I am a huge fan of Kristin Harmel and I was delighted to get the opportunity to review her newest book All the Diamonds in Paris. The story is set in a dual timeline in 2018 in America and in the 1940s in Paris. The central character is Colette a French teenager that has been taught to steal by her mother to help those in need. I loved this book and I devoured it over a course of a day!

“When we find ourselves in darkness, we can’t wait for the light to find us.”

Without a doubt, this book will be in my top 2025 reads!

An 89-year-old looks back at her life as a wartime Robin Hood ~ stealing from the Nazis and collaborators to give to the French Resistance.

This book is about:
✔️Rebalancing the scales of justice and the lifelong effort to do so
✔️Desperately finding a home in a broken world
✔️Our identity and what shapes us
✔️loss, grief, secrets
✔️Being forced to do illicit things for the greater good in wartime

My takeaway: We are all capable of doing extraordinary things to effect change; become an agent of change

I was gifted this extraordinary book by Headline and NetGalley and was under no obligation to provide a review.