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  • Book series I love: Amour et Chocolat by Laura Florand

    There are a couple of book blogs that I follow. Every now and then, they share special offers – when a book is off at Amazon, for example. I buy wayyyy too many of these recommendations. The majority of them just end up hanging around on my Kindle app, in the event that I will read them. (I have a very full Kindle app.)

    But I do read them, eventually.

    One of those offers ended up with me buying the first book in Laura Florand’s Amour et Chocolat, The Chocolate Thief

    Every now and then I read a series that I think – more people should know about this. Amour et chocolat (don’t worry, the books are originally in English) is one of those series. I bought the first book in October last year, and by the time Christmas came around, I had read all the books in the series twice. Granted, I read fast, but that is still a very quick re-reading of a series, even for me.
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  • Review: The Chocolate Kiss

    The Chocolate Kiss
    The Chocolate Kiss by Laura Florand

    My rating: 4 of 5 stars

    I just reread this book, and completely had a chocolate craving. Especially since the hot chocolate played such an essential role in the book – almost like a character of its own.

    And then it snowed today. So I felt like I had the perfect excuse.

    I made the chocolate chaud recipe in the back of the book. It was a perfect cup on a cold day.

    hot chocolate

    The next time I make it, I might skip the cinnamon and nutmeg infusion though. I think the chocolate could stand on its own well enough.

  • Review: The Chocolate Heart

    The Chocolate Heart
    The Chocolate Heart by Laura Florand

    My rating: 4 of 5 stars

    Laura Florand is a recent discovery of mine. It’s only last month that I picked up the first book in this series, and then ended up devouring all her backlist like a madwoman. Paris, chocolate and cultural misunderstandings… – what’s not to love?

    The Chocolate Heart is one of those books that, if it was less well written, would be annoying as hell. It is about the heiress Summer Corey and the pastry chef Luc Leroi. Summer’s dad buys her the hotel where Luc works at the 3 star restaurant. From the minute they meet, there is misunderstandings.

    These go on for almost the whole book – and could maybe partly have been solved in half the time if the two of them were less neurotic, and less inclined to misunderstand everything the other one is saying.

    It is only Florand’s excellent writing which carries the story so well to the end. As it is, it is delicious and sweet and wistful…

    It’s actually a book that I am sad to see end. The first book in this series was good, but I feel like the stories and the writing is improving book by book, and it will be a pleasure to read the next one, and re-read them again and again.

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