Book Description....
"A story of love, hot chocolate, and one little girl's wish for her mother that will make your heart swell.
At twenty-seven, Penelope Dalton is quickly ticking off items on a bucket list. Only the list isn’t hers. After her eight year-old daughter Ella is given just six months to live thanks to an inoperable brain tumor, Penelope is determined to fill Ella’s remaining days with as many new experiences as she can.
With an endless supply of magical gifts and recipes from the hot chocolate café Penelope runs alongside her mother in a small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, she is able to give her daughter almost everything she wants. The one sticking point is Ella’s latest addition to her list: get a dad. And not just any dad. Ella has her sights set on Noah Gregory, her biological father and the only person Penelope knows to have proved her true love hot chocolate wrong.
Now Noah’s back in town for a few months—and as charming as ever—and the part of her that dreamed he was her fate in the first place wonders if she made the right decision to keep the truth of their daughter from him. The other, more practical part, is determined to keep him from breaking Ella’s heart too.
But as Ella’s health declines, Penelope must give in to her fate or face a future of regrets."
Title: Dreaming in Chocolate
Author: Susan Bishop Crispell
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Five
Review:
"Dreaming in Chocolate" by Susan Bishop Crispell
My Thoughts.....
It was quite interesting the way this author puts together this fictional story of "Dreaming in Chocolate' that has a mix of magical realism that deals with the healing powers of its chocolates. We find the story somewhat sad in that...well let me say Penelope Dalton is a single mother who works with her mother at the chocolate cafe. Truly Penelope mom's recipes are simply magical.
At this wonderful cafe you will finds a little bit of it all from 'chocolates, caramels, toffee and hot chocolates' which are supposed to have some kind of healing powers. However, with Penelope who has a daughter Ella and has been given six months to live [having a incurable disease] she doesn't believes about this magic any more. Now this story will pull you as we see the daughter Ella who is such a brave little one writes her own bucket list and the thing that stuck me was not only wanted a cat but wanted happiness for her mother so she wouldn't be lonely when she was gone. That part really had me in tears! As one can see by reading this story is about believing, magic and oh yes the sweet chocolates.
We find from the story that love of Penelope's life Noah left her nine years ago before she could tell him of her pregnancy. Now he is back and wow how things get complicated. I will stop her and just say the reader will get a good story of what will Penelope do now...tell Ella about Noah about each other? Now that Noah was back in town will Penelope begin to hope again?
The story is one good read that deals with quite a bit from being a 'heartwarming, delightful story of family, chocolates, magic, friends. love, hope and faith.' If nothing else by the time you finish with this read you will probably have a strong desire for chocolate in almost any form that you can get them! Would I recommend? YES!
It was quite interesting the way this author puts together this fictional story of "Dreaming in Chocolate' that has a mix of magical realism that deals with the healing powers of its chocolates. We find the story somewhat sad in that...well let me say Penelope Dalton is a single mother who works with her mother at the chocolate cafe. Truly Penelope mom's recipes are simply magical.
At this wonderful cafe you will finds a little bit of it all from 'chocolates, caramels, toffee and hot chocolates' which are supposed to have some kind of healing powers. However, with Penelope who has a daughter Ella and has been given six months to live [having a incurable disease] she doesn't believes about this magic any more. Now this story will pull you as we see the daughter Ella who is such a brave little one writes her own bucket list and the thing that stuck me was not only wanted a cat but wanted happiness for her mother so she wouldn't be lonely when she was gone. That part really had me in tears! As one can see by reading this story is about believing, magic and oh yes the sweet chocolates.
We find from the story that love of Penelope's life Noah left her nine years ago before she could tell him of her pregnancy. Now he is back and wow how things get complicated. I will stop her and just say the reader will get a good story of what will Penelope do now...tell Ella about Noah about each other? Now that Noah was back in town will Penelope begin to hope again?
The story is one good read that deals with quite a bit from being a 'heartwarming, delightful story of family, chocolates, magic, friends. love, hope and faith.' If nothing else by the time you finish with this read you will probably have a strong desire for chocolate in almost any form that you can get them! Would I recommend? YES!
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