![]() A set-up I initially thought ridiculous – chocolate executive Cade Hershey Corey tries with increasing desperation to persuade Parisian chocolatier Sylvain Marquis to let her use his name on mass-produced upscale chocolates, eventually going so far as to break into his laboratoire – is molded into the stuff of unexpected, delicious romance. Sure, writing sensually about love, sex, and chocolate would seem like shooting fish in a barrel, but Florand’s take makes every other food romance seem like… a supermarket chocolate bar. What captured me was partially the quirky characterizations, partially the vulnerability of the hero, partially the evocative writing. ![]() Laura Florand may not actually be Judith Ivory, but she is certainly a stylistic heir. ![]() Seriously, I thought of Ivory long before our hero and heroine got crazy on the stairs the quality of writing in this story is something I associate with the most interesting and original historical romances, and I don’t think I’ve ever encountered it in a contemporary romance before. Romance lovers, I’ve solved the mystery of “whatever happened to Judith Ivory” – she changed her name and doctored her author photo so she could write fanciful contemporary romances about chocolatiers. ![]()
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