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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of this book.
There is something so addictive about romcoms that centre around food, I don't know what it is. This was no exception, I absolutely loved the descriptions of the food and the way it brought people together.
Food is such an important aspect in many cultures and I loved the discussions in this book with Dylan trying to recreate an old family recipe in honour of his mother and Theo trying to reconnect with his Asian heritage on his mother's side that he felt lost from.
The relationship between these to was so cute, I like that the fake dating took up a good portion but not so much that we were left without fluffy moments between the two, a perfect balance!
There is something so addictive about romcoms that centre around food, I don't know what it is. This was no exception, I absolutely loved the descriptions of the food and the way it brought people together.
Food is such an important aspect in many cultures and I loved the discussions in this book with Dylan trying to recreate an old family recipe in honour of his mother and Theo trying to reconnect with his Asian heritage on his mother's side that he felt lost from.
The relationship between these to was so cute, I like that the fake dating took up a good portion but not so much that we were left without fluffy moments between the two, a perfect balance!
It's a cute concept. And that's about as far as it goes. The main character is annoying and so whiney. I don't usually annotate books but I had to with this one. I thought it was funny at first, how many times Dylan did something that made me wanna toss the book out the window, but here I am with at least 40% of the book highlighted. Megan weirded me out most of the times where it was clear she was supposed to be comic relief, and I'm not sure if the author perhaps forgot the main character and his love interest are 17 with the many weird sexual "jokes" and comments in this book. For some reason Dylan seemed very focused on this shower thing and while I get maybe mentioning it once it's mentioned like,, 5 times or something? Like, we get it, you don't want him to see you shower. But also he gets upset when he doesn't look?? The book is full of weird plot twists. Not really weird because they were unexpected but because they kept arriving with either no foreshadowing or there were simply too many of them. It felt like reading a Wattled book written by a 13 year old at times. It's like this author wanted to put everything in their book at once and instead of editing it and deciding what would make for the best story, they instead threw every trope imaginable in there. Oh wow, there's only one bed? I would have maybe gotten excited about that trope if it wasn't for Megan blatantly stating that that would probably be the case a few pages earlier. Like many of the out of place tropes in this book, Dylan also ended up being some weird hero at the wedding for saving Terri who,, honestly I don't get why that was necessary. I'm sure you could have gotten Theo's family to like him without making him save his cousin from possibly shark-infested waters. Speaking of Terri, I don't think I've ever seen that much oversharing from a character. Oh wait, no, actually, that's just Dylan's entire character. Because instead of showing literally anything everything has to be spelled out. Dylan has got to be the most unlikeable MC I've read about in a while. He has insane amounts of plot armour, get's annoyed over minor things and the fucking insta love in this almost made me DNF this book. It certainly made me laugh in disbelief a handful of times. There's maybe a page or two I enjoyed reading of this book, specifically the epilogue. I'm not sure if it's because I actually enjoyed the story or if I was just glad it was ending. I predicted something happening so that Theo would end up helping him with the contest but a random ass thunderstorm or whatever it was ruining the entire store was not on my checklist. Because it came out of fucking nowhere and made no damn sense. Just like when it turned out to be Bernard who was trying to keep them apart. Like, I'm sorry but why is an adult man meddling in their "love life" and why the fuck was he forgiven so easily. Every time I thought "oh, now they're gonna be affected by the plot" Theo either swooped in and solved it all with his money, someone in Theo's family swooped in and solved it all with their money or some absolutely ridiculous plot armour managed to save the day anyways. It was getting ridiculous towards the end. I bought this book because it looked cute. The cover is nice and so is the feeling of getting to close the book, but if you want to read anything of interest you're probably better off jumping onto AO3..