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Summary: An amazing - life affecting journey!
Review: It frustrates me that readers expect all works of a particular author to follow the same path. I greatly appreciated 'Like Water For Chocolate', I recommended it to everyone I know. The story was amazing. But, 'The Law of Love' affected me in a more profound manner. Granted it is not a plausible plot - but me must remind ourselves that this is a work of fiction. I was not so moved by the characters as by what was said. If you truly read the novel you will understand 'The Law of Love'. When Azucena's Guardian Angel, Anacreonte, spoke to her through her neighbor, Cuquita, it had a profound affect on me. One page made the whole novel worthwhile! Read this book and I mean TRULY read it!
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Summary: Crap... a loser compared to Like Water For Chocolate.....
Review: What unbelievable garbage.... the only salvagable part was the CD that came with the wasted paper that is a so called book.... so disappointing after reading the great first book by her... Like Water For Chocolate.... 0 stars
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Summary: Do not leave shore with this book.
Review: Unlike her previous bestseller "Like Water for Chocolate", L. E.'s new book does not make the reader get in touch with the characters, quite possibly because she explores them very little or, which is my choice, because the characters do not have anything to explore into. The book is a bit entertaining, though not interesting. Do not leave shore with this book; it is not what will help you pass the time if you're stuck in a deserted island
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Summary: Like Water for Chocolate meets Richd. Condon's Money is Love
Review: A great book, if a little bumpy in places. Water/Chocolate looked at the fantasy of the effect of the cook's mindset on the effect that food has on the eaters. Money is Love explores what happens when the entire set of gods--Judeo/Christian, Greeks, Romans, and the baddies, Lucifer, Beelzebub and that bunch--meet to figure out what the big deal is about Money. Everyone on earth seems to be going bananas to get it, they do strange things with it when they do get it, etc. In Money/Love, N'zuriel ("Little Yaweh") leads the convention to figure it all out. In Law of Love, we find that 14000 reincarnations determine peoples' suitabilties for governing, loving, hating. Hard to believe that Esquivel hasn't read and admired Condon. But the work isn't derivative: it's wonderfully original and refreshing. And it's almost as funny as Condon's, a very big plus!
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Summary: Nowhere close to LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE
Review: I loved LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE, but THE LAW OF LOVE was terrible. The storyline was very unbelievable. The author seemed to be going for a mix of sci-fi and romance and failing at both. It is the only book that i have stopped reading in the middle and thrown out.
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Summary: Loved the dances!
Review: I enjoyed the book, but I loved the dance songs sung by Liliana Felipe. I can't find them anywhere, though.
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Summary: Unlike any other . . .
Review: A book that combines astro-analysis and soul migration, time travel and the basic human need for love into an all encompassing novel about basic human morals and our search for connection to another human being! Shakespeare had he been born into 20th Century Mexico. Excellent!!!
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Summary: What happened to the poetic prose?
Review: I could hardly wait to get this book home! I am such a fan of "Like Water for Chocolate." I even drove 120 miles one way to see the film. This book, however, isn't worth the paper it's printed on. The CD was a good idea, but much of the music didn't really match the mood of the story-line...whatver THAT was. LOVED "Like Water for Chocolate." HATED this drivel!
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Summary: Very dissapointing
Review: I recieved this book as a gift and thought the idea of it including a CD to be played whilst reading the various chapters of the book to be a great idea. The book itself was so boring and long-winded that I found it a strain to finish. Like Water for Chocolate however I found to be a really great read.
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Summary: The author doesn't seem to care, why should we?
Review: This book should never have hit the press. It reads like a work in process that needs at least two more revisions. The last 25 pages or so read like she threw it together in an afternoon just to get the darn thing finished. The story is sloppy -- there are problems with characters leaping to conclusions and consequences in a single bound. Esquivel makes the classic mistake of any Creative Writing 101 student -- she tells us instead of shows us. We have to suffer through pages of boring narative just to get the point. In short, if the author can't bother working on the story line, why should we bother reading it? Laura Esquivel has the ability to be a wonderful writer, but you'd never know it from this book.
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