Like Water for Chocolate

I got this book for my birthday last year from Skab my labs, and I cannot tell you how much patience was needed for me to not open the damn plastic wrap.

I have had this on my to read list ever since my uncle recommended this to me saying, “Sobrang ganda niya.”. Simple as that you when he describes a book like that, I would always expect it to be wonderful. He had suggested many fiction books that I liked and he is also the reason I am into reading, too much reading. And so when we saw this on Bookay Ukay that August, I cannot get it off my hands, and so Skab my labs got it for me. And that was the one of the best gifts he has given.

Enough of that and more of the book, because that's what you came here for, right.

I am telling you this one is worth all those wait! By the end of 2014, I was looking for a book that has a chef as a hero/heroin and this came nothing close to just a chef's story. It's just perfect! Tita is one amazing cook, it has details of all ingredients needed and how it is cooked, along with it comes the story of Tita's love, lost, sorrow and triumphs.

Characters were also stunningly alluring. Mama Elena sure kept the first half of the book entertaining, not that I like how she treats Tita but her treatment to her was compelling. And even after what happened to her. Just the thought of her made everyone fear her altogether!

Gertrudis was also one to like, the bad ass sister who did whatever the fuck she want and didn't care a bit of whatever fuck everyone would think of her. Rosaura was tolerable, but Pedro, you asshole, he really was, a few chapters in. An asshole, yes, but Tita really loved him and I get that part which was cool because the ending made it all just perfect.

And that ending! I freaking cried the the last fucking paragraph! As in, I enjoyed the book so much, I didn't want it to end! I didn't want to finish it actually, I didn't want to know what the ending was because I know I will never be over it! I mean the whole book was nourishing and enticing and you will get soaked up to it and and you feel that you're part of the world Laura Esquivel has made and you don't want to end it.

All in all it's like you wish the book didn't end because it's so beautiful you want to read it again. That's how amazing it is.

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