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HTML:The Heart of Paris Welcome to La Maison des Sorcieres. Where the window display is an enchanted forest of sweets, a collection of conical hats delights the eye and the habitués nibble chocolate witches from fanciful mismatched china. While in their tiny blue kitchen, Magalie Chaudron and her two aunts stir wishes into bubbling pots of heavenly chocolat chaud. But no amount of wishing will rid them of interloper Philippe Lyonais, who has the gall to open one of his world famous pastry shops right down the street. Philippe's creations seem to hold a magic of their own, drawing crowds of beautiful women to their little isle amidst the Seine, and tempting even Magalie to venture out of her ivory tower and take a chance, a taste. . .a kiss. Parisian princesses, chocolate witches, pâtissier princes and sweet wishes--an enchanting tale of amour et chocolat. Praise for Laura Florand and her novels "Charming and laugh-out-loud funny." --New York Times bestselling author Deborah Smith "Readers will be happy to live vicariously in Laura's French fairytale." --Booklist "Frothy, French confection of a novel." --Publishers Weekly "Both sensual and sweet. . .a story that melts in your mouth!" --USA Today bestselling author Christie Ridgway "Vive la Laura Florand!" --Cassandra King. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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For one, holy exposition. Sometimes it would take an entire page (and then some) for one character to reply to something another character had said. It just made me think, what is the other character doing while all of this interior monologue is happening? Standing there gaping? I love a snappy dialogue, and it just didn't materialize here.
Second, sometimes I just could not deal with the word choices. There is a lot of whimsy and wit in the writing, and then I run across a whole bunch of "butt" and "my sex" and even a "tummy." And then there was the phrase (well, I'm paraphrasing), "He squeezed my sex as he might squeeze a lime." Is that in there for humor? Because I laughed.
Third, and perhaps the main problem I had, there seem to be a lot of subtle references to this man "forcing" himself in what should be safe spaces for this woman. I use the quotation marks because I don't think it is meant to be taken as malicious. But malicious intent or not, I find some of the hero's behavior troubling. The heroine often finds him close enough to her that they inadvertently touch, and he doesn't back away to give her space. He does this purposefully to "annoy" her. In one scene he, essentially, breaks into her apartment when she isn't there, and doesn't leave when asked. In fact, he realizes and exploits the fact that she won't ask him to leave a second time (out of pride, I guess?). I have a problem with that. I know not everyone does, but I do. And because of that, I can never really allow him to be my prince charming. And isn't that what we want a romance novel to do? ( )