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Today I’m here to talk about one book written by one of my favourite authors: Dorothy Koomson. I read my first book by her about ten years ago, and since then, I’ve been trying to read everything she wrote. It’s not easy because I have a huge list of books I need to read first, but when I have the chance I take it. Dorothy writes funny books and in each one, you can learn always something new.
The Chocolate Run talks about Amber Salpone, a woman who just begins the thirties journey, and who is completely attracted by her best friend Greg. Big mistake when the attraction turns into something else that can become a serious relationship, what turns everything more complicated because he’s a huge womanizer and she has commitment phobia. So while Amber starts to accept what she feels for Greg, she realises that she and Jen, her best friend from university, are moving further and further away.
Amber is the best. She is funny, loves chocolate and she uses sarcasm when she is nervous. She met Jen when she moved to Leeds to study Psychology and they have become friends since the first minute. Amber has a weird relationship with her family and a tough past, so most of her fears are justified with that.
I loved Greg from the beginning, but I must admit I didn’t want them to be together. He seems to be too immature for her and when Amber tells the adventures of their past, there’s a part of me that rolls her eyes and tells me “You shouldn’t love him, he’s bad news” but I never listen…
Amber is a chocolate sniffer. That’s right, I wrote it right. Chocolate sniffer. She compares every person with a type of chocolate and I love her explaining why x person is this kind of chocolate or why y person is that one. I myself love chocolate so those moments always put a smile on my face.
I love the ending, I love everything about this book. I totally recommend it! Read it and delight yourself, but careful you will want some chocolate with this story.
Favourite quotes
Love is recognising ourselves in someone else and delighting in that recognition.
I never knew this was what love felt like. It was almost as good as chocolate. Dare I say? Better than chocolate… No, that’s wrong. Nothing is better than chocolate. But this, this love business was 99 per cent as good. Hell, 99.99 per cent as good.
I never trusted any man not to find someone else; to stay with me if he had another option. To not find something in me that would have him heading for the hills. That was the other reason for not thinking long-term- when someone walked out, as they invariably did, it wasn’t too big a shock. a disappointment but nothing, I hadn’t been expecting.
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