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Review: Bittersweet Chocolate

 


Title: Bittersweet Chocolate 

Author: C.M. Guidroz 

Release Date: January 2024



" I am in some sick love triangle with my husband and my insanity."

In the quiet corridors of suburbia, where manicured lawns whispered tales of ordinary lives, I stood on the precipice of my own unraveling. Our house, a carefully curated sanctuary of domestic bliss, hid the storms brewing within its walls—the storms that gave no warning, the flip of a switch, the great awakening. Whatever you want to call it, it doesn’t matter. They will say I lost it. That the pressures of motherhood was too much for me. No, I haven’t lost anything; I have found exactly what I have been looking for- her. My sweet, sweet, insanity.



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So, I won this book in a giveaway - it has been on my TBR for awhile, and it was a great selection for a Valentine's read. 

This is a splatterpunk book - it's dark & has trigger Warnings so definitely check those out before diving in. 

It's a short, quick read & follows Emily - a stay at home mom to a toddler & a wife in a failing marriage. - Her husband Mark is an ass & definitely deserves what he got. 

I've been in a similar crappy relationship - and sometimes certain thoughts was a nice reprieve. A daydream in the nightmare of life. So I totally get where Emily was coming from. And although it wasn't my favorite read, it was definitely relatable. 

3.5 ⭐ out of 5⭐. 


Trigger Warnings: 

- infidelity

- domestic violence 

- emotional violence

- blood/gore

- torture

- murder 

- body mutilation 

- sexual content 



ABOUT THE AUTHOR:


Candy lives with her husband and two kids in Louisiana. She weaves tales that test the limits, dating readers to embrace the darkness within her pages. Welcome to the twisted world of her imagination. 





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