The Chocolate Cure

Roxanne Snopek




THE CHOCOLATE CURE is the fourth book in the Love At The Chocolate Shop series. This is an awesome series, by various authors, which can be read as standalones but if you are like me, you always have to read the series in order! I am really enjoying this series, giggling out loud as I go, and recommend it to everyone who loves fun, romantic stories that are hard to put down.


Realtor, Maddie Cash is having a crazy New Years Eve at her favorite hang out, where she announces to everyone, from the top of the bar, no more chocolate, men, meddling, or drinking!
She needs a life change and thinks this is it! Well, hang on tight! Maddie is going on a wild and crazy ride.


She decides to volunteer at the local hospital where her first patient is Mick Meyer. Mick is a bush pilot who is in Marietta to clean up family property that was just left to them by an estranged uncle. While there, he gets hurt while securing his plane and gets a concussion.
Maddie does help him in the hospital but finds she can't stay from Mick even though she has given up men. The situations these two find themselves in and the banter between the two of them is laugh out loud funny.


THE CHOCOLATE CURE is filled with lots of funny moments and lots of chocolate of course. There is plenty of romance and some very serious situations that effect both Maddie and Mick. The characters in this heart warming story are very real and relatable. I wanted to go and hang out with Maddie and Mick and chow down on those awesome chocolates they are always eating! Once I started reading THE CHOCOLATE CURE I had a hard time putting it down. Will Maddie and Mick just stay friends or will they be able to figure out how to take it to the next level? You have to read this awesome heartwarming tale to find out. I loved learning more and more about all the people in Marietta Montana and can't wait to catch up with them again.

At Midnight on New Year’s, Maddie Cash announces her New Year’s Resolutions to all at Grey’s Saloon. No Meddling, No Chocolate, No Men. It doesn’t take long for it to make it through town to her Mom, and Maddie realizes, after waking up with a hangover, that it is time to get serious about her life and her job as a realtor. Part of getting serious is volunteering at the hospital, where she is on duty when they bring in a victim of a plane accident, who just happens to be part of her sister’s fiance’s bachelor get away, so she is pressed into service to help him.
Mick Meyer ends up in the hospital in pretty bad shape. The angel in the ER is the only thing that keeps him going. Lucky for Maddie, he doesn’t remember her giving in to his begging for a kiss. When she is given an ulitmatum at work, the property Mick needs to sell just may help her keep her job. She just has to stick to her resolutions!
Maddie is a good person, despite what others perceive as her flightiness. She can’t stand the thought of someone buying a house that isn’t right for them. She helps Mick whenever he needs it. She fights hard to stick with her resolutions and deny her attraction to Mick and her love of chocolate.
This is book 4 in the Love at the Chocolate shop series and it is a truly sweet romantic read. I really like Maddie, she is a genuine person, flaws and all. Mick has been a wanderer, but finds himself at home with Maddie and in Marietta.

I am a big fan of Roxanne Snopek so when I came across her new book I jumped at the chance to read it. I have also bought it on kindle so I will be reviewing it soon.

Oh so sweet and cute! I remember reading Cinderella's Cowboy and seriously disliking Maddie and her sister. They were not nice at all to their stepsister and heroine of the book. At the time, I couldn't imagine a scenario in which I would actually like either of them. But Snopek has done a pretty good job rehabilitating Maddie and her mother here in The Chocolate Cure.

By turning Maddie into a sweet but misunderstood young woman, we see a gentler side of her. She still comes off as too impulsive, careless, and thoughtless. But that's better than malicious and nasty. At least here we see that she is becoming more self-aware.

Mick is kind of heartbreaking. We first meet him when he is at his lowest and seriously, that makes all the difference. Panicked, terrified, lashing out: Mick is in terrible need of help and Maddie gets drafted to be that help. It's comfort at first touch.

As Mick continues to need Maddie and Maddie continues to provide support, they grow closer and the bonds between them grow stronger. I really liked seeing Mick in need. Showing off his vulnerability against Maddie's caretaking was a stroke of genius because it really showed her to advantage. But Mick is more than just a guy who needs help. He has his own personality, even if it's somewhat masked by the concussion and post concussion syndrome.

So far, this is hands down the best book of the series.

This is book four in the series and there is a lot of background you need to guess at to fill in the gaps as you go along, a pet peeve of mine.

We are introduced to Maddie, who obviously has a reputation although for what isn't revealed until much later in the piece. After a wild New Years Eve night Maddie swears off meddling, men and most appallingly chocolate. Trying to improve her image, Maddie signs up for an attempt at being a hospital volunteer. This is where she meets Mick, who has gained himself a concussion after a minor plane accident. Cue insta-attraction. Against all the rules she shares a kiss with Mick which she assumes he will forget all about. Although ultimately being a volunteer didn't work out, Maddie spends a great deal of time helping Mick recover from his injuries and Mick finds himself attracted to Maddie but she is strangely unobtainable. Thankfully this is a light fluffy romance and everything ends as it should.

This book failed to make me interested in reading any more in the series. It felt rushed in execution and didn't offer any hometown 'feels' that one would expect from a series of this sort. Although the main character, it never felt like Maddie was fleshed out enough and she felt very two dimensional.

This was just so-so for me.

Maddie decides to make a few New years resolutions to give up Men, No Meddling and no Chocolate.
These resolutions are made whilst she is very drunk in the pub on New Years Eve.

Maddie quickly regrets her resolutions as living in a small town means everyone knows everyone which means they are just watching and waiting to see if she fails.

She meets Mick a Pilot.
Unfortunately things take a bad turn when he crashes he's plane and ends up in hospital.
Maddie soon nurses Mick back to health and the two begin to fall in love! Breaking just one of her resolutions.

I didn't really enjoy reading this book I found it slow to get into the storyline and for the characters to develop.
I feel this may of been because I hadn't read the previous books and no way reflects the Author.

I was looking forward to reading this book as I'm a chocoholic but I guess it wasn't quiet what I was expecting.

Overall a nice read but not for me.

**Caution do not read this book without chocolate by your side.**

First of all I enjoyed The Chocolate Cure. My problem was more with me than the book itself. Maddie Cash was a secondary character in Cinderella's Cowboy and I spent a lot of time trying to remember her. All I could remember was that I wasn't a fan of hers. But The Chocolate Cure finds her attempting to be more mature and less selfish.

In the past, Maddie was more of the party girl/arm candy type but now she wants to change her ways. She wants to be taken seriously and that means having a job, living on her own, and taking care of herself. Maddie has even made New Year's resolutions to give up meddling, men, and chocolate. Let's be honest here, her meddling isn't really meddling. Maddie is a realtor with a conscience and has a tendency to say if a house isn't right for a client. As far as men….Yes she's probably gone through half the population of Marietta, Montana. But a girl has to kiss a few hundred frogs, before she finds her prince. Chocolate….Okay, I have no idea what she was thinking.

Maddie’s good deeds lead her to volunteer at the local hospital. On her first day, she ends up being assigned Mick Meyer, a friend of her future brother-in-law. Mick has just had an accident involving his Cessna and is pretty beat up. Turns out he has a concussion, among other problems. But there's something about Maddie that eases his pain. With no family around, Maddie feels as if she has to stick around, keep him company, and watch over him. The two become attracted to each other. But Maddy refuses to give in to her attraction because she wants to be a new person.

A lot of the book was spent on Mick and dealing with the aftermath of his accident. But this allows you to see what a kindhearted and caring person Maddie is. Roxanne Snopek has written a nice, sweet (no pun intended) romance. My biggest complaint is that there isn’t an epilogue to truly wrap up the story.

A delightful romance with the thread of chocolate in the story line. What more could a woman want?

Maddie Cash makes the public decry that she is giving up chocolate, men and meddling for the new year. Only she might have been a little bit 'lit' when making the proclamation.

It isn't long before she feels herself unable to live up to these resolutions. Mick Meyer, a hunky bush pilot who was visiting the area and ends up in the hospital, is all to blame. Being with him has her reconsidering all those resolutions.

All the while, she's also trying to keep her spot at the local real estate agency. After all, she's looking out for her client's best interests instead of the quick sale!

Definitely a fun, light read.

The Chocolate Cure by Roxanne Snopek is book number four in the Love at the Chocolate Shop series. This is Maddie Cash and bush pilot Mick Meyer's story. I thoroughly enjoyed Maddie and Mick’s story! Their romance was a fun romance to read. I loved the humor, emotional aspects, and the sweet romance. A great read that left me still thinking about their story. Loved it! I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.

A bit of a wild child, Maddie Cash begins the new year with some serious resolutions. She has to if she wants to avoid making a fool of herself again like she did on New Year's night. So no more chocolate, alcohol or guys for her. She's going to turn over a new leaf and volunteering at the hospital might possibly just what she needs. Little does she know that one seriously concussed bush pilot is going to push her to break every single one of those resolutions.

Mick Meyer is bruised, battered and grounded. Never on the round long enough to grow roots, the man with the soul of an eagle must lay low for a while. Lucky for him Maddie is at hand to keep him company and she's the right person to help him unload the property he recently inherited. But the more Maddie is around him, the more he wants to keep her around. In fact, he wants to stick around a lot longer too.

Every girl wants to be loved. Can she trust what she feels, what he says he feels for her is real? Considering his injury is it worth the risk, when it could all be her imagination? Chocolate is the cure for everything!

This is a great book; this is the fourth book in the Love at the Chocolate Shop series written by Roxanne Snopek. New Year’s resolutions are great. Announcing them in a crowded bar, with a chocolate martini in her hand? Not Maddie Cash’s finest moment. It’s time this new realtor got serious about her life and this time, she means it. But when hospital volunteering lands her at the bedside of bruised and battered Mick Meyer, who has no knowledge of Maddie’s reputation – and no memory of the kiss he begged from her during that long, pain-filled night, her best-laid plans are put in jeopardy. It’s not just his sweet tooth that’s tempting her. This is a great book with a wonderful story and well developed characters. This book will keep you reading long into the night. If you are looking for a great book, then you need to read this book. I am looking forward to reading the next book by this great author. I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader’s copy of this book. The free book held no determination on my personal review.

4 stars

I really enjoyed The Chocolate Cure by Roxanne Snopek.

I loved watching the relationship between Maddie and Mick unfold, they made me laugh, swoon and kept me entertained all throughout the book. They were truly perfect for each other.

The Chocolate Cure is a well written, sweet, fun read and I highly recommend it.

A great addition to the Love at the Chocolate Shop series, each book can be read as a standalone.

*Thank you to Tule Publishing via Netgalley for the advance copy.*

Maddie made a New Year’s Resolution-no chocolate, no meddling, no men! Maddie’s life is a bit complicated-announcing her resolutions in a pub can never be a good idea and, but also she might lose her job, if she doesn’t reach her boss’s demands. She’s is a kind-hearted woman and that’s what makes the job difficult for her sometimes.

Mick had a plane accident and is in the hospital with a concussion. His first night is kind of a blur, he remembers an angelic woman, but that’s about all he can recall at first. The night of the accident Maddie was volunteering in the ER and since then they became friends, but surely there was an attraction between them, if they wanted to admit it or not. As Maddie is helping Mick recover, can they find their way to love?

It was a fun and sweet story with great characters. I liked how the story progressed and also the chocolate in the story. I really enjoyed reading it and can’t wait to read the next installments.

I adored The Chocolate Cure for several reasons, but mainly because I recognized Maddie in so many people I know, and even a bit in myself. For about 90% of the human population feeling like we don’t fit the job, or that we aren’t good enough, or that we’re missing something but we can’t quite describe what that is… brings us to exactly what Maddie is experiencing. She’s determined to “grow up” but in her self imposed change myself mode she’s also not seeing that she can “grow up” but she doesn’t have to leave people behind or… be perfect. She simply has to be herself, the rest will fall into place.

Maddie is a real estate agent who really isn’t cut out for that throat slashing profession. She’d rather find the perfect house for a young couple that they can truly afford or keep the elderly couple in the home they’ve lived their entire life in with some outside help instead of selling it. So, she’s not meeting her commissions or sales quota and that’s causing some big troubles back at the office. She has a month to turn her productivity around or… well, there’s the door.

With that overshadowing her New Year’s Eve celebrations, added to the fact that most of her friends are with their own families this holiday, Maddie enjoys herself at Grey’s Saloon, drinks a bit too much and makes a silly resolution from her spot on the top of the bar… so not cool. No chocolate. No meddling. No men. *cough* What in the world has she gotten herself into?

A few days into her “new life” she’s volunteering at the hospital when a friend of her step-sister’s fiance comes into the ER with some major injuries. Mick is a pilot and had been at his newly inherited property with Chad and friends doing the bachelor stag thing when he’d decided to move his plane – without buckling himself in and took a nasty fall when the tire hit a large rock. Now he has several injuries not counting a mild concussion. Maddie happened to be the one person available to stay with him and watch over him as he was worked on. During that one night Mick was at his most vulnerable – sick, injured and a bit out of it. But he did remember one thing – Maddie and her magic healing touch.

The Chocolate Cure allows this couple to see each other with all their vulnerabilities laid bare, eventually. To see, to feel and to begin to care about someone aside from themselves. Maddie and Mick are a believable, realistic couple in the process of falling in love. They’ve just found someone who they truly love and discover that they are loved in return. And that is a precious moment for any couple. Their happy ever after is implied from the rest of the story… but it’s truly there, simply not wrapped up in a wedding or an engagement ring. I have no doubt that Mick and Maddie will continue their romance to it’s natural conclusion – perhaps we’ll run into them again for a bit during the rest of this series.

I would highly recommend this story, and this series, to any Romance reader. A clean romance that gives us hope and reality all wrapped up in two people who belong together. Yeah, you’re going to want to pick this one up – it’s well worth your time.

*I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley. That does not change what I think of this story. It is my choice to leave a review giving my personal opinion about this story.*

Something about this felt off from the beginning - I'm not sure it was just the writing and editing or something else that I can't properly articulate. Maddie and Mick both felt undeveloped in their motivations and their attraction to each other - it seemed more like a convenience factor and right place/right time than anything deeper or meaningful. Maddie also drove me a bit bonkers in that she was just all over the place and her "new self" and resolutions seemed silly and unformed. Mick was just odd - even at the end, I didn't feel like I even knew who he was or what he wanted. I liked the glimpses into Marietta (the site of one of my favorite series, Carrigans of Circle C) but this book didn't live up to the other I read in this series.

The Chocolate Cure came out last week on January 4, 2017, and you can purchase HERE. I LOVED the first book in this series, Melt My Heart, Cowboy, and am definitely still going to read books 2 and 3!

He'd never had a head injury before. He'd expected the nausea, the dizziness, the confusion. He hadn't expected infatuation. He wanted to kiss that little spot where her throat ticked and bobbed. Was she feeling it too?

This New Year’s while surrounded by people in a crowded bar Maddie Cash was still feeling somewhat alone. Maddie vows to have fun anyway that night which leads to one drink after another and a humiliating New Year kiss at midnight with her boss’s son and a public announcement to give up men and chocolate.

After the humiliating night Maddie decides she needs to do some growing up and get her life in order. Maddie finds herself volunteering at the hospital when Mick Meyer is brought in with some injuries after a plane crash and somehow Maddie ends up sitting with Mick while it’s determined if his head trauma is serious. While on pain meds Mick begs Maddie for a kiss which she thinks he will soon forget when they do go their separate ways but afterwards Maddie finds that Mick has a property he needs sold and Maddie is desperate to save her reality job.

The Chocolate Cure is the fourth book in the Love at the Chocolate Shop series set in the lovely small town of Marietta, MT that has been featured in quite a few different series. The Chocolate Cure can easily be read as a standalone novel but there are mentions of previous characters and places from other books from this town. In this particular book Maddie is a frequent customer of Copper Mountain Chocolates which is the center of the Love at the Chocolate Shop series.

For the most part this was a completely enjoyable little romance read as with most of those based in Marietta. I will say I did think a bit of the hospital scenes were a bit unrealistic to me but that really didn’t hurt my liking the couple this book is about. It was only little things like Mick walking out on his own, I’ve never known a hospital that didn’t insist a patient stay in a wheelchair when discharged. And Maddie not wearing gloves, I would think they would have taken her away from the patients before that would ever happen. Small details that seemed off but thankfully aren’t a huge part to the story so in the end I still really liked this one.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

After a New Year’s resolution not to eat chocolate, not to meddle, and not to hook up with any more men, Maddie Cash finds out how difficult it will be to keep the resolutions—especially in a small town, where everyone knows everyone’s business and when the resolutions are made in the town’s most public bar on New Year’s Eve (when you are without a date and are fighting off the men you have no interest in who keep pestering you). Shortly after making the New Year’s resolutions, Maddie encounters a bush pilot, injured in a freak accident, while volunteering at the local hospital. Neither Maddie nor the bush pilot, Mick Meyer, can fight the attraction that starts to grow between them from the first meeting. As Mick convalesces, Maddie is there to help and encourage him every step of the way, all the while giving him some of the luscious chocolates from the town concession her best friend owns and operates. Only time will tell if their growing attraction, which is, by the way, in full view of the small town’s eyes and ears, continues and where it leads. At the same time, Maddie, a real estate agent, is trying desperately to keep her real estate job, mostly because she has difficulty selling houses to customers, who really do not fit in with the current house they have her showing them.

The author has written a good romance. The story flows well. The characters are well developed and true to life. The life depicted in a small town is also realistic. Maddie and Mick make a lovable couple. In fact, I found the character Maddie well worth admiration. She is down-to-earth, has some faults but many more good points—even her shortcomings are diminished routinely by her good deeds. Mick came across as the perfect match for her: young, hunky but not arrogant, easy to relate to, open and as lovable as Maddie. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this couple meet, grow in their relationship and finally realize its importance. The setting also was perfect for this couple’s storybook romance. Finally, it was nice to have the couple meet in a bit different way than couples meet in other romances. I appreciated that Maddie had not suddenly moved to a small town after a disastrous personal event (like a divorce or break-up) and did not somehow get hired, buy or inherit an inn/B&B. I think this is a great book to curl up with on a cold or snowy afternoon or weekend. After reading this book, I will seek out others by the author and in the series. I received this form NetGalley to read and review.

Oh wow! Roxanne Snopek you made me cry! The Chocolate Cure. There is a real talent to taking an apparently ordinary person and making their story matter, and with Maddie Roxanne Snopek has succeeded in doing just that. This story takes two ordinary people and makes their story matter and I loved that. Of course there was chocolate too, and what's not to love about chocolate. This whole story was just lovely.