the irresistible blueberry bakeshop and cafe

I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes a Hallmark movie, and a pretty good one. This book is a well-above-average, refreshingly clean romance novel (and predictable, as the genre is), with a little historical mystery twist. I've seen better Lifetime movies.įirst, this book is nothing like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and the publisher does the book and the author a disservice by raising expectations when it compares the two in the book's blurb. I knew the ending from the first chapter, knew exactly what caricatures the mother and the finance were going to be, the conversations all seem to be people jumping to conclusions and/or misunderstanding each other in a totally improbable way it's almost as if the author wanted there to be a argument but couldn't figure out how to make it happen, so she skipped any logical sequence to that argument. Thirdly, one of the themes this book seems to be that you cannot judge a place and people until you get to know them (this small town is charming, not hokey), but the author seems to have a serious vendetta against Manhattan and its inhabitants, portraying them as stuck up, tennis playing stereo-types.

Secondly, I am really, really sick of authors assuming that every woman in the world doesn't know her own mind and just needs a hunky man who performs physical labor for a living to show her the true life she should be living! Grrrrr. First, the title and cover photo are totally misleading (I know, I know, don't judge a book), this is not a charming 'School of Essential Ingredients' book about cooking rather, the main character seems to have an eating disorder. I had a rule that I would only give one star reviews to books that I couldn't finish, but I'm giving one here to a book I did finish because I hated it more and more as I read it (actually, I probably just skimmed the last two chapters, so 'finishing' is open to interpretation).

The irresistible blueberry bakeshop and cafe