Set in Cannes, French Coast is another glitzy and glamour filled novel by Anita Hughes. Centered around the fashion industry, this charming story is a delightful escape from everyday life.

When the story opens, Serena Woods is on top of the world. She has a highly satisfying career as a features editor at Vogue and she has just been offered a dream assignment. Her politically ambitious boyfriend just proposed. Her parents are still crazy about one another and they are enjoying a quiet life now that her father has retired from politics. But Serena's perfect life is about to take a unexpected detour after a shocking secret about her parents is revealed.

Although the timing is less than ideal, Serena is not about to turn down the opportunity to interview Yvette Renault, the former editor of French Vogue. Things are off to a bit of a rocky start when she arrives at the luxurious hotel only to learn that there is a big problem with her reservation. A fortuitous meeting with another guest solves her predicament but she soon learns all is not as it seems with her mysterious roommate, Zoe.

But Serena's luck seems to be changing after she begins interviewing Yvette. She is soon enthralled with the details of Yvette's illicit but intriguing relationship with novelist Bertrand Roland. However, her elation is quickly tempered when her family is at the center of a very public scandal. Heartbroken by her fiancé's reaction to the exposé, Serena throws herself into her assignment while at the same time helping Zoe resolve a family issue.

French Coast is a fast-paced and engaging novel with a lovely cast of likable characters. The setting is quite lavish and Anita Hughes brings the opulent surroundings vibrantly to life. The storyline is interesting and full of unexpected twists and turns. It is an overall enjoyable and entertaining read that offers a fascinating look into the lives of the rich and famous. ( )

Got irritated pretty quickly. Too much description, and not of the interesting sort.

I enjoyed the story in this novel - young aspiring magazine writer gets the opportunity of a lifetime to interview a famous French model in France. Her new fiancee is proud of her and encourages her to go to France even though her rich rich parents feel that she should stay at home to plan her engagement party. But other than a good story line and an interesting main character, I was totally uninterested in all the talk of designer fashion and the book was full of it. Overall it was a light fun book to read but not really interesting to me. If you are interested in designer clothes, this is your book!

Haven't we all dreamed of escaping our humdrum life and finding ourselves hobnobbing in a resort, decked out in designer garb? Serena's living that life, assigned by her Vogue editor to jet to Cannes to interview the fabled French Vogue editor. But there's a problem -- her fiance Chase has just dumped her because of rumors surrounding her father, a former U.S. Senator. And the Cannes hotel lost her reservation, with no rooms to be found anywhere else. As she befriends an heiress-in-disguise and bunks in her suite, nurses her broken heart, and works on the story that will cement her career, Serena just might find new allies and a new future. While the storylines have been told elsewhere before, the author's excited energy will make this a frothy spring break read when released in April 2015. (226) ( )