, though.
I wasn’t sure at first, not having much experience with books on time travel, but the more I got into this book, the more it grabbed me. And worried me — I like happy endings. The author very cleverly wove the story between time periods. The closer I got to the end, the more difficult it was to put down. Lots of tears and much satisfaction with the ending.
I have enjoyed other time travel books which, by definition, involve some sort of unreality. This book, however, was too unreal, too far-fetched for me. I was hooked at first into both the 1937 and the 2012 stories, but when the time travel began I disconnected.
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. Love Tanya Eby as narrator. The story had me so entranced while at work that it kept me focused and my daynflew by.
Originally a story in serial form, this time travel story is one of my all-time faves. Ms. Sobanet has a way of bringing Paris, regardless of the year, to brilliant life. A beautiful, timeless love story.
Farklı fantastikimsi bir polisiye diyebilirim bir günde biten sürükleyici bir kitap. Bazı fantastik klişelerini görmek göz devirmeme neden olsada sevdiğim bir kitap oldu Emojilerle özetlemek gerekirse: 👭💑🔪💉❄️🚞
This is the first novel by Juliette Sobanet that I've read, and it definitely will not be my last. Just the right amount of romance, mystery and edge of your seat feelings to know what happens next! I could not put this story down, read it in one day!