Chocolate Box Girls: Marshmallow Skye

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The next instalment in the addictive Chocolate Box Girls series and sequel to Cherry Crush, Marshmallow Skye, Summer's Dream and Coco Caramel. It doesn't seem like a year since I first met the Tanberry sisters in Cherry Crush because they're all very fresh in my mind. The five girls – four of them are called Tanberry and Cherry is their step-sister – are all just preteen or in their early teens, with Honey as the oldest and Coco as the youngest. Honey is still not coping with the fact that her father has left – and is now living in Australia – or with the arrival of Paddy and Cherry. On occasions she's not just difficult – she's dreadful.

You heard it here first… the next book in the Chocolate Box Girls series has had a title change and will now be called Marshmallow Skye! The new title fits the story much better, and is just as sweet and cool… so I am hoping you will like it just as much! Skye Tanberry was wonderful, rather mature and really sweet. I just instantly fell in love with her voice, her kindness, how devoted she was to her twin. She was addicted to history, something I loved – plus her fashion sense was awesome: history inspired! She was kind of a realist, but she was so supportive and caring. But poor Skye felt like she was living in Summer’s shadow, like she was second best and always would be. How wonderful she thought her twin was just ate away her confidence. She was sometimes jealous of Summer – I mean, she felt like the “shadow twin”, useless and dull compared to Summer. I felt so sorry for her. Because she wasn’t. She was wonderful. I loved Skye! Berita kematian Clara itu masih menjadi misteri hingga sekarang. Skye yang notabennya menyukai sejarah merasa tertantang untuk menyelidiki kisah Clara itu. Tetapi apa disangka, dengan hanya memakai salah satu barang milik Clara pada malam hari muncul lah mimpi2 aneh. Awalnya memang Skye takut, tetapi dia semakin penasaran dan tertantang untuk menemukan misteri kematian dan hilangnya Clara. Di waktu yang sama, Alfie yaitu teman sekelasnya mendekati Skye. Dikiranya Alfie menyukai Skye karena ia selalu menemani dan mendekatinya tetapi apa disangka Alfie menyukai Summer, kembarannya. Summer sangat berbeda dengan Skye, Summer sangat menyukai ballet seperti hidupnya hanya untuk ballet. Skye merasa kembarannya lah yang lebih pefect dari pada dirinya. Dan itu membuat hatinya sakit dan lebih memilih dengan dunia barunya yaitu mimpi Clara.Disamping itu, Skye juga merasa kehilangan sahabat baiknya yaitu Millie yang akhir2 ini lebih memilih bersama dengan Summer. Skye merasa dikhianati oleh sahabatnya sendiri. Inilah saat2 terberat bagi Skye, melihat sendiri bagaimana banyaknya cowok yang menyukai kembarannya, sahabatnya perlahan pergi menjauhinya, dan yang terpenting mimpi2 Clara yang tidak ditemukan titik terangnya. Lalu apa yang terjadi pada Skye selanjutnya? Apakah ia tetap iri pada kembarannya? Lalu bagaimana persahabatannya dengan Millie? Dan apakah ia berhasil memecahkan misteri dari Clara? Temukan selengkapnya di buku ini :))) I also really liked her friendship with Alfie and how she gave him the benefit of doubt when no one else did. Alfie is messy and adorable. I think Alfie is going to be included more in the story especially as his storyline has something to do with Skye’s twin sister, Summer. The fact that his storyline is open ended and secondary again shows how these books do a good job of having longer running plot lines across the series while having ones that start and finish in the same book too. Another really good instalment in the series. Skye is trying to stay herself when everyone around her has decided to start ‘growing up’ by being into boys and such. But she has no interest in any of that and feels quite mature without it all. Skye also has a big interest in history and a certain mystery of the past that relates to their estate. I liked where that storyline went although it did get a bit cheesy at the very end of the book. Skye and Summer were identical twins. The first thing they did when they were born was hold hands (how cute?). They finished one another’s sentences, felt what the other felt. But recently, everything had changed. It had always been “we”; now there was “you” and “me”. It was so interesting seeing how the twin whole twin-thing works and how their relationship developed, The rest of the sisters were vastly different from one another – each felt like they had their own distinct personality. Fourteen-year-old Honey, who used to be the “coolest sister” ever, but since the whole Cherry-Shay and Dad-moving-to-Australia, had been “off the rails”. Even though she wasn’t always ‘likeable’, I really liked how she said what she thought. Cherry Costello, the new sister, was really sweet and really worried about fitting it. Cherry was super smart and wise and cool. I loved her! Eleven-year-old Coco was cute: all hyper and rather funny. She was really excitable, bouncy, cheerful, and full of life. Plus: animal mad – I like this kid!

Her twin Summer was quiet, confident and addicted to ballet. She was also a real feminist – woman power means that boys and romance equals trouble. But she wasn’t nearly as supportive of Skye as Skye was for her. She just didn’t understand that some things were as important to Skye as ballet was to her. I think she thought that identical twins were identical in all ways, and she struggled when she realises that wasn’t true. At one point, I wanted to just yell at Summer and shake her, like: “can’t you see how much you are hurting Skye?!” But then, she just changed in my eyes. I love characters that do that – that become so strong you just can never tell where they’re going. I really did like this book as it was a little spooky and not a really girly book, so it’s quite different form Cathy’s other books.Cathy's style of writing is brilliant. Similar to making her stories believable, Cathy's style of writing is amazing. I particularly like the way she describes every single detail, like the food spread out at the buffet, she carefully describes exactly what is there using all five senses. She creates a perfect image in my head, and I think that's why she is my favourite author. I can really connect with the book and her characters. Skye and her family is so believable. That's what i love most about this book, the fact that it feels like i'm having a conversation with Skye, or it feels like i'm looking inside her brain. Obviously most books are like this, but Marshmallow Skye really stood out to me in the way the story was described. Skye Tanberry feels like she’s constantly living in her identical twin’s shadow. Skye loves Summer more than anything… But she’s tired of feeling second best, like a mirror girl. So when Skye finds a trunk full of beautiful old clothes, belonging to a long-dead relative, she sees an opportunity to be different. Only, when she tries the dresses on, she has dreams. Dreams that feel real. Dreams in which she doesn’t feel herself… Dreams in which she is Clara Travers, her dead relative, dead by suicide…. And then she finds herself falling in love with an equally long-dead gypsy boy – a boy who probably is just a figment of her imagination… But is he? After all, Clara did love a young gypsy boy… I finished this book yesterday, and Cathy Cassidy is my favourite author. I would recommend this book for ages 9+.

Marshmallow Skye was a beautiful, heart-warming, chocolate-filled story about finding yourself – with a scrummy side of an impossible romance, a tragic death, finding freedom – whether from a cage or your family – and a wonderful supernatural twist. And I was lift feeling all warm and squidgy inside – much like the namesake sweeties, marshmallows. I loved this book. I’m now desperate for Cherry Crush and Book Three. Whoever’s story it may be, I know – I know – it will be fantastic. (Fingers crossed for Honey, by-the-way.) Plus… Too Cute! Summer has always dreamed of dancing, and when a place at ballet school comes up, she wants it so badly it hurts.The plot is suitable for tweens/teens growing up. I think this book is great if you're starting to feel a bit more grown up, around the age of 11/12/13. I love how there are problems in the story that I would have with my friends. Being a teenager, I think this book gives younger girls a little taste of what it's like coming into puberty, blah blah blah A perfect next step for fans of Jacqueline Wilson, by the bestselling author of Scarlett, Dizzy, Angel Cake and Ginger Snaps. Read more Details