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Oh my. The Chocolate Heart was so intense! I've mentioned that I read the series out of order, beginning with the first book, then skipping to The Chocolate Temptation (book six), then I read Sun-Kissed (book seven) then went back and read two through five. With all my hopping around, I've noticed that the series definitely gets more intense as you go from books two through five. The Chocolate Temptation was a bit less intense for me, but I think that was due to Patrick Chevalier's deceptively easy-going manner. I should also note that much of this story runs concurrent to The Chocolate Temptation, and it was very cool to see some of the same events happening through Luc Leroi's darker perception.

Anyway, back to The Chocolate Heart! I really liked it. Like The Chocolate Touch, it was a harder read. The writing is still beyond gorgeous and I just love revisiting Laura Florand's Paris and her intense, emotionally draining men. What made it difficult was what also made it very good: Summer and Luc were profoundly damaged by their childhoods, slow to believe that they each held value to the other, and very, very slow to open up. Yes, it was frustrating to have those blocks between Luc and Summer, but I also felt it was true to their character and good of Florand to not make it "easy" for the sake of the reader.

I honestly don't know what I can say at this point without becoming even more redundant. The entire series is a gorgeous experience. It's full of passion and angst and sexy and romance. Funny moments, sad moments, heartbreaking moments and moments so beautiful, so beautifully expressed that I'm brought to tears. It's been a wonderful experience. If you're looking for intense and beautiful, Amour et Chocolate is definitely the series to read.

Favorite Quotes

Her eyes flickered to his with a flash of pure hunger.
Yes! Triumph licked him, thorough hot licks of her mouth on his skin. Oh, yes, I can make you hunger for me.
And then her smile turned her whole beautiful, luminous, delicate face into something so impossibly wonderful that his hands- his hands- almost shook with the need to grab it to him, to crush it to him, and never let it get away.

"You're so beautiful." Water streamed off him, that lean body of his all wild, taut muscle, his face burned clean of anything but passion.
He kept saying that as if she really was. She slipped her hands up those slick shoulders. "Let go,"she whispered. "Lose control."
His body shook in hard, long spasms that drove him deeper into her. "Hold me while I do," he whispered. "Hold me together. Don't let me go."
So she wrapped her arms around him as hard as she could and held on.
And he let all the wildness out.

"I could kiss you until there's nothing left of you," he whispered.
Where the words should have woken that visceral fear of being reduced to nothing in someone else's life, instead an image grew of herself: golden, strong, glowing in his arms like a precious star. "No, you can't."
His thumb traced over her lips. "Don't underestimate how long I can kiss you."
A soft smile, almost as contained as one of his, full of an astonishing amount of confidence. "Don't underestimate how long I can last."

Luc gave that tiny,contained grin of his and admitted: "I wouldn't mind having a fountain built to me. And"--his voice got all funny again--"I have a really powerful vision of you with four black-haired kids in lavender fields." He took a deep breath and watched her.
She got all funny. As if her whole being had disappeared into a burst of butterflies, fluttering upward, outward. It felt dizzying and tickling and terrifying and lovely.


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The Chocolate Heart Amour et Chocolat Laura Florand 9780758286345 Books Reviews

The Chocolate Heart by Laura Florand, Is a must read for an anytime boost of mouth watering, melt in your mouth, must have chocolate, romance, love, sex and a good dose of fabulous wanting of more.

The story is a passion for chocolate, love & life itself. It lifts your spirits & has you feasting on the food of the GOD's. It weaves you into the characters lives & makes you hungry for more. Your imagination will soar & your passion will increase your wanting more of a well told tale. It takes you on a travel journey through romantic France, Paris & the country itself.
It gets your senses aroused with hunger until the chocolate web with a beautiful heart encased in it is finished & the characters are satisfied & so are you. Chocolate everywhere!!!! What could possibly be better?

I have read Laura Florand's CHOCOLATE series.....Terrific!!!! I will be on the lookout for her books in the future. Thank you for sharing these melting chocolate experiences. Enjoy!!!!
In this 4th installment, we meet Summer Corey, Corey heiress and Cade/Jaime's cousin, and Luc Leroi, 3 star pastry chef. You can read this book without having read any of the others, and Cade/Sylvain and Jaime/Dom make very brief appearances. As a rich girl with abandonment issues, Summer has lived on a South Pacific island for the last 3 years teaching the local children. She is now in Paris for 3 months "running" the top hotel, gifted to her from father, in exchange for his investment in better satellite communication for her island. Luc is the pastry chef at the hotel, who rose from the ranks after growing up busking in the Metro, being taken away from his father, and growing up in a foster home. Summer and Luc are drawn to each other, but unable to give in for fear of being left brokenhearted at the end of 3 months.

You are throwing into the action of this story, with little background to go on, which is Florand's style, but she slowly opens Summer and Luc for you to see how scared they are. As much as Summer seems an aloft heiress to the public, she is privately struggling to find her place where she is valued and can provide value. Luc is the cool, tall, focused chef who is trying to find it in him to win over Summer. I finished this in one day and cannot wait for the next book!
This is finely written angsty romance where two fairly tortured souls fall in love. The baggage each of the them carries is weighty and Florand does a lovely job allowing the heroine and the hero to remain themselves as they fall in love.

The second half of the book is very fulfilling and there is a simply divine and heartfelt epilogue. Again, I am always impressed by the lilting psychology of this series and the romance tucked into the very realism of what it means to be human and what love really is. Oh and Paris, chocolate, and sexy chefs.

The first part of the book hurts a bit in both good and bad ways. Luc and Summer have a terrible time really seeing each. It is hard to believe in the love at first sight that is part and parcel of this series because of the blindness that goes on for far too many chapters. They are both cruel to each other and themselves.

There are well founded reasons for how each of them behaves but I would have liked more true seeing than we get or at least an obsession that didn't seem just physical at first.

All the details of who they each are captivate but there are several threads left dangling for me that I would have liked traced out (his father, her mother in detail, the nanny, the seducer).

However, the book swings up and up and up until its wonderful closing making it a very good read.

May I say one more time Yea! Epilogue!
Oh my. The Chocolate Heart was so intense! I've mentioned that I read the series out of order, beginning with the first book, then skipping to The Chocolate Temptation (book six), then I read Sun-Kissed (book seven) then went back and read two through five. With all my hopping around, I've noticed that the series definitely gets more intense as you go from books two through five. The Chocolate Temptation was a bit less intense for me, but I think that was due to Patrick Chevalier's deceptively easy-going manner. I should also note that much of this story runs concurrent to The Chocolate Temptation, and it was very cool to see some of the same events happening through Luc Leroi's darker perception.

Anyway, back to The Chocolate Heart! I really liked it. Like The Chocolate Touch, it was a harder read. The writing is still beyond gorgeous and I just love revisiting Laura Florand's Paris and her intense, emotionally draining men. What made it difficult was what also made it very good Summer and Luc were profoundly damaged by their childhoods, slow to believe that they each held value to the other, and very, very slow to open up. Yes, it was frustrating to have those blocks between Luc and Summer, but I also felt it was true to their character and good of Florand to not make it "easy" for the sake of the reader.

I honestly don't know what I can say at this point without becoming even more redundant. The entire series is a gorgeous experience. It's full of passion and angst and sexy and romance. Funny moments, sad moments, heartbreaking moments and moments so beautiful, so beautifully expressed that I'm brought to tears. It's been a wonderful experience. If you're looking for intense and beautiful, Amour et Chocolate is definitely the series to read.

Favorite Quotes

Her eyes flickered to his with a flash of pure hunger.
Yes! Triumph licked him, thorough hot licks of her mouth on his skin. Oh, yes, I can make you hunger for me.
And then her smile turned her whole beautiful, luminous, delicate face into something so impossibly wonderful that his hands- his hands- almost shook with the need to grab it to him, to crush it to him, and never let it get away.

"You're so beautiful." Water streamed off him, that lean body of his all wild, taut muscle, his face burned clean of anything but passion.
He kept saying that as if she really was. She slipped her hands up those slick shoulders. "Let go,"she whispered. "Lose control."
His body shook in hard, long spasms that drove him deeper into her. "Hold me while I do," he whispered. "Hold me together. Don't let me go."
So she wrapped her arms around him as hard as she could and held on.
And he let all the wildness out.

"I could kiss you until there's nothing left of you," he whispered.
Where the words should have woken that visceral fear of being reduced to nothing in someone else's life, instead an image grew of herself golden, strong, glowing in his arms like a precious star. "No, you can't."
His thumb traced over her lips. "Don't underestimate how long I can kiss you."
A soft smile, almost as contained as one of his, full of an astonishing amount of confidence. "Don't underestimate how long I can last."

Luc gave that tiny,contained grin of his and admitted "I wouldn't mind having a fountain built to me. And"--his voice got all funny again--"I have a really powerful vision of you with four black-haired kids in lavender fields." He took a deep breath and watched her.
She got all funny. As if her whole being had disappeared into a burst of butterflies, fluttering upward, outward. It felt dizzying and tickling and terrifying and lovely.