2006 Bookcrossing comments

It's been a couple of years since I read this one actually. And whilst it is a reasonable read, I didn't like it as much as Like Water for Chocolate, and I don't feel that it's one I'm going to want to keep forever and ever. Whereas Like Water for Chocolate was original in the way it was told through the recipes, this is just your usual kind of romantic story.

It does actually give a fair picture of the two parents and explain how they see things, rather than just painting the wife as money obsessed and the husband as a free spirit.

The pair end up spliting and not talking to each other for decades, but not moving on either, and that did seem like such a waste of life.