It was so charming, I wasn’t sure I wanted to read any more of the books afterward. Will Magalie decide to come down? Can Philippe come up? There was a quasi-magic realism subplot involving wishes and hot chocolate that I found cloying and disruptive, but the love story still managed to sneak up on me and pack a wallop. The Chocolate Kiss (Phillippe and Magalie) – The PrinceĪ blatant take on Rapunzel complete with a golden-haired prince and a woman in a tower of her own experience and making. The poet of this group of men, he is a pure artist satisfied only with the very best. Cade doesn’t succeed with her marketing idea, but she does land Sylvain. The last thing the world needs is more bad chocolate hiding behind packaging and a shiny temper. Cade Hershey Corey runs her family’s multi-billion dollar chocolate corporation and wants Sylvain to create an upscale product for them to market to the masses. The Chocolate Thief (Sylvain and Cade) – The Poet
Is it because they’re French that they are allowed to be masculine and sensitive as well? I’m not sure, but I really liked it. They carry themselves with bravado, but Florand lets the reader see their vulnerability. The heroes were also a little more insecure than is usual in a romance. As professional chefs, they are artists, intelligent, driven, and self-disciplined. (4)Įach of the heroes are artists in their chosen medium which, fortunately for the reader, are food related. The Chocolate Temptation – Steamy, not quite as great, but still very good and enjoyable.The Chocolate Heart – The weakest of the group.The Chocolate Touch – My favourite of the group, it was really sweet and intense.The Chocolate Rose – Excellent passion, it needed just a hint more love story.The Chocolate Kiss – A great fairy tale that made me forgive the metaphor.The Chocolate Thief – Pretty good, it took me from 99 cents on Kindle to the complete series.The complete series with (order of preference):
Lifetime commitment about three weeks later.
Plot Summary (All): American woman meets French food god. As in life, almost everything comes back to chocolate, except the sex, that’s fairly frequently about oblique vanilla kink, and, truthfully, once or twice about chocolate, too. She has an excellent conceit and uses it to maximum advantage in this intersecting contemporary romance series. Laura Florand does not go wrong mixing dessert, France, and love stories.
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