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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
kouw's review against another edition
3.0
Magic mixes with modern day issues in a lovely way, just like in Chocolat - a bit long, could have done with some streamlining. Wonderfully poetic language. Delightful, if a bit predictable. Also not a great fan of the casual fatshaming.
apechild's review against another edition
3.0
Joanne Harris is a funny one for me. I get through her books quite quickly, but I find them underwhelming, with the same themes cropping up again and again. Chocolat, the first I read, is still my favourite (and has shelf space) as does Jigs and Reels but that's it. This is all right, don't get me wrong, but sometimes you need to know where to stop with a story. I've had this book waiting for over ten years and I think part of the wait is the title, The Lollipop Shoes, which is a bit twee. I think they published with another title in the States.
It could be 20 years since I read Chocolat so I'm a little hazy on the details, and I think a lot could be jumbled with my memory of the film. The film was set in the 50s? But this book, only 4 -5 years after Chocolate is in the here and now with mobile phones and the internet. Vianne is now in Paris, under a different name, with her daughter Annie (Annouck) and younger daughter Rosettee. Running a mediochre chocolate shop and playing at normal and boring. In strolls Zozie, a funky confident young woman who starts working at the shop, builds their confidencce, helps them with all their problems la la, but there's something afoot. Well, we know straight away what's afoot as this is narrated in the first person from 3 perspectives - Vianne, Annouck and Zozie. It's interesting but first person can mean a lot of navel gazing and tell not show. Zozie is an indentity theft and a witch raised on Mexican witchcraft. She's got her eye on new things to steal. It's really quite sad though, because she does do good deeds for Vianne and Annouck. It's all part of the plan of course, but it's sad to see how they blossom and get their confidence back, and you know the insipid reasons beneath. I think the story is quite a sad but true depiction of mothers and daughters - specifically mothers losing daughters. Annuck is in her early teens and off making friends, living her life and not confiding everything in her mother. Which hurts her mother. But which I guess is life. We all take our mothers for granted and disregard them to one degree or another. So perhaps that is one of the saddest, but strongest lines in the book, which has little to do with fraudster plots or whimsical hippy witchcraft and more to do with real life.
I did cave in and had to eat some chocolate during the reading of this book.
It could be 20 years since I read Chocolat so I'm a little hazy on the details, and I think a lot could be jumbled with my memory of the film. The film was set in the 50s? But this book, only 4 -5 years after Chocolate is in the here and now with mobile phones and the internet. Vianne is now in Paris, under a different name, with her daughter Annie (Annouck) and younger daughter Rosettee. Running a mediochre chocolate shop and playing at normal and boring. In strolls Zozie, a funky confident young woman who starts working at the shop, builds their confidencce, helps them with all their problems la la, but there's something afoot. Well, we know straight away what's afoot as this is narrated in the first person from 3 perspectives - Vianne, Annouck and Zozie. It's interesting but first person can mean a lot of navel gazing and tell not show. Zozie is an indentity theft and a witch raised on Mexican witchcraft. She's got her eye on new things to steal. It's really quite sad though, because she does do good deeds for Vianne and Annouck. It's all part of the plan of course, but it's sad to see how they blossom and get their confidence back, and you know the insipid reasons beneath. I think the story is quite a sad but true depiction of mothers and daughters - specifically mothers losing daughters. Annuck is in her early teens and off making friends, living her life and not confiding everything in her mother. Which hurts her mother. But which I guess is life. We all take our mothers for granted and disregard them to one degree or another. So perhaps that is one of the saddest, but strongest lines in the book, which has little to do with fraudster plots or whimsical hippy witchcraft and more to do with real life.
I did cave in and had to eat some chocolate during the reading of this book.
cvibert's review against another edition
4.0
I really didn't like this as much as Chocolat at first. Zozie's narrative confused me initially and I really hated seeing Vianne so changed. This was all necessary, though, and I had much satisfaction in the last hundred or so pages.
thespis_94's review against another edition
4.0
A dark little fairy tale sequel to Chocolat- lots more of the sinister side of things. You really ought to read up on your MesoAmerican mythology; don't worry, the author has helpfully provided a quick little primer/guide of links here: http://www.joanne-harris.co.uk/v3site/books/lollipop/index.html to assist. (Follow this one up with Mercedes Lackey's Burning Water for another view of MesoAmerican mythology: http://www.mercedeslackey.com/books/diana1.html)
alongapath's review against another edition
3.0
Light, fun and entertaining. Chocolat hardly needed a sequel but I think that focusing on Anouk, rather than Vianne, was a good way to extend the tale.
hobhouchin's review against another edition
5.0
Was für ein tolles Buch!
Zwei kleine Mankos hat der Kritiker in mir gefunden. Zum einen baut das Buch sehr stark auf dem Vorgänger "Chocolat" auf und wenn man den nicht kennt (nur der Film reicht leider nicht aus), hat man es am Anfang sehr schwer, sich hineinzufinden. Zum anderen... bekommt man verflixt noch eins, einen Heißhunger auf Schokolade. "Chocolat" (der Film) ist nix dagegen und da erschien mir das schon so schlimm *g*.
Einige Passagen des Buches sind für meinen Geschmack etwas zu esoterisch geraten, aber das ist überlesbar. Es ist toll geschrieben und ich bin sehr dankbar für die kleinen Piktogramme über jedem Kapitel, die es einem sehr erleichtern, alle Erzähler (Anouk, Vianne & Zozie) gleich richtig zu ordnen zu können. Und ab und zu brauche ich wirklich solche Bücher mit einem richtigen, richtigen Happy End mit Schmalz und allem was so dazu gehört.
Zwei kleine Mankos hat der Kritiker in mir gefunden. Zum einen baut das Buch sehr stark auf dem Vorgänger "Chocolat" auf und wenn man den nicht kennt (nur der Film reicht leider nicht aus), hat man es am Anfang sehr schwer, sich hineinzufinden. Zum anderen... bekommt man verflixt noch eins, einen Heißhunger auf Schokolade. "Chocolat" (der Film) ist nix dagegen und da erschien mir das schon so schlimm *g*.
Einige Passagen des Buches sind für meinen Geschmack etwas zu esoterisch geraten, aber das ist überlesbar. Es ist toll geschrieben und ich bin sehr dankbar für die kleinen Piktogramme über jedem Kapitel, die es einem sehr erleichtern, alle Erzähler (Anouk, Vianne & Zozie) gleich richtig zu ordnen zu können. Und ab und zu brauche ich wirklich solche Bücher mit einem richtigen, richtigen Happy End mit Schmalz und allem was so dazu gehört.
annamarialectora's review against another edition
Lo he dejado, la magia que aparecía de forma sutil en la primera parte es aquí demasiado presente para mí, aunque es una lástima que no me guste el género fantástico porque los personajes siguen estando deliciosamente descritos, las escenas son bonitas,...