While reading this, I couldnt help but feel like the characters chemistry was constantly a tick out of alignment with each other. Cade and Sylvain work well together, but the road to their togetherness was a troubled and twisting onenot just for them, but for me as a reader. I never seemed to quite get just why the things they say to each other make the other go off in a rage just like that. Some sort of conflict with the characters deep-rooted traits? Ostensibly yes, thats what makes anyone, real or fiction, pissed off. Ostensibly Sylvain is justified in being mad at Cades clumsily worded attempts to get him to contribute to her familys corporate chocolate brand. Ostensibly Cade is justified inum, what IS she justified in? I was never fully convinced that Sylvains interactions with her justified her outrageous actions.

But most of the time I felt like Cade and Sylvain were raging in the book just to rage, just to make their romance into the we cant stand each other but our sex is white-hot so that means we love each other type. Which I have nothing against, yknow, if the author is able to convince me that the rages and the smolders and the flare-ups are the genuine products of two characters head-on personalities.

THE CHOCOLATE THIEF fell just a little short in this.

But the sex scenes are truly white-hot. ;)

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