"Both Paris, the venerable City of Light, and Rutherfurd, the undisputed master of the multigenerational historical saga, shine in this sumptuous urban epic." - Booklist[REF] .
A columnist for The Telegraph , however, gave it a rather scathing review calling the novel "swollen", "encyclopedic" and saying further that "character and plot are blithely sacrificed on the altar of trivia with every turn of the page."[REF] .