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Lemon Truffles - Love Instantly
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B007KG561U
Cheng Liu is a hot shot young Chinese professional. He’s tall, polished, assertive, sexy, ambitious, good looking and used to speaking up and getting what he wants. So when he sees beautiful and equally poised, but shy and reserved African-American professional Angela Hawkins, he knows that opposites definitely attract in this case. He simply must go introduce himself to her and maybe even seduce her in the process…
In CeCe Monét's first installment of the contemporary romance series The Chocolate Chronicles… Lemon Truffles – Love Instantly, two young adult workaholic professionals share one steamy, pleasurable night together in Hong Kong. Yet can their short, passionate one night affair turn into a lifetime of love, happiness and companionship? Can their AMBW (Asian Man Black Woman), lemon and chocolate swirl decadence, creamy, sultry, rich, sweet, tangy and indulgent romance survive a seemingly betrayed promise?
Cheng Liu is a hot shot young Chinese professional. He’s tall, polished, assertive, sexy, ambitious, good looking and used to speaking up and getting what he wants. So when he sees beautiful and equally poised, but shy and reserved African-American professional Angela Hawkins, he knows that opposites definitely attract in this case. He simply must go introduce himself to her and maybe even seduce her in the process…
In CeCe Monét's first installment of the contemporary romance series The Chocolate Chronicles… Lemon Truffles – Love Instantly, two young adult workaholic professionals share one steamy, pleasurable night together in Hong Kong. Yet can their short, passionate one night affair turn into a lifetime of love, happiness and companionship? Can their AMBW (Asian Man Black Woman), lemon and chocolate swirl decadence, creamy, sultry, rich, sweet, tangy and indulgent romance survive a seemingly betrayed promise?
70 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 4, 2012
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About the author
CeCe Monet
32 books15 followersCeCe Monét is a best-selling author, copy editor and owns indie publishing company C-Verse Productions, formerly Diva C Publishing. Since writing her first short story for a school assignment at age 10, she’s always known that she wanted to grow up and be a writer too! Her early writing influences include: Judy Blume, Charles Dickens, Paula Danzinger, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Harlequin and Silhouette romance novels and various storytelling genres from Disney.
CeCe’s goal with her work is to entertain, educate and enrich her reader’s lives by engaging them in engrossing stories. Her end objective is to get people thinking about what’s really happening out in the world through private relationships so her readers can decide for themselves if they’re happy and comfortable with the status quo, or if they are going to become social change agents…
CeCe is a veteran writer having covered a myriad of topics and genres from blogs, to articles on global food politics, to self-help guides, to business plans to poetry, to interracial romance novels.
She is a Los Angeles, California native and also the mom of one amazing son, an avid reader, foodie, paranormal enthusiast, knitter, overall art lover, introvert and a self-professed nerd with a sharp wit and awesome sense of humor. She enjoys wine, the beauty of sunsets at the beach, romance, and is obsessed with all things diversity, hence the reason her romance novels primarily deal with interracial relationships.
Major Themes, Subjects and Plots of the Author’s Fiction Work:
Most of CeCe Monét’s fiction deals with love, loss, changes in human nature given different circumstances and thus situational ethics, greed, grief, and lust, essentially coping with everyday real life through the lens of characters involved in various types of romantic relationships.
She utilizes her characters and story lines to examine how people deal with their emotional baggage, and how they handle the most random situations in their lives, especially since the author herself constantly experiences some very strange real life occurrences. Through her characters, she is interested in exploring raw, real human emotions and what people learn along the way as they move along their life journeys.
Above all, what CeCe most wants to convey to her readers is that men and women are all individuals and that we should embrace our diversity, but also celebrate that we’re all interconnected. Basically, she wants people to realize that love truly does conquer all and that this life is all about synergy, as both sexes really do need each other.
CeCe’s goal with her work is to entertain, educate and enrich her reader’s lives by engaging them in engrossing stories. Her end objective is to get people thinking about what’s really happening out in the world through private relationships so her readers can decide for themselves if they’re happy and comfortable with the status quo, or if they are going to become social change agents…
CeCe is a veteran writer having covered a myriad of topics and genres from blogs, to articles on global food politics, to self-help guides, to business plans to poetry, to interracial romance novels.
She is a Los Angeles, California native and also the mom of one amazing son, an avid reader, foodie, paranormal enthusiast, knitter, overall art lover, introvert and a self-professed nerd with a sharp wit and awesome sense of humor. She enjoys wine, the beauty of sunsets at the beach, romance, and is obsessed with all things diversity, hence the reason her romance novels primarily deal with interracial relationships.
Major Themes, Subjects and Plots of the Author’s Fiction Work:
Most of CeCe Monét’s fiction deals with love, loss, changes in human nature given different circumstances and thus situational ethics, greed, grief, and lust, essentially coping with everyday real life through the lens of characters involved in various types of romantic relationships.
She utilizes her characters and story lines to examine how people deal with their emotional baggage, and how they handle the most random situations in their lives, especially since the author herself constantly experiences some very strange real life occurrences. Through her characters, she is interested in exploring raw, real human emotions and what people learn along the way as they move along their life journeys.
Above all, what CeCe most wants to convey to her readers is that men and women are all individuals and that we should embrace our diversity, but also celebrate that we’re all interconnected. Basically, she wants people to realize that love truly does conquer all and that this life is all about synergy, as both sexes really do need each other.
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November 11, 2012
I really enjoyed this very sweet and sexy short read I will certainly read more from this author
November 9, 2012
This book had the ability to be a really good but more of the story should have been told.
October 20, 2013
I liked this book it was pretty interesting. The best part was the last few chapters you get that fairy tale ending some what and I liked that.
January 19, 2019
Too...Uhhh...
Words can’t describe how I felt while reading nor after reading this book. And, then there was a “supposedly” part 2! Which I’m just going to type...smh! Wait...I found some words to describe my thoughts...total waste of time!
Words can’t describe how I felt while reading nor after reading this book. And, then there was a “supposedly” part 2! Which I’m just going to type...smh! Wait...I found some words to describe my thoughts...total waste of time!
March 6, 2017
great read
good story with a great mix of drama tension and sensuality. loved the ending as well i suspected brian all along.
good story with a great mix of drama tension and sensuality. loved the ending as well i suspected brian all along.
May 15, 2013
Lemon Truffles-Love Instantly was a splendid snack. That’s the simplest way that I can put it. I could become mellifluous and depict in great detail the way the author uses the characters to drive the well-thought out journey deftly, succinctly and neatly. I could say that I was stunned by how easily I was dragged into the story. I could say how I loved the rarely used pairing of Asian and Afro-American races for the hero and heroine. I could even say that I would be willing to take a look at an Asian man if I could recreate Cheng for myself. But instead, splendid will have to do for now.
Normally, I give any tale the first ten or so pages to lure me in. I can understand that time is needed to fully develop setting so the words will turn into mental playback with video. But in this case I was immediately captured with a handful of flicks across my phone. Enough so that I finished in the same position that I started in despite discomforts (i.e. sitting on my front porch at midnight in a wrought iron chair as I fed every hungry mosquito on the East Coast).
Usually, I jot a few notes as I’m reading. Just small stuff (like the way I felt as I encounter the highs and lows or any editing mistakes I notice). But when I picked my phone up and started, there was no way I could stop. Not for a million dollars or anything else the universe could have offered me at the time. So here I am, sans notes and without any idea how I finished this story in just over a half hour.
That is one of a couple of cons to this read - yes, I’ll say it - more please! My final issue would have to be the quick changes in perspective. It seemed as if I was with Cheng one moment and a scant half page later I dove into Angela’s head.
But as a disclaimer to my prior complaints, I devoured this book on my phone as if it was electronic Thanksgiving and Lemon Truffles was the last turkey in town.
This is a must read for romance lovers in general and not just those who appreciate IR. And if it were a smidgeon longer, I would certainly buy a print copy despite my personal preference for e-books.
-Reviewed by: Jennifer
Normally, I give any tale the first ten or so pages to lure me in. I can understand that time is needed to fully develop setting so the words will turn into mental playback with video. But in this case I was immediately captured with a handful of flicks across my phone. Enough so that I finished in the same position that I started in despite discomforts (i.e. sitting on my front porch at midnight in a wrought iron chair as I fed every hungry mosquito on the East Coast).
Usually, I jot a few notes as I’m reading. Just small stuff (like the way I felt as I encounter the highs and lows or any editing mistakes I notice). But when I picked my phone up and started, there was no way I could stop. Not for a million dollars or anything else the universe could have offered me at the time. So here I am, sans notes and without any idea how I finished this story in just over a half hour.
That is one of a couple of cons to this read - yes, I’ll say it - more please! My final issue would have to be the quick changes in perspective. It seemed as if I was with Cheng one moment and a scant half page later I dove into Angela’s head.
But as a disclaimer to my prior complaints, I devoured this book on my phone as if it was electronic Thanksgiving and Lemon Truffles was the last turkey in town.
This is a must read for romance lovers in general and not just those who appreciate IR. And if it were a smidgeon longer, I would certainly buy a print copy despite my personal preference for e-books.
-Reviewed by: Jennifer
February 26, 2014
This wasn't a terrible read by any means. It was simply flat and failed to shine. The plot is a very well traveled one. One night stand. Lost number. Reunited. Child.
It is set again an more international background though the ages of the characters are a bit too young for the kind of success they had. The heroine is engaged when the hero happens to find her.
The interracial piece has promise with an Asian hero and an African American heroine which is why I picked up the book but while it is thought about it doesn't really impact the characters or the plot in any real way.
The main issue is all the telling vs showing that goes on.
I will check out another book by this writer to see if things are improving, however.
It is set again an more international background though the ages of the characters are a bit too young for the kind of success they had. The heroine is engaged when the hero happens to find her.
The interracial piece has promise with an Asian hero and an African American heroine which is why I picked up the book but while it is thought about it doesn't really impact the characters or the plot in any real way.
The main issue is all the telling vs showing that goes on.
I will check out another book by this writer to see if things are improving, however.
December 19, 2014
3.75 stars. This love at first sight one night stand was a winner. Angela Hawkins is a black American working for the US State Dept. at the American Embassy in Hong Kong China when she meets Cheng Hung Liu who is a high ranking executive with an investment firm there; the two meet at a bar and spend the night together with a promise from Cheng to contact Angela when he returns from Shanghai. Five years pass before they reunite, she has their son, is engaged to another man and thinks he lied to her when she never heard from him. It turns out he was beaten almost to death, had been trying to find her ... They get back together and get married.
May 9, 2012
WOW an EXTREMELY quick and very SWEET treat...love at first sight..almost drama-free romance...IMHO it's a PLEASANT break from the "norm"...and I'm actually looking forward to reading Beverly and Nate's story.
April 2, 2012
Very nice IR.
January 6, 2014
I thought this was a fun story. I was rooting for them to get together from the very beginning. I liked it so much that I bought the second book. I am excited to see what happens next.
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February 5, 2014Really nice read
it was a good book I am glad about the outcome really looking forward to the next chapter in this saga
it was a good book I am glad about the outcome really looking forward to the next chapter in this saga
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