![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t know if I liked Dahlia or London more? On one hand, we have Dahlia, who is just so sunshiny but fiercely protective of those she loves but is having a quarter life crisis about who she is and what she should do with her life. It felt like actual adult behavior, and so many times in books adults tend toward juvenile behavior so this felt very refreshing. Dahlia wallows for maybe a second, laughs it off, and then proceeds to make friends on the show. ![]() (I love reality cooking competitions so I was the exact right audience for this.) The meet-cute is the literal start of the book when Dahlia is upset that London doesn’t wish her luck before the competition begins and then Dahlia has a humiliating incident on camera immediately afterward.īut the humiliating incident and the meet-cute is handled so well on-page that I didn’t get second-hand embarrassment at all. I felt like the author rolled up multiple reality cooking shows together to create one that worked in this world. Just encouragement and laughter and love of the craft. And I loved everything about this book from beginning to end.ĭahlia and London are competitors on a cooking show and one of the things I loved so much is that there is no antagonism between them at all. I’ve raved about Anita Kelly’s first two books and have been really anticipating her debut with Forever. ![]()
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