Book Details
Author:
Sarah Ockler
Format: Kindle
Edition
File
Size: 553
KB
Publisher: Simon Pulse January 3, 2012
Summary:
From the author of Twenty
Boy Summer, a teen pushes the limits
to follow her dreams—and learns there’s a fine line between bitter and sweet....Once
upon a time, Hudson knew exactly what her future looked like. Then a betrayal
changed her life and knocked her dreams to the ground. Now she’s a girl who
doesn’t believe in second chances, a girl who stays under the radar by baking
cupcakes at her mom’s diner and obsessing over what might have been.
So when things
start looking up and she has another shot at her dreams, Hudson is equal parts
hopeful and terrified. Of course, this is also the moment a cute, sweet guy
walks into her life—and starts serving up some seriously mixed signals. She’s
got a lot on her plate, and for a girl who’s been burned before, risking it all
is easier said than done.
It’s time for
Hudson to ask herself what she really wants, and how much she’s willing to
sacrifice to get it. Because in a place where opportunities are fleeting, she
knows this chance may very well be her last....
Review:
Rating: 5/5
Bittersweet is one of
the most delicious books I have ever read. It took me just a couple of hours to
finish this book on my Kindle. I was all wrapped up – drooling because the
chapter titles are sinfully to die for. It makes me crave for a bunch of
cupcakes with weird-sounding names.
Besides those amazing
chapter names that could tick your sense of taste and wish it out of the pages,
I also love the characters in this novel. Starting with Hudson, she started as
a soon-to-be-Olympic-champion-type figure skater, but something went wrong and
she turned her back away from it all – from an all-too-promising future. Now,
three years later, her life is filled with a lot of stuffs including skating,
baking cupcakes, waitressing at the diner, and taking care of her brother. So it’s
not really a surprise when she’s near emotional wreck with all of these stuff
fell into her lap. She has a lot of issue of things that fell apart along with
an unexpected betrayal by someone she loved. I wish I could be more sympathetic
to her, but most of the time, I’d like to strangle her more because of her
unwise decisions and bad moves. I love the growth of her character all throughout
the book. Her decision at the end of the story surprised me, it was unexpected,
but I was happy that she stood by it and didn’t regret anything.
She has an amazing
best friend, Dani who greatly complements her personality. There is a
wise-for-their-real-age brother who is just adorable and sweet.
And of course, who
could forget the hockey boys!!! Hudson is quite confused when it comes to the
opposite sex. The choices: real tough! It was a choice between the captain who
wants her, and then shows it and the co-captain who sends in signals but gets
on the phone a lot with another girl. I love the romance. I love the thing she
did with the hockey players. I’m glad Ockler didn’t overdo these hunks. They were
fascinating, funny, sweet and quite obnoxious (most jocks are).
Bittersweet is a fun,
a little bit emotional and complex. The setting – all those snow and hot
chocolates is just perfect and makes those who do not experience winter wish
for snow. Once again, Sarah Ockler made an amazing novel, that made me swoon
over the characters and over cupcakes.
Favorite Quotes
Everyone says that the internet is so
awesome because you can connect with people from all over the world, but I
think it’s the opposite. The internet doesn’t make it easier to connect with
anyone—it just makes it so you don’t really have to.
Being with Josh is like being touched
from the inside out. An unexpected blaze of sunshine on an otherwise bleak
winter day. Wrapping your fingers around a mug of hot chocolate after
walking home in that frigid lake-effect wind. A fire crackling softly beneath
your outstretched hands. The perfect combination of cupcake and icing, the kind
where you can’t quite identify all the secret ingredients, but you feel them
melting together on your tongue, and you know that for as long you live, this
will be the best thing you’ve ever tasted.
“It takes forty
muscles to frown, and only twelve to jam a cupcake in your mouth and get over
it.”
“Would 'sorry' have
made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a
thousand actions.”
ChuCha™
