Review: Taking care of one another
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2013
Auntie Winifred owned a bakery where her nieces and nephews gathered daily.  She called them The Cupcakes.  They grew up playing together and watching out for one another.  When teenage boys try to take over their woods and swimming hole they band together to defeat them in Daniel Kelley's CUPCAKES.  They continue to watch out for one another into adulthood when life hands them a blow from which they may not recover.I enjoyed the stories told by Frances, nicknamed Froggie, as she and the Cupcakes grew up.  I felt like I knew them and was in tears by the end as adulthood comes and they have to question what they did.  The memories were done with fondness and when Zander, Froggie's older brother, asks the hard questions they can answer them with total honesty.  Though short, CUPCAKES is powerful.