Love Requires Chocolate
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A budding theater nerd has her semester abroad all planned out, until a cute soccer player offers to show her the real Paris—the first book of a YA romance series with international flavor!
“A heartfelt romance that’s as delicious as chocolate.”—New York Times bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk
Whitney Curry is primed to have an epic semester abroad. She’s created the perfect itinerary and many, many to-do lists after collecting every detail possible about Paris. Thus, she anticipates a grand adventure filled with vintage boutiques, her idol Josephine Baker’s old stomping grounds, and endless plays sure to inspire the ones she writes and—ahem—directs!
But all is not as she imagined when she’s dropped off at her prestigious new Parisian lycée. A fish out of water, Whitney struggles to juggle schoolwork, homesickness, and mastering the French language. Luckily, she lives for the drama. Literally.
Cue French tutor Thierry Magnon, a grumpy yet très handsome soccer star, who’s determined to show Whitney what she’s missing. Is this type-A theater nerd ready to see how lessons on the City of Lights can turn into lessons on love?
The swoony Love in Translation romances can be read together or separately:
LOVE REQUIRES CHOCOLATE • LOVE CRAVES CARDAMOM (Coming in May 2025!)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a devourable debut, Stringfield cooks up a decadent romance between an ambitious Black American drama student and the pragmatic son of a Parisian chocolatier. Whitney Curry arrives in Paris for her semester at an international arts high school with a plan: complete her one-woman musical about legendary vaudeville performer and activist Josephine Baker and check off every item on her "Epic Parisian Bucket List." Unfortunately, Whitney's French tutor, "grouchy smart-ass" Thierry Magnon, proves distracting. Thierry reluctantly agrees to help her navigate the city, but his perspective of Paris challenges both Whitney's list of essential experiences and her idealized version of the place that offered Baker and other Black American artists refuge. As she warms to Thierry, Whitney must decide whether to cling to her plans or embrace the real Paris—and the complicated boy introducing her to it. Conversational first-person narration and sometimes reckless yet entertaining antics from Whitney form the bedrock of this rom-com, which incorporates expected genre tropes without relying on them for sustained interest. Though romance drives the plot, Stringfield enriches the novel via Whitney's broadening experience of global Black culture. Ages 12–up.
