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