Cathy Cassidy

Get ready to meet JAKE ... After the amazing twist at the end of Sweet Honey, the sixth and final book in the Chocolate Box Girls series follows Jake, the Tanberry sisters' newly discovered half-brother ... As if the bombshell that he had three half-sisters wasn't enough, Jake's life in London is turning into a nightmare. He has nowhere to run-except for maybe his new family in Somerset ... But Jake knows next to nothing about the Tanberrys. Will he be welcome there? And even if he is, can anyone really help him turn things around?

Fortune Cookie

Grace O'Callaghan

What a lovely conclusion to this series.

In Fortune Cookie, we follow Jake Cooke, who lives with his mum and two sisters in a flat above a Chinese restaurant. When things go disastrously wrong and the restaurant gets flooded, Jake can’t help but feel it’s his fault. He’s always been trouble. So when he finds out that he’s the half brother of the Tanberry sisters, he heads to Somerset to find a way to contact his rich dad to pay for the restaurant repairs. But has. Cookie bitten off more than he can chew?

It was fun to dive back in with these characters. As always I absolutely loved Tanglewood. It’s just such a beautiful and atmospheric place.

Cookie definitely wasn’t my favourite character. He just didn’t think things through at all. But ultimately I did like his character arc.

I think that Honey has grown the most throughout the series. She started off as being mean to everyone, eventually tolerating Paddy, trying to get her act together and finally making up with Cherry.

I think the plot may have been the slowest part. In all honesty, not much happened. It was mostly Cookie trying to get in touch with his dad. I did however really enjoy the TV show on the Tanberrys. All the talk of chocolate made me hungry!

All in all, a solid conclusion to the series. I’m not really in the age range for this series anymore so I was a little bored by the simplistic storyline. If it wasn’t middle grade I would’ve given it two stars, but for the genre it’s a three to me.