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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  CatheOlson | Nov 20, 2009 |  Overall, I found it very engaging, but I found the multiple narrators a bit irksome, as it took a while to determine who was saying what. (  ) edhead | Oct 2, 2009 | A decent follow up to Chocolat, where the mother and daughter have again changed their identities and this time landed in Paris (Montmartre, I think). In their chocolaterie, they encounter a happy, friendly, pushy woman who isn't quite what she seems, and she brings some darkness into the novel. The book still shows that there's a nice bond between mother & daughter. It didn't make any sense why Vivienne was engaged to the older, boring businessman that she obviously didn't much care for. The way she'd been portrayed, she wouldn't have given in to that, I don't think. The ending was a bit too convenient and unbelievable, but overall, it was an entertaining book. (  ) JulieCarter | Aug 21, 2009 | This sequel to Chocolat takes place four years later in another city with several new characters and story lines. It is a lot of book (450 pages) for a very small story. Bad, but appealing, witch tries to steal good witch's life and child. That is clear from the first pages but it takes a very long, often tedious time, for anybody else to figure that out. I was unfamiliar with the most of the numerous references to occult symbols and spirits so I found them meaningless. This sequel, like Chocolat, includes several minor characters, but I felt they were left largely undeveloped, which was a shame because that was a lot of the charm of the first book. A word of caution to those who only saw the movie Chocolat and never read the book. Both books are set much later than the post WW II era of the the movie and, especially in this sequel that changes the tone. Also, Roux, the Johnny Depp character, figures in a very limted way in this book. So, this might be a fun read if you care about what happened to some of the Chocolat characters. But, there are no doubt a lot of books more worthy of your precious reading time. ( ) shearon | Jul 6, 2009 | I received this book for Christmas, otherwise I'd never have picked it myself to read. It's a sequel to Chocolat, which I never read but saw the movie, fortunately, because there are many allusions to the past and if you know that story all the better. There are three narrators, Zozie, Vianne, and Anouk. Symbols at the beginning of the chapters indicate who will be narrating, so there is a type of 3rd person omniscient but told 1st person. The story is interesting to a point, because Zozie has all these secrets and past identities, but the whole occult aspect, which increases as the book progresses, did not interest me. In the end, it's really a type of modern day fairy tale, witches and kidnapped children and spells etc. I think the fact that it took me six months to get through the book says something. (  ) LDVoorberg | Jul 1, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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Note: The Girl with No Shadow was published in the UK as The Lollipop Shoes
Be careful what you wish for . . .
Hailed as an "irresistible confection" (Entertainment Weekly), "as sweet, rich and utterly satisfying as a fine truffle" (Wall Street Journal), and "an amazement of riches" (New York Times), Chocolat won the hearts of readers and critics everywhere. At last, Joanne Harris returns with The Girl with No Shadow, an exquisite treat that continues the story that began in her international bestseller.
Since she was a little girl, the wind has dictated every move Vianne Rocher has made, buffeting her from place to place, from the small French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and the baby, Rosette, safe.
Her new home above the chocolate shop offers calm and quiet: no red sachets hang by the door; no sparks of magic fill the air; no Indian skirts with bells hang in her closet. Conformity brings with it anonymity— and peace. There is even Thierry, the stolid businessman who wants to take care of Yanne and the children. On the cusp of adolescence, an increasingly rebellious and restless Anouk does not understand. But soon the weathervane turns . . . and into their lives blows the charming and enigmatic Zozie de l'Alba. And everything begins to change.
Zozie offers the brightness Yanne's life needs. Anouk, too, is dazzled by this vivacious woman with the lollipop-red shoes who seems to understand her better than anyone— especially her mother. Yet this friendship is not what it seems. Ruthless, devious, and seductive, Zozie has plans that will shake their world to pieces. And with everything she loves at stake, Yanne must face a difficult choice: Run, as she has done so many times before, or stand and confront this most dangerous enemy. . . .
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I think if I hadn't read [I]Chocolat[/I] I would have liked this better. I hated the way the mother was such a . . . I don't know . . . wimp I guess in this one. She had no confidence, no magic with her chocolates and now this new character Zozie was the one with all the personality and magic. But if I hadn't known what the mother had been like, I probably would have been fine with this book. Don't know if that makes sense. That's not to say I didn't enjoy it, I did like it but that just kept niggling at me. (