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If this doesn't make you want to eat a cupcake, cuddled up under a warm blanket on a cold winters night with a mug of hot chocolate than I don't know what will. This book is so well crafted from the sweet winter romance, to the icy back drop from the winter season in the small town of Watonka, NY to the ice skating and ice hockey subplots and the deliciously described cupcakes. There's this perfect blend of romance, heart ached, friendship, sports, baking and realistic life lesson woven into this story. I adored everything about this well written, real life story line.

It's not hard to sympathize with Hudson. She's a character who's on the brink of trying to find her place in the world. She has dreams she wants to accomplish and yet she feels trapped in her mom's diner and the small town they're living in. She juggles working long hours in her mother's diner, school work, being with her friends, ice skating and doing everything she can for her mom, while putting her own social life on hold and own dreams and aspirations on hold. I honestly admired her for all the extra responsibility she takes on, even though at times I grew really frustrated with the way her mother handled things, even though I also understand the predicament her mom was in. The title is a perfect fit for this story, because Sarah does such a great job at writing about those bitter and sweet moments we all experience in life.

The relationships that are written in this story are so realistic and believable. I really enjoyed getting to know the different characters. Like Hudson, they all have their strengths and weaknesses. They'll flawed in some way, but do the best they can given the situations that come their way. There's times they make good choices and times not the best ones, but through it all they continue to cling to the hopes and dreams they each have. I respect any character who does that, especially Hudson who through a course of choices learns to let go of her past and cling on to her future.

One of my favorite aspects of this story is the role ice skating and the Wolves high school ice hockey team play in it. They provide moments of humor, romance and important lessons in friendship and self discovery for Hudson. I really enjoyed the authentic teenage romance in this story. Who wouldn't enjoy having two hot ice hockey players fighting for your attention? While I adore both Josh and Will, Josh won me over the moment he set his skates on the frozen pond. You don't need to know a lot about ice hockey or ice skating to understand the lingo that's discussed with these sports. Sarah does such a suburb job at getting to the heart and art of each of these sports, and the big role they play in both Hudson's and her small town's life.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I liked the feel of the story, the setting and the characters I felt like I got to know. It's a story who's small town feel really came to life for me, as Sarah drove home the importance of sacrifices family and friends make for each other. Not to mention it also left me craving one of Hudson's cupcakes. I love that under each chapter heading is a brief description of one of Hudson's well known cupcakes. I'm a sucker for those little creative attentions to details in books like that. I highly recommend picking this book up. Now that I've read one of Sarah's book, I'm looking forward to reading many more. There is very mild language, a scene with underage drinking and a few well written kissy scenes.

* On a side note, I LOVE the cover and title change that Simon & Schuster did. The ARC has a completely different title and cover from the published book. The new cover and title matches the story perfectly, and it adds that wintery feel the book has.


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Bittersweet Sarah Ockler Books Reviews

3.5 stars, would have been 4 stars but the technical figure skating mistakes were just too much.

Bittersweet takes us into the life of Hudson Avery, former figure skater and current Cupcake Queen. She lives in a small town and is bursting to get out and explore the world. But what is she willing to sacrifice and who is she willing to push out of her life to make her dreams come true? And are they really her dreams or is she feeling nostalgic for her seemingly perfect past?

My first Sarah Ockler book! I have Twenty Boy Summer on my bookshelf but haven't read it and after reading Bittersweet, I bought Fixing Delilah for my kindle. I love Sarah's writing style. It was like the words came off the pages and enveloped me. And oh my goodness, the description of the cupcakes at the beginning of each chapter made me crave cupcakes like no other!

Now on to the actual book part! ) I really really enjoyed getting to know Hudson. She was a little selfish, but hey, what 16 year old girl isn't? Am I right? There were times when I wanted to wring her neck and other times when I just felt so bad for her and wanted to tell everyone else to JUST BACK OFF and let her be a teenager! I couldn't imagine trying to juggle all of the things that she does. There's a bit of a love triangle, but I was okay with it. Mainly because I could see how it was a natural part of the plot. It didn't feel forced and worked well.

Now. I will say that I had one huge huge huge huge huge problem with the book. The technical aspect of the figure skating was just so wrong. Soooo wrong. Ms. Ockler states in her Acknowledgement that there were probably some technical mistakes and she apologizes for them but still. To an untrained eye, I'm sure that the mistakes would have gone unnoticed - ignorance is bliss and all that jazz - but for this former figure skater (me), there were mistakes that I just could not believe! Some of the things mentioned are open for interpretation for instance, what order a skater would put her jumps in her program (a triple/triple would almost always be first..rarely second), but others are just frankly impossible - a double axel/double lutz combination is not even physically possible - it can not be done! This paragraph makes me sound like I didn't enjoy the book, but the truth is even with its blatant blunders staring me in the face, I actually really liked the book as a whole. If it weren't for the technical mistakes, I would have easily given this book 4 stars.

What do you think? Am I being over-critical? I hope not.

Additional I just wanted to say that there were many, many things that Ms. Ockler got correct! I really liked that she gave Hudson a triple Flip combo. It's a hard combo but not impossible and it's gutsy (and was my favorite jump when I was a skater). I also liked the way that she described the way it felt to be on the ice. She got it spot on and was probably one of my favorite aspects of the book. It made me want to get back out there because I have truly missed it! And I was also totally loving the hockey boy-figure skater girl thing. It's so true. )
I'm a huge Sarah Ockler fangirl, and while Bittersweet wasn't as heartwrenching as her previous books, it was adorable and moving and a lot of fun.

As someone who has never seen snow before, reading a book about ice skating and winter and snow and all of that fun wintery stuff was so awesome. I wanted to be in Watonka with Hudson and Bug and drinking hot chocolate and eating the weirdest yet most delicious sounding cupcakes ever.

As for the characters in Bittersweet, I loved Hudson, but she did drive me crazy at some points. She would not make up her mind! Of course, you know, not that I'm able to make up my mind ever, but I did want to shake her and give her a little push in the right directions. But I loved her character growth throughout the book. I thought it was very well done and I was very happy with her decisions at the end.

And the boy thing. There were a lot of awesome boys in this book, from the hockey team to Josh and Will, but my favourite was Bug. He was the cutest, most awesome little brother ever. He had the greatest quirks and I just wanted to make him my little brother. He rocked. The secondary characters in Bittersweet were all pretty amazing and three dimensional, but he was absolutely my favourite.

And I have to make a quick mention of the chapter headings - they are CUPCAKE RECIPES. I seriously need to try to make every single one.

Overall, I loved Bittersweet so much. There's romance and cupcakes and ice skating and it told a really great and moving story about family struggling in their own ways. If you love contemporaries, I definitely recommend Bittersweet by Sarah Ockler.
If this doesn't make you want to eat a cupcake, cuddled up under a warm blanket on a cold winters night with a mug of hot chocolate than I don't know what will. This book is so well crafted from the sweet winter romance, to the icy back drop from the winter season in the small town of Watonka, NY to the ice skating and ice hockey subplots and the deliciously described cupcakes. There's this perfect blend of romance, heart ached, friendship, sports, baking and realistic life lesson woven into this story. I adored everything about this well written, real life story line.

It's not hard to sympathize with Hudson. She's a character who's on the brink of trying to find her place in the world. She has dreams she wants to accomplish and yet she feels trapped in her mom's diner and the small town they're living in. She juggles working long hours in her mother's diner, school work, being with her friends, ice skating and doing everything she can for her mom, while putting her own social life on hold and own dreams and aspirations on hold. I honestly admired her for all the extra responsibility she takes on, even though at times I grew really frustrated with the way her mother handled things, even though I also understand the predicament her mom was in. The title is a perfect fit for this story, because Sarah does such a great job at writing about those bitter and sweet moments we all experience in life.

The relationships that are written in this story are so realistic and believable. I really enjoyed getting to know the different characters. Like Hudson, they all have their strengths and weaknesses. They'll flawed in some way, but do the best they can given the situations that come their way. There's times they make good choices and times not the best ones, but through it all they continue to cling to the hopes and dreams they each have. I respect any character who does that, especially Hudson who through a course of choices learns to let go of her past and cling on to her future.

One of my favorite aspects of this story is the role ice skating and the Wolves high school ice hockey team play in it. They provide moments of humor, romance and important lessons in friendship and self discovery for Hudson. I really enjoyed the authentic teenage romance in this story. Who wouldn't enjoy having two hot ice hockey players fighting for your attention? While I adore both Josh and Will, Josh won me over the moment he set his skates on the frozen pond. You don't need to know a lot about ice hockey or ice skating to understand the lingo that's discussed with these sports. Sarah does such a suburb job at getting to the heart and art of each of these sports, and the big role they play in both Hudson's and her small town's life.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I liked the feel of the story, the setting and the characters I felt like I got to know. It's a story who's small town feel really came to life for me, as Sarah drove home the importance of sacrifices family and friends make for each other. Not to mention it also left me craving one of Hudson's cupcakes. I love that under each chapter heading is a brief description of one of Hudson's well known cupcakes. I'm a sucker for those little creative attentions to details in books like that. I highly recommend picking this book up. Now that I've read one of Sarah's book, I'm looking forward to reading many more. There is very mild language, a scene with underage drinking and a few well written kissy scenes.

* On a side note, I LOVE the cover and title change that Simon & Schuster did. The ARC has a completely different title and cover from the published book. The new cover and title matches the story perfectly, and it adds that wintery feel the book has.