Title: Sticky cloying confection
Product review: I found this novel quite absurd. We're supposed to believe that the opening of a chocolat shop in a FRENCH town causes a furore and the enmity of the local priest. Ridiculous. France is bursting with chocolat shops, they're everywhere you go, and I don't believe any priest would give a damn. If the woman had opened a brothel or an opium den or soemthing then I could undeerstand the priest getting upset, but a chocolat shop? It's too silly for words. The priest is an absurd caricatur baddie, he might as well be wearing a hat with 'villain' on it.The book is full of heavy-handed church bashing, we are constantly having it rammed home how free-spirited and liberated the heroine is in contrast to the nasty, oppresive priest. This is an extremely silly book.
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