Like Water for Chocolate

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Summary: HEARTACHES AND STRONG EMOTIONAL FEELINGS
Review: LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE was about a woman, Tita, who faced many challenges and struggles from childhood through adult life. Overall, we all liked the novel because it is related to real life situations. For example daily life relationship between parents and teenager life stituations.

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Summary: Metaphors and similes compose this book
Review: I rate this book out of five, a four. The book compels a high density of rising and falling emotions. Many similes and metaphors explain these emotions while comparing them to food or different objects refering to how they feel. The book made me feel interested as each chapter or month passed. I gave it a five, but then changed my mind and gave it a four. The ending didn't tell me anything. I felt the author could've come up with something else besides the two main characters dying and us finding out who the narrator was.

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Summary: This book is really good!
Review: I think "Like Water for Chocolate" is a great book especially those who love to cook.Not only is this a great story but also there are plenty of recipes too.It is a love story with many events of magical realism.The main characters are Tita and Pedro who stuggle to show their love.The magical events really enhance this story.Also, the use of metaphors and similes makes it easy understand this rather complex plot.Once again,this is a great book and is a must read.

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Summary: Wonderful, emotional, and very sexy
Review: Like Water for Chocolate was a wonderfull written book that is full of adventure, great recipes, and a lot of emotion. I thought it was romantic how Pedro and Tita would steal kisses or make love in the "dark room." It was just unfortunate that it took them over 30 years to finally have that one great moment. If you want to read a good book that will make you remember that there is a Mr. Right and he is out there waiting for you, then read Like Water For Chocolate.

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Summary: Creative piece of writing, but even all the cooking and...
Review: ...underlying "erotic" motives could not keep me interested throughout the whole book. I value author's creative writing style and I value this book as a good piece of magical realism, but....It lacks telling a truly interesting story. It is only interesting, if you want to know something about Mexican household life, told, again, from a MAGICAL perspective; otherwise, there is nothing "magical" about this book, otherwise, it is just that: a "recipe book in monthly installments". Plus, endless cooking and recipes just irritated my stomach, so I did not find it romantic at all (as it is supposed to be). Then, again, TASTES DIFFER (no pan intended), but MAKE SURE that you either HAVE A FULL FRIDGE or that you are (luckily) skinny. FOR THOSE READERS, WHO DO NEED TO lose some weight: first, finish reading this book and then, and ONLY THEN, go on a diet, to save yourselves double effort!

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Summary: Kinda weird, but totally cool.
Review: This was a great book. I read it in English, but now I think I'm going to try it in Spanish, because everyone says you always lose things in the translation, and I love this book, so reading it again slightly different would be just as awesome. The love story was so passionate, it was almost incomprehensible. And the way Ms. Esquivel came up with so many odd, new scenes and actions, ideas, made the book incrediblly interesting. It definitely stuck out beyond all the others. And the monthly recipes actually turned out to be very tasty, I tried onewith much success! I would definitely reccommed this book to anyone that has or wants to truly fall in love, or to anyone that likes things that are a bit out of the ordinary.

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Summary: Failed on Every Count
Review: I think this novel failed on every count. First, the characters were cardboard and not at all developed. Second, the story was TOLD rather than dramtized in scenes. Third, the characters were weak and ineffectual. None of them was striving toward something. Each just accepted his or her lot in life and refused to do a thing to try to change it. Fourth, while I didn't mind the recipes and the symbolism of the cooking, I did mind the way the narrative was interrupted to insert silly instructions for made-up concoctions of food. All in all a dumb book that violated every principal of good writing.

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Summary: A romance novel
Review: If you are interested in a novel full of romance, cookbook and a home remedy handbook then " Like Water For Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel should be the one. I give this novel a score of 5 because it was a simply wonderful and excellent novel. What this novel was all about was that Tita who is the main character couldn't get married because of a Mexican family tradition which was to take care of her mother until she died. Can you imagine that? Because of that tradition Tita suffered a lot. Tita felled in love with this guy named Pedro and their love was forbidden. This novel was simply wonderful and excellent because at the same time of the whole tragedy of Tita and Pedro couldn't live their love together it included a Mexican cookbook and a home remedy handbook. Its context was easy to read and it's content it was very detailed and it made it easier to understand more of what's happening. I really enjoyed reading this novel because it was full of romance, suspense and I would recommend this novel to anyone that enjoys reading romantic novels or wants to know how old fashion families' traditions were.

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Summary: A Love Triangle
Review: Set in turn of the century Mexico, Like water For Chocolate is a romantic love story about a family with major issues and ridiculous traditions that would be torturing to live through. Tita is the youngest daughter of three girls of who their mother, Mama Elena, watches and decides their every move. Mama Elena is extremely overbearing, forcing Tita to follow a tradition that destines her to care for her mother until the day she dies. Tita does not learn about this horrifying rule of the De La Garza's until her true love, Pedro, asks her mother for Tita's hand in marriage. Her heart is shattered when Mama Elena turns him down but offers Tita's sister, Rosaura, instead because she is allowed to lead her own life. Pedro accepts thinking the marriage will keep Tita close to him always. Tita spends all of her time in the kitchen where she releases her hidden feelings because in her family you can not live the way you want to or even speak your mind. Tita's true feelings come out in her food allowing every one to get a taste of her desires, sorrows, and joys. She has a gift for cooking, making every dish with delicate preparations. Tita is tortured by her sister's decision to marry her one true love and by her demanding mother. Will she ever be free from her mother's totalitarian rule or will she have to keep her undying love and happiness a secret for life?

This book was very moving and easy to get through. It comes with a recipe for every month; however, I thought the recipe's put the intensity of the book on hold for way too long. I found myself skipping over them, only interested in what was happening with Tita and her struggles for genuine happiness. The ending of the book was a bit dragged on and then suddenly it was over. Overall, this book was a great romantic, passionate, love story that shows how life offers many obstacles to experience and happiness is given to those who work hard for it.

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Summary: FOR THOSE WHO GET THE MUNCHIES BEFORE, AFTER, OR DURING SEX
Review: Have you ever experienced a romance ten times as bold as Jack's and Rose's from "Titanic" and a hundred times greater than Romeo's and Juliet's?--or starved for one? Better yet, have you ever wondered what it would be like to make wild passionate love on a bed of roast beef sandwiches with the works on Dutch crunch? Maybe not the latter. Nevertheless, you'd better run and grab a copy of Laura Esquivel's "Like Water for Chocolate," 12 roses, preferably red, 12 chestnuts, 2 teaspoons of butter, 2 teaspoons of cornstarch, 2 drops of attar of roses, 2 tablespoons of anise, 2 tablespoons of honey, 2 cloves of garlic, 6 quail, 1 pitaya, and 1 star-crossed lover to cure you of your craving, or it can result in irreversible damage. However, this instant love affair will only last until the end of March. So, you'd better refer to the book for next month's recipe. "Like Water for Chocolate" is provocative but makes for a good ale for your stomach, your loins, and sometimes, your head.