A review by lausol
The Chocolate Heart by Laura Florand
4.0
I actually started the book remembering that I did like the couple but mostly looking forward to being done with the re-read of this book so I could finally get to my fav couple of the series: Sarah and Patrick. After seeing the first nod to them on this book (when Patrick slides the cooked eggs to Sarah as her breakfast while pretending it's nothing that deep, lol), I thought it'd be mostly a "dying every time I see a Sarah/Patrick nod" and being just kind of ok with the main couple of the book. I did remember some of the plot and scenes, but it seems that I've forgotten how much I actually liked the couple. So I enjoyed the book way more that I thought I would when I started the re-read of it, and the couple slowly won me over.
I really like that Florand showed the actual getting it right after their novel concludes. She's nodded to it with some of her other couples when they do re-appear in other books, like for example Cade admitting that while she still wants an in into the heart of Sylvain's kingdom, she doesn't want to make a career out of working chocolate herself. But in the epilogue she really showed how both of them struggled through the years but also earned the contentment they feel in the family they created.
I really like that Florand showed the actual getting it right after their novel concludes. She's nodded to it with some of her other couples when they do re-appear in other books, like for example Cade admitting that while she still wants an in into the heart of Sylvain's kingdom, she doesn't want to make a career out of working chocolate herself. But in the epilogue she really showed how both of them struggled through the years but also earned the contentment they feel in the family they created.