The Chocolate Lovers gang and their crazy stories come together in one, special edition book!
Book 1 - Seduction and Snacks: 2012 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee - Best Romance 2013 Indie Romance Convention Award for Best Indie First Book Claire is a twenty-something, single mom that grudgingly helps her best friend sell sex toys while she attempts to make enough money to start her own business to give her foul-mouthed, but extremely lovable (when he's asleep) toddler a better life. When Carter, the one-night-stand from her past that changed her life forever, shows up in her hometown bar without any recollection of her besides her unique chocolate scent, Claire will make it a point that he remembers her this time. With Carter's undisguised shock at suddenly finding out he has a four-year-old son and Claire's panic that her stretch marks and slim to none bedroom experience will send the man of her dreams heading for the hills, the pair will do whatever they can to get their happily ever after.
Book 2 - Futures and Frosting: Carter, Claire and Gavin have formed the perfect little family. Their friends are getting married and everyone is growing up, maturing and ready to face the future. Or are they? From bachelorette party hell, porn addictions, dinner roll baseball and botched wedding proposals to finding out everyone's extended family is chock full of crazy, Carter and Claire begin to question the strength of the ties that bind them. Unfortunately, these ties have nothing to do with fuzzy handcuffs and everything to do with the mounting differences between them. Will their friends make a mess of things with their inappropriate comments and need to know everything, or will they convince the couple that happily-ever-after sometimes really can start with beer pong?
Book 3 - Troubles and Treats: Drew and Jenny have spent years being the envy of their friends with their out of control sex lives – well, not really. Mostly it makes their friends want to throw up in their mouths a little. With two little kids and two busy lives, for the first time, Drew and Jenny aren’t on the same page in the bedroom. Drew will stop at nothing to get his previously amorous wife back in the sack and Jenny will do anything for a full night of sleep. Carter and Claire, and Jim and Liz are their usual (un)helpful selves and are full of advice for the discontented duo, wanting nothing more than to help restore order to the usually happy couple’s lives. In the third and final installment of the Chocolate Lovers Series, will Drew and Jenny find the spark that’s been missing in their marriage, or will the trouble they’re having cause a stickier situation than the time Jenny poured honey all over Drew and he fused himself to a tree?
Short Story - Hearts and Llamas Join the Chocolate Lovers gang as they celebrate Valentine's Day in their usual fashion - with hair pulling, cage fighting and farm animals!
Tara Sivec is a USA Today best-selling author, wife, mother, chauffeur, maid, short-order cook, baby-sitter, and sarcasm expert. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and looks forward to the day when all three of them become adults and move out.
After working in the brokerage business for fourteen years, Tara decided to pick up a pen and write instead of shoving it in her eye out of boredom. She writes in a wide range of genres including Romantic Comedy, Romantic Comedy/Mystery, Romantic Suspense, New Adult Drama, Contemporary Romance and Psychological Thriller. Her novel Seduction and Snacks won first place in the Indie Romance Convention Reader's Choice Awards 2013 for Best Indie First Book and she was voted Best Indie Author in the Indie Romance Convention Reader's Choice Awards 2014.
In her spare time, Tara loves to dream about all of the baking she'll do and naps she'll take when she ever gets spare time.
The Chocolate Lovers: Sweet Stories about Love, Friendship, and Inappropriate Behavior is the box set of all three books and a little novella by Tara Sivec. The books included are: Book one: Seduction and Snacks Book two: Futures and Frosting Book three: Troubles and Treats Book 3.5: Hearts and Llamas
Books one and two focus on Claire and Carter. We get their beginning when they first met, and then skip ahead to five years later when they reconnect as well as the beginning of Claire and her best friend Liz’s new business, Seduction and Snacks.
Book three is Drew and Jenny’s story and this one is even more hilarious with their antics. These two are a little bit clueless and a lot of bit crazy!
Hearts and Llamas is only available as part of this box set and is a short little novella that focuses on Valentine’s Day.
These books are so much fun but also sweet and swoony. I enjoyed them all so much. I also reviewed each book individually in greater detail. I’ve had this series on my to read list forever and am so glad I finally picked it up.
Wait a sec! Do you mean to tell me that the ENTIRE Chocolate Lover's series is now available to own in one convenient edition?
I AM SO FREAKIN' EXCITED OVER THIS! ____________________________
Official Review:
Now that I've had the chance to finish reading the series, I will forever worship Tara as the comedic goddess that she is! Very few stories manage to make me laugh, yet this entire book had me in stitches from beginning to end!
I read the first book, then this collection came up, so glad I bought it, have now read them all, just so laugh out loud funny, cheeky and gives you a warm happy feeling, you wish you were friends with Claire, Liz and Jenny, so many funny situations. I cannot even begin, please, please give them all a read, you won't regret it, by the end of it it my favourite character was Drew, he's such an idiot but you kinda love him for it. Enjoy.
F#*^ing Brilliant!! Absolutely THE funniest book I've ever read! And I thought I was twisted?
How could you not love a book filled with dessert, dildos, debauchery, and dirty-mouthed toddlers?!? What about a book filled with 80's movie quotes, drinking and beer pong, and the most unimaginable sex scenarios ever?!? Not to mention the truly amazing friendships and relationships.
Tara Sivec has ruined me for all other books, and I love it! My inner monologue is now littered with curse words and ridiculous phrases, not that it wasn't always like that, but it is even worse now!
This really was an amazing book. I loved the characters and their relationships. I loved their flaws and faults. I loved the humor and embarrassing situations. I loved how they worked through problems and never have up on themselves or each other. I loved how the characters stayed true to themselves. Thank you for this deliciously hilarious story!
This series was the funnies I've even read Claire, Carter & Gavin to start out with holy funny! Then add to it Liz & Jim and then Jenny & Drew holy crap the things that come out of Jenny's mouth! LOL It's not only funny but it is extremely sensual as well! The series just kept getting better & better! I'm definitely going to have withdrawal not being able to curl up with this crew! This series was hilarious! Warning... do not read in public or you'll be looked at funny or told to be quiet because of laughing loudly! LOL Seriously you won't be able to contain your hysterical laughter. I was even sent to my room by my husband and my son and asked to shut the door because I was being too LOUD!! I found myself talking to myself saying "No they aren't doing that are they? OMG I have to stop laughing, I'm choking..." Snort, Laugh, Snort!!!! ! This has to be one of the best series ever!
I'm a person that NEVER laughs out loud with a book, it is always an inside laugh, however this book had me in stitches.
Carter, Claire and Gavin, what a hilarious family. The regular family outings, everything that is to go wrong does, their antics had me holding my stomach. Don't get me started on Gavin talk about NO FILTER!! and Drew and Gavin they are hysterical, really what 26 year fights with a 5 year old LMAO.
Drew and Jenny....OMG!!! What I wouldn't give for friends like this, sexy, funny and still going strong with the innuendos and sex later in life.
I will recommend this book again and again and then again.
Let me count the ways I loved these books, never mind, it would take way too long. But I will say that this is the set of books that you never knew you NEEDED to read.
Every single character is a joy to behold and you will fall in love with their quirks and flaws. But most of all you will have a great time right along with them and I promise you will laugh out loud - a lot!
All 3 books were great! Apart from all the language- it was hilarious!!
Just finished the second book! There is a LOT of foul language-- the story line is great & there is some funny - even hilarious things said/done. I've laughed out loud several times! Can't wait to start the third later tonight!
Tara Sivec is the absolute queen of rom-com! She has the absolute best characters in these books! Every one of them is quirky and they all have these amazing personalities! Gavin and Jenny are just too much! You know a book is a good one when you read it multiple times...this was my 4th time reading “Seduction and Snacks”. And I laughed just as hard this time as I did the first! Seriously funny when you have to stop reading because you’re laughing so hard there are tears in your eyes. If you ever need a good laugh and want to read a great rom-com, any of the books in this series will do the trick. But with all the books bundled together - comedy perfection!
⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ This collection of books will make you cry and possibly wet yourself from laughing so hard. This was a new author for me, so I read a sample of the first book in this series, and was hooked by the end of page two. The collection of characters are so well thought out and put together you feel as if your spying on them. In fact I love them so much I am reading the first book in a new series about the next generation. I would highly recommend this series to anyone.
This was a series I have always wanted to read and just never got around too. Now that I have I am in love with this series. It was definitely a read where you can’t help but laugh. The guys, the girls, the kids, even the parents are just over the top. You know those polls where people ask you if there is a character you want to be friends in real life? Well it would be all these characters. I want to be friends with all these characters.
I bought this as a recommendation, even though I mostly stick to my KU subscription for reading material and I'm so glad I did. Book 1 in this box set is without doubt one of the funniest, most irreverent stories I have ever read. I was literally laughing out loud and I was laying in bed, with my shoulder quaking trying to keep quiet so I didn't wake hubby because I couldn't put it down.
I absolutely LOVED this series!!! I've lost count of how many of my fabulous Sharks have recommended it, but I'm sooooooo glad that I took their advice. This is one of the funniest series I've ever read with more laugh out loud moments than I can count!
Love love loved this series... I absolutely love this authors sense of humor. She is funny AF. Completely unpolitical and writes and says what people probably think, but might never actually say. So great !!
This series is hands down the funniest, laugh out loud books I have ever read. I laughed so hard I scared my poor pugs. I kept having to put my kindle down to wipe the tears from my eyes. Love it!!!
This book was extremely long. It was really interesting in the beginning but, lost me towards the middle. Things got crazy weird the last half of the 509+ page novel. It just didn't do it for me. Sorry
This took me forever to read however it's was utterly hilarious !!! I laughed my way through this book it has a poop tin of very adult humour in it so be warned lol 😂
I have never laughed so hard, not only was this book so funny but a great story line that made you not want to put it down. Highly recommend these books !
Some parts were excellent and some parts not but the stupidly funny parts made me laugh so hard I added the 4th star to my rating. Book 3 was hilariously silly.
DNF at 67%. The second story was very disappointing, and I didn't like Drew so there was no way I was reading an entire story about him.
Seduction and Snacks (Book #1) 3-1/2***
Very sweet story, I really enjoyed it. I would have given a higher rating except for the numerous editing problems: typos, missing/incorrect words. Distracts me from the story.
She said/he said, first person POV.
Futures and Frosting (Book #2) 2** An editing disaster. Extensive incorrect/misspelled words; incorrect/missing punctuation; the tense kept changing from past to present then back again, in the same sentence! At times, the scene descriptions were so confusing, it wasn't clear what was happening. I really struggled to finish the story.
The book description/blurb is misleading. It references of the "mounting differences" between Claire and Carter. There were no differences, just misunderstandings and assumptions about their expectations for the future, and a huge failure to communicate.
This series seriously has to be the funniest series I have ever read. I laughed from start to finish with each book.
Book 1 - Seduction and Snacks
This book was fantastic, it has to be the funniest book I have read you will be laughing from start to finish! Not only is this book funny its also sweet, steamy and sexy. It is the perfect book it has everything you want. Lots of laugh out loud moments and one liners.
Claire gets dragged off to a frat party by her best friend Liz. While there she meets a gorgeous guy (Carter) they hit it off when he quotes her a line from her favourite movie 'Heathers'. With some liquid courage behind her she hooks with him, loosing her virginity. The next morning she sneaks out and realises they never swapped names. A few weeks later she gets a big surprise, the one thing she never wanted the one thing that wasn't in her future. A baby...
Claire, Liz and Liz's new flame Jim ask around and search every where on campus for this mystery man, but find nothing. Claire's life takes a major turn now pregnant she drops out of college and moves back home with her dad. Five years later Claire has a very active funny little four year old Gavin. One day of of the blue the man from her one night stand walks back into her life, Carter is drunk and has no idea who she is. When their paths cross again Carter finally realises who Claire is, he is also shocked when he realises he has a four year old son.
I loved the banter between all characters in this book. Gavin has to be funniest kid. I loved side characters Liz, Jim and Drew Jenny well not sure what to say about her lol.
Looking forward to the next instalment and hoping its just as funny
Book 2 - Futures and Frosting
I don't think I have laughed so much reading a series, I laughed so much with Seduction and Snacks, Futures and Frosting is just as funny.
We pick up where we left off in Seduction and Snacks. Carter, Claire and Gavin are adjusting to living together, after sleeping in a bed by yourself its hard to get use to your partner snoring! Claire and Carter are still figuring out one another as well as their feelings for each other. Their relationship is tested along the way with their own individual insecurities and their friends and family continue to play a big part in their lives. Gavin is still as funny as ever, the kid is a crack up. I loved the ending and epilogue, a great ending for Clair and Carter.
I love the one liners and the banter between them all. This series is a must read!
Book 3- Troubles and Treats
Just when you think this series can't get any funnier they do, for the first time ever while reading I was laughing so much I started crying and snorting. WTF that has never ever happened.
We are back with the crew Claire, Carter, Liz, Jim, Jenny, Drew and Gavin of course. They are all funny but no one is funnier then Drew in this book. It's a few years down the track after Futures and Frosting, Jenny and Drew are married with two kids Veronica and baby Billy. When Jenny fell pregnant with Billy and since she has had him their sex life is nonexistent . After reading how kinky these two are in the other books it took me by surprise lol. The crew along with Drew's dad helps them get back what they once had, no vanilla sex for these two, the kinky sex they were known for.
I still laugh out loud when I think of certain things that happened and don't think I have ever highlighted so much of a book before well this whole series.