Review: Coco Chanel Saved My Life by Danielle F. White
My Thoughts:
A must-read. With a secret ingredient of Chanel N°5.
★ ★ ★ ★ .5
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Synopsis:
The story of the little black dress that mended a broken heart. Perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella. Rebecca is thirty-three years old, has a wardrobe full of tweed trouser suits and a boundless passion for the splendid Coco Chanel. She is romantic, dreamy, and madly in love with Niccolò, whom she is about to join in Milan, after a year being together long distance. But as soon as she gets to Milan, Niccolò confesses to her that he has fallen in love with another woman. So Rebecca finds herself in a city she doesn’t know and with a broken heart. How would her idol, the great Coco, have reacted? After spending several days confined to her flat, Rebecca plunges herself into the intense Milanese social life, and with the stylishness of her heroine, savours the feeling of being a desirable woman. Will she remain an eternal mademoiselle, like the ageless Coco? Or does destiny have unexpected surprises in store for her?
My Review:
Ah, the mere mention of Coco Chanel made me turn these pages with excitement, but then in the process of devouring them I find myself discovering a phenomenal new author too, even tho Rebecca isn’t the kind of lead girl a love in books she definitely was a catch. The quotes of Coco Chanel were not only well written, but they never stopped being interesting, engaging, exciting, and quite impossible to put down.
The story of a woman in her 30s, which can’t help herself to need a man to feel complete or think that’s what she needs at this point of her life even when she doesn’t want to get marry. She can be a bit annoying sometimes thinking she needs to get pretty for her man or that she’s too old and doesn’t have a man by herself in a serious relationship. Somehow in the middle of finding out she needs to focus on the good things and that the right man is going to chase her and no the other way around she find the strength to enjoy her job and herself. This is a story consistently woven with emotions and longing and great characters.
Rebecca aka Coco was in her 30s with a broken heart and a bad past relationship – almost too quickly she gets in this friends with benefits relationship with Niccolo with who she practically was having everything but she didn’t wanted to push him to label their relationship until one day Niccolo left her with nothing more than a broken heart, a lot of regrets, a new apartment, new job that she doesn’t like and in a new city. She finds herself crying over him and making fairy-tales of what could have been.
So what if you don’t have the chance to re – write your past? But instead you can start writing a new future. She plots a new system, of course getting a new adventure without getting attached and enjoy what she does. And she does, she goes out, tries blind dates but still her hearts is into pieces and it’s a working process to heal it.
Etienne, successful CEO of Seven who Rebecca thought was a simple good looking errands boy, has felt utterly bewitched by the woman with sheath dresses and love for Coco Chanel from the moment he caught her in his arms, but he needs to come clean with Juliette first, what starts merely as a casual hi and coffee quickly turns into more and he’s ready to win coco at all costs.
He’s all Rebecca wants but has a package a fiancé and she is tired of being #2 for once she wants to be the one and only. Coco Chanel rules this book in every chapter with magnificent quotes and examples of how to live your life with passion being Rebecca’s secret ingredients in life.
Overall, it what’s a great read, start to finish! I’ll admit that I wished at times for a greater insight into Etienne’s relationship with his fiancé and why it was hard to pick Coco from the beginning. I also felt that Coco getting finally Etienne to be his number one was not given the spotlight it could have had, failing to capitalize on the emotions it could have provoked in the reader had it occurred in the last 3 chapters perhaps. But these are just observations from the result of the fussy and crazy reader I am, entirely subjective and this remains one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read this year so far.