Book Review: Hotel Pastis


Book Information:
Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence is a book by Peter Mayle published in 1993. You’re in for a bounder of a story about Provence including some English official (who, for this situation, is named Simon) who has had enough of the business world and experiences passionate feelings for the south of France. More often than not for the creator, the most vivid characters are the French villagers the primary character experiences, yet Mayle turns this on his head, acquainting us with a tough American advertisement executive named Ziegler who, in my imagination, was Dolph Ziggler from WWE and adorable Ernest, Simon’s valet, and a testy questioner with the wonderfully Dickensian name of Ambrose Crouch. In the middle of purchasing an incapacitated gendarmerie and transforming it into lodging, Simon begins to look all starry-eyed, rubs elbows with the Mafia, criminal bricklayers, and gets associated with a hijacking.
Book Review:
Hotel Pastis is one of the greatest novels I have read in a long time. It was beautiful, written with so much passion. Reading it made me fell in love with Provence and Luberon and made me promise myself that one day I’ll visit those refreshing places. The novel had a totally unique theme, one of its own kinds. The characters were amazing and I instantly fell in love with them, the description of the characters and the places was awesome. The detailing of food, French cuisine was the best thing as it made my mouth water several times. In each case, this novel deserved a full rating and I wonder why this beautiful novel wasn’t filmed. It’s a must read as it is a thought-provoking novel with a very strong base. It is among those novels that get your attention from the first page and you can’t keep it down until it is complete. It’s totally unpredictable and is so full of life that reading it refreshes your mind. You can tell the creator was a promotion man like the primary character as he gives excessively much insight about the fundamental character and insufficient about a portion of the other real characters, for example, the sweetheart and the head servant, indeed, there’s a steward. The wrongdoing secret takes up all of around thirty odd pages yet it’s a fun expansion and I need to concede that I didn’t figure the completion. I do need to caution you – this book will move you to take long relaxed, multi-course snacks and consider leaving your place of employment. Not the best alternative for a get-away book – much excessively enticing. This is a brilliant, speedy read that has every one of the signs of Mayle’s perfect, yet flowery written work, featuring his capacity to turn a superb yarn loaded with vital characters that influence the reader to visit Provence if just to get a look at the district that so rouses the writer.

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