The Chocolate Heart Amour et Chocolat #5 (KINDLE)

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Characters The Chocolate Heart Amour et Chocolat #5 Read & download ↠ The Chocolate Heart Amour et Chocolat #5 107 Review ☆ eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB Ó Laura Florand His spoiled princess even if she does now own his restaurant Who cares if she smiles with all the warmth of July She doesn't eat dessertThere is only one way to tempt her A perfect impossibly sweet seductio reviewed from an e arc provided by NetGalley A long time ago Better late than neverIf you ve read other books in the Amour et Chocolat series this is in some ways a familiar dance an American heiress in Paris and the French patissier who woos her with unbelievable desserts But there s a bit of a twist here Summer Corey s childhood love for both Paris and desserts have been twisted into hate Rather than Florand s usual fairy tale source this story draws on Greek mythology with Paris as Summer s HadesSummer and Luc Leroi basically fall in love at first sight each seeing warmth and comfort in the other But their public images and private pasts work against them and they constantly misunderstand each other Both were deprived of love as children but while Luc aims for constant perfection Summer wears her spoiled bad girl rep as a shield Come to think of it they are interesting representatives of two classic aspects of a dysfunctional family The Hero and The Scapegoat Every time Luc unwittingly hurts her she tries even harder to live down to his expectationsAs you might expect from the inspiration this is dark in tone not because anything overtly awful happens though Summer has had ugly experiences than the world would guess but because both characters have so much pain in their lives The story does a beautiful job of showing how two people who seem to have it all can still be so lost and justifiably unhappy They re perfect for each other because at heart they have the same need to give love to someone who needs them and would never let them goThere was a bit too much repetition of phrases but the prose is gorgeous I love the way Florand extends the metaphor beyond its original inspirationThat s what makes it so incredible What you do You re just a man A human mortal man And you do what you doThere was a long silence Merci soleil he said softly After all those people who call me a god I never realized you could give me a promotionI also liked the realism in the baby epilogue Neither character is completely fixed by true love and their happy ending reuires commitment and care There s also a seuel Shadowed Heart A Luc and Summer Novel which expands on thisYou don t have to have read any of the previous books to enjoy this one although several characters do recur Just open your heart to a prickly couple who need love and some astonishing desserts that need to be eaten

Characters The Chocolate Heart Amour et Chocolat #5

Characters The Chocolate Heart Amour et Chocolat #5 Read & download ↠ The Chocolate Heart Amour et Chocolat #5 107 Review ☆ eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB Ó Laura Florand No one hates Paris except Summer Corey The moody winters The artists and their ennui The inescapable shadow of the Tour Eiffel But things go from bad to worse when Summer stumbles into brooding gorgeous che Was this book over the top saccharine Too much Just enoughI can t uite decide I have lots of highlights I enjoyed Laura Florand s writing as usual She s researched and she is detailed In fact it sounds like part of her research for this was in the late Laurent Jeannin s kitchen I believe this level of detail really throws you into her books and at the very least they don t feel lazy or shortcut Her books are very sensuous and this was no exception I remember when I read the first I think in this series and how long it takes for the hero and heroine to actually meet and yet it was somehow still sexy as all hellSummer Corey hates desserts Luc Leroi is a perfectionist who creates them He puts pieces of his heart into those desserts serving himself up on the platter What resulted was a somewhat awkward painful and ultimately kind of delicious story Luc is a very controlled man but we come to understand that is not the case around Summer And Lord knows I love a hero who doesn t just take a uick fuck for his insta love or insta lust both are apparent here but they don t bother me Luc is a made from nothing man with a steady foster parent and absentee incompetent parents He just wants love and puts all his focus and passion into his craft And dear lord he tries Which is lovely He didn t let Summer get away because he makes little stumbles reiterating that he ll try until he s perfect for herThe issue of the story is with Summer she is a big hearted seemingly spoiled brat who has suffered neglect and often comes off as emotionally immature When Luc rejects her advances her offers to buy a yacht upon first meeting she s a bit bitter about it She continually rejects his heart on a plate desserts because she doesn t eat desserts She argues with her clearly neglectful even if well meaning parents about giving her the hotel in a 3 month trial run to connect the island she lives and loves teaching at with a satellite for better connectivity I don t know I get it and it s manipulative but she s so indignant at the prospect of having to try something for her parents in exchange for something for her livelihood it comes across asbrattyand entitled And holy hell she s frustratingly tone deaf in the neighborhood of Luc which was aggravating When he rejects her after she first kisses him again he deserves than a sliver of her time according to him she storms into the kitchen to publicly fire him ultimately resulting in her threatening to fire two others who tell her she s out of line This is not an ok scenario by any stretch for any sex Luc absolutely shrugs her off and despite my anger and complete misgivings I continued to read I mean she embarrassed herself badly He wasn t threatened and I guess that s the only reason I could keep on In the end the book was incredibly maybe OTT romantic and despite trying to hate it for that plot point I couldn t The tenderness that followed did me in There s a scene where she realizes he has been living on junk food that and she cooks for him It was heartbreaking and so sweet when he realized she was and what it meant to him Ultimately it s the little things like this that make this book While I can t uite get on board with Summer someone who didn t understand her love and privilege in many ways Luc s desire to have the love light up his life and his willingness to stubbornly pursue just that really made this book He s not perfect he s an arrogant prideful sort but I loved him 35 rounded up because I appreciated the hurdles and the difficulties getting to coupledom despite the insta lustlove Not to mention what seems to be meticulous 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