Shadowed Heart is a follow up to Laura Florand’s The Chocolate Heart which is in itself the fifth book in the L’Amour et Chocolate contemporary romance series set in France. You could read this as a standalone novella, but I don’t really see the point as the purpose of this book is to check in on characters and have visits with the protagonists of the other books in the series. Without everyone’s backgrounds, not a lot is going to make sense. Luc Leroi and Summer […]
My heart is in this chocolate, let it make you whole
Laura Florand continues her Amour et Chocolate – pairing men and women who fall in love but don’t know how to communicate the love and acceptance they feel for one another in a way the other understands. Neither The Chocolate Rose nor The Chocolate Touch engage in the magical realism of The Chocolate Kiss, but as in the previous book, our heroes try to communicate their feelings through food. That is what hooks me with these books – the character’s need to feed the […]
You fed my heart to a dog?
In my last romance review I wrote about how romance novels can return you to the feeling of falling in love. I stand by that. But sometimes they can also return you to the feeling of realizing things aren’t going to work out the way you wanted. It isn’t the fault of the book, it’s what I as a reader bring to this particular table. I’m not going to go into my personal history (which doesn’t involve Paris, witch craft, or a happy ending), […]
Sex and Dessert and Control Freak Perfectionists
The Chocolate Heart is book five in Laura Florand’s Amour et Chocolat series. The conceit of each novel is that an American woman is thrown into close proximity with a French chocolatier/pastry god. They fall in love quickly, get busy, and are engaged in short order. Florand provides consistently enjoyable escapism with romantic locations. The Chocolate Heart is not best of the series, that’s The Chocolate Touch, but The Chocolate Heart was certainly an absorbing and mostly entertaining read. Summer Corey has been told all her […]
Sex and Dessert
Look! I found Laura Florand’s romance mission statement. The Chocolate Temptation is book six in Florand’s Amour et Chocolat series. I reviewed the first four books in a previous effort. I will review the fifth, The Chocolate Heart, when I can get my hands on it at my local library, as it is priced out of my willing-to-pay range*. The conceit of each novel is that an American woman is thrown into close proximity with a French chocolatier/pastry god. They fall in love quickly, get […]
More love and hate and chocolate in the City of Lights
Sarah Lin hates Patrick Chevalier. She hates his golden good looks, his charming manner, the way he seems to be able to create magic with his bare hands and does absolutely everything flawlessly, without seeming to expend even the slightest bit of effort. She hates him because every time he brushes past her, or winks at her, or jokingly flirts with her, her heart beats faster and she has trouble breathing. He is her boss, and he is godlike, and he would never even look […]
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