I don’t think it would have wide appeal for adults, but I can easily imagine middle grade readers loving it. This really is a cotton candy book, fun and entertaining with no real substance or depth. Demerara also happens to be a secret agent for the MI6, the British secret service, and needs Oz, Lily and their neighbor Caydon to use their latent magical ability to help on a secret mission.
One of the brothers, by virtue of an immortality chocolate, is still alive and intent on stealing secrets his brothers left behind, to sell to a terrorist group. Demerara tells them about the history of the chocolate factory, founded by three brothers who combined chocolate and magic. When Oz and Lily, eleven-year-old twins, and their family move into an abandoned chocolate factory, Lily is delighted to meet Demerara, a magical cat. The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop by Kate Saunders is a middle grade novel about magical chocolate-but it reminded me more of cotton candy, light and fluffy and insubstantial,
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