Laura Florand does not go wrong mixing dessert, France, and love stories. She has an excellent conceit and uses it to maximum advantage in this intersecting contemporary romance series. 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.
Plot Summary (All): American woman meets French food god. Instant attraction. Conflict. Delicious food. Hot sex. Engagement about three weeks later.
- The Chocolate Thief – Pretty good, it took me from 99 cents on Kindle to the complete series.
- The Chocolate Kiss – A very good fairy tale that made me forgive the metaphor.
- The Chocolate Rose – Excellent passion, I’m not sure what happened to the love story.
- The Chocolate Touch – My favourite of the group, it was really sweet and intense.
- The Chocolate Heart – I’ll let you know when my library gets it in.
Each of the heroes are artists in their chosen medium which, fortunately for the reader, are food related. As professional chefs, they are artists, intelligent, driven, and self-disciplined. The heroes were also a little more insecure than is usual in a romance. They carry themselves with bravado, but Florand lets the reader see their vulnerability. 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.
Individual book reviews after the jump or on my tiny little blog.