Love and Lists is the first book in the Chocolate Lovers spinoff – Chocoholics: The foul-mouthed offspring tell their stories.
Twenty-five-year-old Gavin Ellis has always had the love and support of his family ever since he was a little boy and couldn’t stop talking about his penis. He’s also always had their unsolicited advice and uncanny knack of embarrassing him at all costs. Now that he’s an adult and trying to convince the love of his life to love him back, things haven’t changed very much from when he was younger.
When Gavin’s best friend Tyler suggests he make a to-do list of items that will ensure he wins the girl, Gavin is one-hundred-percent on board: after a few six packs.
After puking in the shrubs, a bad experience with Viagra, a Sex-Ed course gone wrong, and a slew of other mishaps courtesy of his family and friends, Gavin is pretty sure this list will be the death of him.
Sometimes, trying to make someone love you with a list isn’t always the best idea. Especially when “Show her your penis” is the first “to-do” item…
After working in the brokerage business for fourteen years, Tara decided to pick up a pen and write instead of shoving it in her eye out of boredom. She is the author of the Playing with Fire series, the Chocolate Lovers series, the Chocoholics series, the Fool Me Once series and Watch Over Me. Her novel Seduction and Snacks won first place in the Indie Romance Convention Reader’s Choice Awards 2013 for Best Indie First Book.
In her spare time, Tara loves to dream about all of the baking she’ll do and naps she’ll take when she ever gets spare time.
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Another great book by Tara Sivec. I absolutely loved the Chocolate Lovers series and was excited to find out that Love and Lists was a spin off about the children of my favorite characters but all grown up. This book is about Gavin, the four year old foul mouthed child of Claire and Carter. He’s now a 25 year old man who is in love with his best friend Charlotte who just happens to be the daughter of his parent’s best friends, Liz and Jim. The problem is, she doesn’t have a clue. He and his friend, Tyler, concoct a plan or list if you will of ways to make Charlotte fall in love with him. Soon, “The List”, causes all kinds of trouble for Gavin. Nothing seems to go as planned, leaving you with all kinds of laugh out loud moments that Tara’s writing is good for.
I loved that the gang was all back together, and we got to see the same crazy behavior from Claire, Liz, Carter, Jim, Jenny, and Drew as middle aged adults with adult children. I even learned a few new terms I’ve never heard before that had me rolling. I’m looking forward to reading the next in the series. 5 stars from me.
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