For fans of Emily in Paris and YA stories about new experiences and falling in love. Love Requires Chocolate is supremely cute and will make you fall in love with Paris and falling in love. Keep reading this book review of Love Requires Chocolate for my full thoughts.
Summary
Whitney Curry is primed to have an epic semester abroad. She’s created the perfectitinerary and many, many to-do lists after collecting every detail possible about Paris, France. Thus, she anticipates a grand adventure filled with vintage boutiques, her idol Josephine Baker’s old stomping grounds, and endless plays sure to inspire the ones she writes and—ahem—directs!
But all is not as she imagined when she’s dropped off at her prestigious new Parisian lycée. A fish out of water, Whitney struggles to juggle schoolwork, homesickness, and mastering the French language. Luckily, she lives for the drama. Literally.
Cue French tutor Thierry Magnon, a grumpy yet très handsome soccer star, who’s determined to show Whitney the real Paris. Is this type-A theater nerd ready to see how lessons on the City of Lights can turn into lessons on love?
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
Love Requires Chocolate kicks off a new YA contemporary romance series and I am here for it. For fans of Emily in Paris, Love Requires Chocolate begins by asking us how we explore a new city. We can have all these preconceptions of what a city will be like, all the things we want to see, and who we want to be in this city. If this new experience will be a new us. But what we often find is that in the surprises is often where we learn the most, see the most, and fall in love the most.
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If you’ve ever spent a month abroad or living in a new place, you’ll have learned this. That the best things we see, to fall in love with a place, are the experiences we never planned. And Love Requires Chocolate is a testament to the experience of falling in love with a new city. For Whitney she finds herself not only expecting a grand love story, but also a grand love story with Paris. Whitney is passionate and determined. In Love Requires Chocolate we witness Whitney changing her mind. We see her opening up her expectations to reconcile reality with our dreams and our preconceived notion of what a person is like.
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