Name: Love and Lists
ISBN: 9781492108429

Tara Sivec

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.

Love and Lists

Samantha Emery

★Book Basics★ 


  Genre
: - Cont Romantic Comedy

  Series
: - 1st in the series - Advised to read the Chocolate Lovers series first

  Love triangle?
 - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)]

  Cheating?
 - (view spoiler)[No (hide spoiler)]

  HEA? -
 (view spoiler)[Yes (hide spoiler)]

  Would I read more by this author/or in this series? 
- Yes

  Rating 
- 2.5 rounded up to 3


★Review★

This was not as good as I wanted it to be. It felt like the author was trying to re create Chocolate lovers.

Gavin and Charlotte are Claire and Carter.

Tyler is Drew.

They even introduced a cheeky little 5 year old boy to replace child Gavin.

Also, I got really annoyed, that there is apparently only 3 years between Gavin and Charlotte, yet Gavin had a 5 year birthday in the Chocolate Lovers series, before Liz (Charlotte's Mom) had even become pregnant.

So apparently, Gavin is 25, making Charlotte 22, yet in this very book it states her sister Molly is 19, and there is 5 years between Charlotte and her sister.


Gavin's sister may well have never existed for all the mention she got in this book.

And it states in this book, it is 2013 referring to "Viagragate 2013" yet, in book 3.5 of Chocolate Lovers, when Gavin is 10, Liz and Charlotte refer to a Valentine's day of a few years before stating that Valentine's day they refer to is in 2009, making Hearts and Llamas also set in 2013 ish...

That sort of thing just bugs me, it is lazy writing, and felt like the author concentrated too much on the "humour" that in the end, was too try hard, and a re hash of Seduction and Snacks - which was great read. In the end, it felt too forced, and just not as funny. It had it's moments, but also lacked the romantic feel that Seduction and Snacks had, that actually made me care about the main couple. Charlotte's pov comes to late in this book, for me to get a real feel for her as a character, or have any connection to her at all.

A 2.5 rounded up to 3 stars.

Shavonne Briggs 

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.