The Chocolate Heart by Laura Florand (Amour et Chocolat #5) Releases: November 26, 2013 Contemporary Romance Kensington Reviewed by Mandi In general, I adore this series. Laura Florand has a great voice and she gives us these amazing chef/pastry/chocolatier heroes with Paris as the backdrop and you swoon and crave chocolate the entire book. I was not a huge fan of the first book, but the subsequent books have all been great. The Chocolate Heart though falls somewhere in the Continue Reading
The Chocolate Temptation by Laura Florand Cover Reveal!
Laura Florand has quick become one of my favorite and most anticipated authors. She writes such sexy books. Today we are unveiling the cover of her next release, The Chocolate Temptation: She hated him. Patrick Chevalier. The charming, laid-back, golden second-in-command of the Paris pastry kitchen where Sarah worked as intern, who made everything she failed at seem so easy, and who could have every woman he winked at falling for him without even trying. She hated him, but she’d risked too Continue Reading
Review: Snow-kissed by Laura Florand
Snow-Kissed by Laura Florand Released: September 1, 2013 Contemporary Novella Self Published Reviewed by Mandi I really enjoy marriage in trouble themed romance books. It is a different dynamic than boy meets girl and fall in love. These books usually have older characters and always seem more…mature. And the pain – oh the pain. I love to torture myself with a very painful book and hope to be rewarded with warmth at the end. Laura Florand does a nice job with this. Kai and Kurt Continue Reading
Review: The Chocolate Touch by Laura Florand
The Chocolate Touch by Laura Florand (Amour et Chocolat #4) Released – July 30, 2013 Contemporary Romance Kensignton Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: “I can’t get enough of you. I’m like some vampire, I’ll suck you dry.” “No.” He stroked her body urgently. “You said I was the sun, and you can’t suck the sun dry. I promise I won’t run out. I promise. You make me feel – “ like I can give out heat and love forever. And never, ever falter. Dominique Richard is one of Paris’s best Continue Reading
Celebrating Bastille Day with a Laura Florand Giveaway!
I absolutely adore Laura Florand’s Amour et Chocolat series. Centered around Parisian chocolatiers, as you read you will feel like you are in Paris and you will crave chocolate like nothing else. They are charming and so sexy. (I gave the Chocolate Kiss an “A” – read my review here) Since today is Bastille Day in France and because Laura’s books take place in Paris, she is celebrating with a big giveaway. Her entire Chocolat series and a very (and I mean very, very) nice set of caramels (she Continue Reading
The Chocolate Rose by Laura Florand
The Chocolate Rose by Laura Florand (Roses #1) Contemporary Romance April 2013 Self Published Reviewed by Mandi Last year I read The Chocolate Thief by Laura Florand and it was okay, not great. Then she asked me to review The Chocolate Kiss and I thought I’d give her books another shot. Thank goodness because The Chocolate Kiss is an absolutely adorable book that I highly recommend everyone read. So I was very curious to see how a third book would hold up. And I’m very Continue Reading
Review: The Chocolate Kiss by Laura Florand
The Chocolate Kiss by Laura Florand (Chocolate #2) December 24, 2012 Contemporary Romance Kensington Reviewed by Mandi Adorable, charming, whimsical. These are the words that first came to mind when I finished this book. I read it in one sitting and was completely immersed in the world. I felt like I was in Paris, in a tiny chocolate shop. That I could almost smell the hot chocolate and see the adorable chocolate window displays the author so meticulously and wonderfully details Continue Reading
Review: The Chocolate Thief by Laura Florand
The Chocolate Thief by Laura Florand Contemporary Romance July 31, 2012 Kensington Reviewed by Mandi Cade Corey and her family own Corey Chocolate, the biggest chocolate distributor in the United States. Their chocolate bars sell at Walmart for $.33 and those coins have brought a billion dollars to her family. Always looking for something new, Cade decides she wants Parisian chocolatier, Sylvain Marquis’s name on a new line of their chocolate. Cade thinks it will be the perfect fit Continue Reading
Review: Kiss the Bride Anthology
Kiss the Bride Anthology May 1, 2012 Contemporary Romance Reviewed by Mandi Early Bird Special by Deirdre Martin Dana is the director of retail expansion for a line of boutique stores, which means she is constantly traveling. The newest store opening is in Florida where her grandparents happen to live. Having not seen them for some time, she stays with them as she gets the new store ready to open. Her grandmother and her friends of course want to see Dana settle down, and their hunky Continue Reading