Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Criminally Cocoa

 Criminally Cocoa is a fun novella in the Amish Candy Shop series.   Amanda Flower set it in NYC rather than the usual OH Amish country.  In this book Charlotte, Bailey and Cass find themselves in NY filming a tv show starring Bailey.  This book has a more innocent feel to it as the narrator is Charlotte.  This perspective allows Flower to explain much of the Amish point of view as well as many of the concepts of Rumspringa.  This makes for a change of pace from the usual Englisch frame of reference the reader gets when Bailey is narrating.  While the story is more innocent it is fun to see the city from the perspective of Charlotte who has lived her whole life in rural Ohio.  Never fear though there is still a mystery to be solved and the antics of Jethro are still alive and well.  A fun interlude in the series.  I read this book out of order and it did not impact the plot of the next book in the series.  I read and reviewed Toxic Toffee in 2020.  

This book in addition to being the 2nd book with the word Cocoa in it while being read at Easter time met the challenge prompts to find a book with a Rabbit on it and a mini challenge for April by 52 Book Club.  This latter is the prompt to have an egg on the cover.   


 Criminally Cocoa

Criminally Cocoa by Amanda Flower
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

a fun novella in the Amish Candy Shop series. I really enjoyed reading a story from Charlotte's perspective and learning more about the Amish experience of Rumspringa. I found it especially fun to see Charlotte's take on NYC as I lived there when I was about her age but I had seen more of the world than she has.

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Challenge Prompts

The Challenge Prompts I will use this for are:  

  1. Goodreads and Reading by the Numbers #ReadingByNumbers2023 Book #   
  2. Finishing the Series   #FinishingTheSeries2023 Yes the Amish Candy series.  
  3. Stacking the Series  #stackingseries2023 3.5
  4. Series Catchup #seriescatchup2023 1
  5. What an Animal Book #14
  6. Mount TBR   #MountTBR2023  Book # 7
  7. Back List Reader  #Backlistreader  Book #38
  8. Cruisin thru Cozies  Free choice #20
  9. Cloak & Dagger  #CloakDaggerChal  Book #39
  10. Craving for Cozies  Book #35
  11. Six Shooter Challenge  Target #102  Shot #1
  12. Medical Examiner Challenge  Toe Tags
  13. 23 in 2023 # 12 A book with a rabbit on the cover or in the title
  14. Beat the Backlist #BTB2023  #10 bought and forgot it
  15. Nerd Daily #thenerddaily #nerdreading2023 #10. A COMING-OF-AGE STORY
  16. PopSugar #popsugarreadingchallenge # A book with a rabbit on the cover
  17. Pick your Poison  # 132 A book you can read in a day

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