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pattydsf's review against another edition
3.0
This is my third opportunity to enjoy Colgan's storytelling and it was a great choice for the end of our pandemic year. It has been four years since I read anything by Colgan and I hope I don't wait so long again. I learned a lot about British sweets and that was fun.
chatdunoirreadsalot123's review against another edition
4.0
I’ve read many of Jenny Colgan’s books. Met many women who started over in a small town or at a remote island. Nina is still my favorite, but Rosie now takes the second place. What a delightful story!
jennie_cole's review
3.0
Sweetshop of Dreams is a feel good, quick read by Jenny Colgan. This story revolves around Rosie Hopkins who works as a Nurse Auxiliary in London. She is then asked to go to the small town her family is from to help her Great-Aunt Lilian get back on her feet. This involves getting her back to health, cleaning up the family sweetshop in order to sell it, and get Lilian into a home. Like all Colgan novels where an outsider comes to a small UK town Rosie is charmed by the town and makes some friends as well as some enemies.
This is one of those palette cleanser novels where it is nothing too intense, is fast paced, and give you something enjoyable to read just when you need a book like that. If you need an idyllic town story with a female lead who finds herself pick this one up.
This is one of those palette cleanser novels where it is nothing too intense, is fast paced, and give you something enjoyable to read just when you need a book like that. If you need an idyllic town story with a female lead who finds herself pick this one up.
mari_escapeinabook's review against another edition
4.0
Such a cute and utterly charming read, add a bit of sweets and a little heartache and it is near perfection. A great start to the reading year of 2013.
kirstendumo's review against another edition
4.0
I quite enjoyed this one. I had to quiet all the reality questions I had about the story and just roll with it. Loved the setting and the characters, and as a big candy fan I loved the sweet shop.
hannah_who's review against another edition
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
2.5
Easy read but predictable. Liked the Aunt's story more
specialk3782's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoy Jenny Colgan’s series. This may not be my favorite of them all but enjoyable nonetheless. I love the coming of life to the sweet shop and the reference to all the different sweets. The character of Gerard makes me cringe during the whole story but it works in the big picture.
_rebeccareads_'s review against another edition
4.0
I've been wanting to read 'Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe' for ages, but never got round to getting hold of a copy, so I was delighted when I found this book in a local bookshop. I began reading as soon as I got home that night.
The first thing that drew me in was the amazing descriptions of the sweets, and in particular the extracts from Aunt Lilian's book at the beginning of each chapter. I love traditional sweetshops, and the book really reminded me of when I was little.
I also loved the extracts from the 1940s when Lilian was younger, as I love reading war fiction. What I really loved, was how both the past story and the modern were linked together, and how the characters all linked together really well, and how the village people all know each other, as I think thinks like this/neighbourhood friendliness are often taken for granted nowadays. I really disliked the character of Gerard, but I loved the rest of the characters.
This is the first book I've read by Jenny Colgan, but I will definitely be reading more. A really easy to read book with some beautiful descriptions.
The first thing that drew me in was the amazing descriptions of the sweets, and in particular the extracts from Aunt Lilian's book at the beginning of each chapter. I love traditional sweetshops, and the book really reminded me of when I was little.
I also loved the extracts from the 1940s when Lilian was younger, as I love reading war fiction. What I really loved, was how both the past story and the modern were linked together, and how the characters all linked together really well, and how the village people all know each other, as I think thinks like this/neighbourhood friendliness are often taken for granted nowadays. I really disliked the character of Gerard, but I loved the rest of the characters.
This is the first book I've read by Jenny Colgan, but I will definitely be reading more. A really easy to read book with some beautiful descriptions.
lm_henderson's review against another edition
5.0
I just thought this was brilliant.I loved the descriptions of the characters,for a change I didnt quite know who she would end up with which is unusual for a chick lit novel!!!Really enjoyed the recipes in their too,the only problem is,it made me crave sweets!!!!
rosemarieshort's review against another edition
3.0
An extremely sugary (pun intended) read. I far and away preferred the 1940s flashback sections, with Lilian being a more human character than Rosie, who I felt occasionally suffered from main character syndrome (everyone almost instantly liking her, inventing angst / problems where there were none, changing her mind suddenly to advance the plot and create drama etc.)
The male depictions were patchy - various love interests were poorly characterised, with other men being fairly well fleshed out in comparison. I felt the love story lacking, with not enough time spent developing a bond between the characters, to warrant their sudden and almost inexplicable infatuation with one another. Far more satisfying was the bond which developed between Rosie and Lillian.
A curl up on the sofa with a hot chocolate read, and fairly perfect as chick lit. I was hoping for more, but would read Jenny Colgan again for the same relaxed, easy going reading experience.
The male depictions were patchy - various love interests were poorly characterised, with other men being fairly well fleshed out in comparison. I felt the love story lacking, with not enough time spent developing a bond between the characters, to warrant their sudden and almost inexplicable infatuation with one another. Far more satisfying was the bond which developed between Rosie and Lillian.
A curl up on the sofa with a hot chocolate read, and fairly perfect as chick lit. I was hoping for more, but would read Jenny Colgan again for the same relaxed, easy going reading experience.