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Great investment. My daughter is 12 and she loves this series.


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Cupcake Rachel Cohn Books Reviews

Meet CC. A self-absorbed, young...well, I wouldn't say lady...but at least knows what she wants.
After breaking up with Shrimp and letting him `escape' to New Zealand with his parents, CC moves from San Francisco to New York to start a new exciting life on her own.
Except that right away things go wrong (she falls down the stairs and breaks her leg, leaving her stuck in her brother's apartment - no elevator - until her it is healed).
Her brother has better things to do than to listen to her whining. He's got a cupcake business that, after his breakup with Aaron, he's running on his own. So she grabs some binoculars and explores the neighborhood.

CC sort of promised that she would go to culinary school, but since she doesn't feel like doing so, she instead takes a job as a barista at Johnny's L U _ C H _ O N E _ T E (in a later chapter the letters get fixed) and helps her brother out with the frosting when he's making cupcakes.

She has a few one-night-stands and a fling with Luis.
But is she really over Shrimp or does she want him back? That's what she has to decide when he suddenly shows up, New Zealand tan and all.
And will the new Buddhist Shrimp be ready for what she decides? At the moment, all Shrimp seemingly wants to do is draw and surf.

Cyd is overconfident, definitely acts first and thinks later, and although she thinks differently - she is not a grown-up yet, but still quite immature. Her parents don't know what's good for her, and are merely annoying. She takes pride in getting drunk. If she doesn't feel like doing something, she just doesn't do it. The problem of having unprotected sex and not wanting another abortion is easily fixed with a morning-after pill.
She's reminiscing with her friend (one of many pregnant characters in the book) about what happened to them that made them no longer such rebels. She's on her way to maturity, but she's definitely not there yet.

This is a very fast-paced book, jumping quickly from one situation or thought to the next.
I didn't read the first two books in the series, but I think that only one important part of background information was missing. Namely why lisBETH is spelled in such an odd manner.
Besides lisBETH, there are other interesting style elements in the book as well, though at times it feels like the author is trying little too hard to be unique. (I skipped the chapter that was written almost like a movie script.)
Shrimp's Haiku (spell checked by Danny, because Shrimp is severely dyslexic) and the author `trying to be hip' (for lack of a hipper term) become a bit annoying at times, but I guess that's what teenagers will like most about it.

As someone who doesn't drink coffee, I didn't really get CC's obsession with `the search for the perfect cappuccino'. I also found the book a bit too long. I went from being quite enthusiastic about it and speeding through the chapters, to getting stuck at about three-fourth of the way through, thinking "I really have to finish this". But I'm glad I stuck with it, because it got better again in the end.

Overall this is a fun, very fast-paced, read that's perfect for summer holidays on the beach (or any other occasion where short chapters like this are a plus). You can easily pick the book up and start where you left off, even after weeks have passed.
After graduating from high school and reluctantly breaking things off with her long-term boyfriend Shrimp, spirited, sassy Cyd Charisse (call her CC) is ready to move on - or at least pretend that she is. Though she loves her family and her home in San Francisco, CC can't wait to live it up in New York with her fantastic older half-brother Danny. She just knows life in the city will be great. After all, what could be better to distract her from Shrimp-missage than the larger-than-life Big Apple?

Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men . . . and women named after famous dancers. While walking down multiple flights of steps, CC breaks her leg in three places. (No one ever said she had the grace of her namesake.) Being cooped up in Danny's apartment is not exactly what she had in mind. Luckily, her leg heals more quickly than her heart.

CC knows the value of a good friend, and she stays in touch with her old buds - like Autumn, who is attending college in New York - as she makes new ones - like Max, a cranky yet lovable middle-aged neighbor, and his cat. She keeps in touch with her mother, who both aggravates and oddly inspires her, and her half-sister lisBETH, who tends to simply aggravate her. Her bio-dad is still less of a presence in her life than her stepfather, but everyone is at least making an effort to reconnect. Though she continues to wonder what Shrimp is doing in New Zealand, a chance encounter with an old fling serves as a brief distraction.

What about her career? CC gets enrolled in a cooking class, but stops going when it isn't what she thought it would be, preferring to sample Danny's latest batch of cupcakes than make her own. While on the search for the perfect cappuccino CC stumbles upon the L U _ C H _ O N E _ T E, an old-fashioned-looking dinner run by a Goth-punk boy. In a matter of minutes, she has a new job and an unexpected ally.

Just when things are starting to look up, a blast from the past tears open that hole in her heart and makes CC re-evaluate her priorities and her life.

Author Rachel Cohn has created a unique and memorable character in Cyd Charisse. The girl readers know and love from the previous books has grown up before their eyes. CC thinks she is more independent than ever, yet becomes aware of her sometimes co-dependency on Shrimp and others. It is this kind of acknowledgment that shows her maturity, yet lack thereof. Though CC is constantly searching for freedom from her family, but not quite ready to be wholly on her own. Young adults and older teens who have gone through or are currently going through that same awkward period will definitely relate to her in more ways than one.

Readers first met CC in the book Gingerbread, then reunited with her in the follow-up novel Shrimp. Cupcake is the third and final book in the Cyd Charisse cycle. Due to CC's increased introspection and consideration, it is also the best. CC is older, wiser, and sassier. She's finally become comfortable in her own skin, and Cohn has given her a delicious send-off. Cupcake is a treat which teens and adults alike should indulge in immediately!
After graduating high school, teenage hellion Cyd Charisse, follows her dream to New York City where she shares an apartment with her gay half brother Danny. Danny is single after having broken up with his lifetime soulmate, and CC is separated from her surfer boyfriend who has followed his own dream to New Zealand in search of the perfect wave. Danny remains friends with his ex-lover, but CC and Shrimp have agreed to make a clean break. No correspondence. Not even a postcard.

Before CC can begin stage one of her new adult life, she must find the city's finest caffeine. Surprisingly this is not an easy task, but how can a girl stay on course without her daily espresso jolt?

Having been in the city for less than a week, CC crashes down the stairs as she leaves her fifth floor apartment, fracturing her leg in three places. This puts a temporary end to her quest for the perfect cup and begins her slacker existence of watching movies, sleeping, and eating while daydreaming that Shrimp is there and is not on the opposite side of the world. The movie Rear Window provides inspiration for her own neighbor-watching through her bedroom window.

The adult CC is the same sexy, charismatic, over-the-top personality she has been in the earlier novels. She makes adult choices and sometimes she backslides into hellion territory, but watching her grow to young adulthood is fun.
this book is a great summer read and it shows that no one is perfect... and you should embrace it
This was by far the best of the three books. CC has grown up and is starting a new life in New York City. By the end of the book I was upset that it was over.
Great investment. My daughter is 12 and she loves this series.