Title: Unexpectedly poor...
Product review: I was very surprised to be completely disappointed by this book. It was a poor cross between "The Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells and "Chocolat" by Joanne Harris. Both of these wildly popular books had a unique way of capturing the spirit of the characters. Yet, "Julia's Chocolates" fails to deliver that sense of knowing the people you are reading about. This novel seems to take elements from both of these books, and mishmash them together, to create something lesser than either.The characters are more like caricatures, and none seem fully developed. Each one seems to be 'putting on a play', but not establishing themselves.I wanted to love this book, and kept plugging along, even when it became repetitive and predictable. I wish I could say it ended better than it began. The beginning few pages were the best in the novel.
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