Reviews - Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef

I wish the editor helped reshape this story. In a memoir, I want some sort of coherent narrative flow that everything centers around/builds to. This felt less like a memoir and more like some vignettes to me. I’m not sure of the source material, so maybe that’s what I’m missing? The author writes on IG, so maybe this was just a bunch of little moments that were strung together for the novel? It just felt really uneven. It took until the final moments to help understand the meaning of food/sex to the author... I wonder if the whole book had been shaped to build to that if it would have felt better? And then here’s a thought that I don’t know that I’ll explain well: it was both not slutty enough... and too slutty? When I think of “slutty” I think of someone in charge of their sexuality ... Samantha a la SATC... She wasn’t really slutty to me... There were maybe only three men in this book and they were all situationships... not short one night things? That said, there was graphic sex.

Some “If you liked” style comparisons: If you want a cross between The Bear and Sex and The City/Girls... but with less heart.