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thelizzielibrary 's review for:
Secrets of the Chocolate House
by Paula Brackston
3 stars because I'm conflicted about this whole series. I would give 5+ stars to the modern time of it, I really just want a romance novel about Xanthe setting up an antiques shop and everything she gets up to with her life, but the time travel aspect just doesn't work for me. I liked this better than the first book, but every time Xanthe comes up with a lie about where she's going to her mother I can't help but wish she were actually going to do the lies instead of travel in time. I don't feel like the Spinning storyline has been really developed, and Fairfax really wasn't a convincing villain. Still, I'll be reading the next one because I want to read more about what the modern residents of Marlborough get up to!