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A review by samiism
The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling
3.0
I never got to read this book when I was a kid because I didn't have much money to buy it and it wasn't available at the school library. But I remember looking at the cover longingly. A young boy kissing his mother on the cheek...but the mother had turned to chocolate! Must've been a fascinating take on King Midas' touch.
John is a little shit of a boy, but when he began tasting nothing but chocolate, I felt jealous. Just a bit. I would love it if everything I ate tasted like the Hershey's milk chocolate. But then like John, I also realized the disadvantage to this. You see, I once LOVED dark chocolate. My stepdad got wind of this, so he started giving me bars of dark chocolate almost every day. Sweet man, he is. But after a few weeks of nonstop dark chocolate, I grew tired of it. Now, I can no longer stomach dark chocolate. This is what happened to John. Too much of something is bad enough, according to the Spice Girls. And I would just hate it if I grew tired of Hershey's milk chocolate.
The ending fell a bit flat for me. But it's a children's book, so whatever.
John is a little shit of a boy, but when he began tasting nothing but chocolate, I felt jealous. Just a bit. I would love it if everything I ate tasted like the Hershey's milk chocolate. But then like John, I also realized the disadvantage to this. You see, I once LOVED dark chocolate. My stepdad got wind of this, so he started giving me bars of dark chocolate almost every day. Sweet man, he is. But after a few weeks of nonstop dark chocolate, I grew tired of it. Now, I can no longer stomach dark chocolate. This is what happened to John. Too much of something is bad enough, according to the Spice Girls. And I would just hate it if I grew tired of Hershey's milk chocolate.
The ending fell a bit flat for me. But it's a children's book, so whatever.