Book Review: The Sweetest Thing by Lilian Darcy

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the sweetest thingThe title and the cover of “The Sweetest Thing ” by Lilian Darcy give the impression that it is a love story that revolves around chocolate.

But it is not about the chocolate per se. It is about the love of chocolate of a mother and daughter that bridged the gap between them. And on another subplot, buying the perfect chocolate also signaled the end of a perfect marriage.

Set in the fictional town of Marietta, Montana, “The Sweetest Thing ” is about love and forgiveness. It is also righting wrongdoings from the past. And in this story, our hero and heroine – Ren Fletcher and Tully Morgan find out that chocolate is not really the sweetest thing. That title had been claimed by LOVE.

The Sweetest Thing is Rated M for Mature due to references to drug use and addiction. There are also mild sex scenes.

Description

Tully Morgan hasn’t been back to Marietta for more than a few brief visits since the night of the 1996 senior prom eighteen years ago, when the chance exposure of a long-held family secret sent her running to her uncle in California in shock. She stood up her date Ren Fletcher that night, and she hasn’t seen him since.

Now she’s here for an extended stay, to help take care of her seriously ill mother. It’s an edgy reconciliation, the first time that Tully, Patty and Sugar Morgan have been together since that long ago prom night. Tully has had so much anger toward Sugar… can she ever forgive her?

And Sugar still has one more secret that needs to be dealt with, one that needs Ren Fletcher’s help. Has he forgiven Tully for leaving him in the lurch on prom night? And is there any chance that he and Tully can rekindle what they might once have had, when he’s still tied to someone else?