What a fun read! Trying to think of adjectives to describe it - Delicious, Sensual, Romantic, Seductive, Funny, Beautiful.... I am sure it has a little bit of an advantage if you happen to be a chocolate lover, because you can just almost taste chocolate on nearly every page. It helps if you a...
When I started reading this story, I couldn’t see how the hero and heroine were going to come together in a HEA. But they did. And it was passionate and gorgeous. I would kill for a good piece of chocolate right now. Thanks, Ms. Florand. One note: I was really surprised that the hero and heroine ...
Not quite as fantabulous as book one, but still, something really compelling about it. First the quibbles - at times it was a little too precious, a little too drawn out with the yearning and emotional issues. I wanted to tell Magalie to get over herself sometimes because enough already. Maybe it...
Maybe Romance (as a genre) just isn't for me, but I liked this book more than some. It took quite a bit of the story for the whimsy to work on me, but eventually it got through. And I now want to eat so many sweets I can hardly stand it. Let me say first, that I can think of many people I would r...
I reallllly loved this one. Everything about their mutual doubt that the other one could REALLY love them worked so well for me. Because I think that's so real, but it's nothing I often see done well in romances. Also, as fast as their relationship was, I wasn't really conscious of that speed exc...
Maybe it's because I have read Laura Florand before but this was not a good read for me. Based on her other books, this one did not meet my expectations. As a matter of fact, I was starting to wonder if she was even the writer for this book. There are seven books in her Amour et Chocolat series a...
The ending saved this book for me. The epilogue was great. But for the first 60% of the book I was not feeling it at all. I didn't understand the chemistry between the characters. Why did they secretly like each other and openly hate each other with such a passion? It really seemed like an overre...
Laura Florand has done it again!! Not only does she always manage to write characters that I care about and love, but she always makes me want to go back to Paris immediately!! I loved this story of Patrick, Luc's second in the kitchen, and Sarah, his young intern. Like her other books, there was...
Not your typical romance - a story about a married couple ripped apart by the wife’s postpartum depression after three miscarriages. One of those books I felt that I should like more, because it’s an important topic not addressed in many romances. After complaining about several books where you...
Stumbled across this book by an author I didn't know, and really enjoyed it. The settings (France & south Pacific island[s]), the restaurant world, the main characters, and the gradual reveal of their marriage as the story unfolds and the H/h each grapple with the thought that it might be over, a...
He felt like one of those men on the moon—if he wasn’t careful, he’d bounce himself into space. Au-dessus must be busy—what was it, eight p.m.?—because scents and sounds filled the kitchen, heady and clashing and warm. Color splashed across plates in ardent drama. There was motion everywhere and ...
The darkness tightened her lungs as she set her foot on the first stair. Every breath grew more panicked, that she would never see him again, that closing that door on him had shut out his existence. She couldn’t do this, walking away from him, climbing and climbing up a dark stairwell by herself...
She couldn’t believe she would do it anywhere, follow his orders like this, let alone do it out in the open air. This was nothing like that night in New York. It was impossibly, dirtily real. And yet there was something there that was the same—this passionate hunger and…trust. She didn’t trust hi...
It felt as if he could take care of them. It felt as if they were all his. It felt strong, and it felt awkward, too, this new, fresh caution about all the things that he might do or be wrong. Was the scent of him, or the motion, stirring up nausea? Odd and disturbing, how ...
Tristan asked cheerfully. “That was beautiful, wasn’t it?” Matt grunted from under the conveyor belt, trying to ignore his cousin. Damn belt. What a time to break down, the first day of the harvest. Could anything else go wrong with his awesome thirty-first year? Yes, probably. It could start to ...
Cade said as she stepped into Summer’s suite. “But I’m delighted to see you, too, cousin.” Summer crossed to her television and turned on the scrolling photos of the island immediately and then stood there in front of them a moment, taking a deep breath. She felt violently sick. She felt so grate...