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3.71 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was a cute sequel to Fake It Til You Bake It.
Sloane was such a bad ass for not settling for corporate bs. She was bold and believed in her abilities, and went with what she knew was deservedly hers in the end.
August lost like 2 cool points for how he handled the past incident with Sloane, but present day August and Sloane were adorable. Their care and gentle handling of each other added such a delicate layer to the story. The yearning through dual timelines was beautifully written.
This book could have really benefited from a few more pages or an epilogue.
Sloane was such a bad ass for not settling for corporate bs. She was bold and believed in her abilities, and went with what she knew was deservedly hers in the end.
August lost like 2 cool points for how he handled the past incident with Sloane, but present day August and Sloane were adorable. Their care and gentle handling of each other added such a delicate layer to the story. The yearning through dual timelines was beautifully written.
This book could have really benefited from a few more pages or an epilogue.
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-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:
Yes
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:
No
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-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:
No
This was my first Jamie Wesley book and it won’t be my last! A Legend in the Baking is the perfect mix of sweet and spice, delivering everything I love in a romance: delicious tension, laugh-out-loud banter, and the slow burn of long-lost love reignited.
There’s something irresistible about a story set in a kitchen. Baking becomes more than just a backdrop, it’s an act of memory, of healing, of flirting. Watching August and reconnect over flour, buttercream and the whirlwind of social media, made my heart full. I’m a sucker for a second-chance romance, especially when it's filled with the kind of witty, electric exchanges that make you grin at the page.
Jamie Wesley knows how to write chemistry that leaps off the page. But what really got me was the Black love. Soft, smart, joyful Black love. Watching two Black people fall for each other with history, heartbreak, ambition, and sweetness felt like a celebration. This book reminded me that love stories don’t have to be grand gestures to be legendary they just need truth, care, and a little sugar.
If you like your romance with layers, heart, humour, heat, and homemade cake; A Legend in the Baking is a must-add to your shelf.
There’s something irresistible about a story set in a kitchen. Baking becomes more than just a backdrop, it’s an act of memory, of healing, of flirting. Watching August and reconnect over flour, buttercream and the whirlwind of social media, made my heart full. I’m a sucker for a second-chance romance, especially when it's filled with the kind of witty, electric exchanges that make you grin at the page.
Jamie Wesley knows how to write chemistry that leaps off the page. But what really got me was the Black love. Soft, smart, joyful Black love. Watching two Black people fall for each other with history, heartbreak, ambition, and sweetness felt like a celebration. This book reminded me that love stories don’t have to be grand gestures to be legendary they just need truth, care, and a little sugar.
If you like your romance with layers, heart, humour, heat, and homemade cake; A Legend in the Baking is a must-add to your shelf.
funny
lighthearted
slow-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:
Yes
emotional
funny
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:
Yes
emotional
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
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:
Yes
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Is this a ghostwriter?? The first book was much better. The story was good, I just didn’t like the writing style. It comes off as elementary and a little corny at times. Almost like she’s trying too hard to be rom-comy.
The character development for Sloane isn’t great. 17 year old Sloane and 29 year old Sloane think and act exactly the same. The inner monologue was grating. It was fine in the “past” chapters but the “present” ones just made her sound ridiculous.
Some paragraphs are awkward, some words are used incorrectly and some lines are thrown in but don’t land because of bad flow. Overall, the story is stilted and written in a way that forces a narrative. It just doesn’t come across as natural. And sorry but what does MOTY even mean? It’s just randomly used with no explanation. Why isn’t it explained??? Did I miss something?
I really did like the concept of the story. Just not how it was told. The audio book made it a bit better but that had more to do with the narrator than the writer. I mostly read this, so have reviewed from that perspective.
I think this book needed a better editor and perhaps would have worked better in 1st person. Maybe I’ll try this author again in a few years to see if her voice has improved. Great concepts, but her writing just doesn’t grip me.
This was such a “tugs at the heartstrings” kind of story for me in terms of some of the self-reflection that both Sloane and August had to walk through. Being a part-time baker myself, this book and the first one have nestled spaces into my heart with intertwining the stories of everyday people. Without saying too much, the intense love connection between A & S was both adorable and infuriating at times, lol. But the burn of it was fun to read!