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The Shoe Queen | 
| Manufacturer: Pocket Books
Category: EBooks
List Price: $11.99
Buy New: $9.59
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 31231
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
ASIN: B000RG1O84
Publication Date: June 19, 2007
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Product Description
When English society beauty Genevieve Shelby King spots the most exquisite lace slippers on the feet of her archrival, she covets a pair of her own. But the exclusive designer, Paolo Zachari, denies her request -- and no amount of money from her wealthy American husband will change his mind. Soon Genevieve's desire for a pair of unobtainable shoes develops into an obsession with their elusive creator -- threatening her marriage. Zachari awakens her to a passion beyond anything she has ever known, forcing her to confront the emptiness of her elaborately designed life and a secret buried deep in her past.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 LOVED IT! April 21, 2008
I'm a fashion student so I'm sucker for anything Paris related. I'm also fasinated by the 20's so this book peeked my interest from the beginning! And, okay the cover is pretty :) I wasn't expecting much but it drew me in instantly and I couldn't put it down until I finished! It turned out to be more than book about a women who loves shoes. It's also about love, lies, betrayal, and all that other good stuff! The descriptions of Paris (and most importantly the shoes!) are amazing. However parts of the book have a lot of hard to pronounce French words that make it hard for non-french speakers to imagine when you don't even know what they mean. Other than that, for the rest of the book you can easily imagine yourself in Paris along side Genevive, going to all the lavish parties, and wearing your own pair of Paolo Zacharis! ... Or at least you wish you were :) Great book!
 The Shoe Queen February 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I read this book, it kept making me irritated. By the time I was 3/4 done with the book, I thought I was going to throw it in my fireplace! It was awful. Definitely not my style... But the delivery of the product was fast and the book was in great shape!
A New Edna? September 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I admit, I picked up this books because I could not resist the title. In reading this I could not help but relate the main female lead to Emma Bovary and Edna Pontellier. The yearning to somehow be more, to experience love, passion and to be more than just a wife or daughter is there. Also present is the cruelty that comes from that self involvement and the initial step to have the protection of acceptance from society in the form of a marriage.
The descriptions of 1920s Paris are wonderful. The inclusion of the many literary characters of that time just added to the lore and elicited a type of sympathy for Genevieve while at the same time a sort of hatred for her lack of strength in the beginning. The author deftly shows the vunerable side of the heroine with the childhood Mary-Janes and the pointed critism about her love poems lacking the ring of authenticity because she had never known love. Small details that reveal much.
 I hate Genevieve! August 29, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The idea for this book was great (although a little too Great Gatsby-esque at times), and I loved the detailed descriptions of the many beautiful pairs of shoes, being a shoe queen myself. And although this is not exactly "high art," the writing was decent and the story enjoyable.
However, by the end of the book, I developed a raging hatred for Genevieve. She is so silly and selfish, and she cares nothing for the feelings of others. She blames all of her misfortunes on everyone else, and I found it very dissatisfying that she never had to take responsibility for or suffer any consequences of her actions.
In the end, though she'd treated her husband abominably, she just ran off & lived happily ever after. Not the way it happens in real life, people.
Nice suprise... August 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was in between books and looking for something light and entertaining to read while on a recent trip. I found this book to be delightful! The plot delivered some surprises that kept me turning the pages to find out what the characters did next. ENJOY!
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