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leelee68's review against another edition
5.0
4.5 stars rounded up to 5... This ended up being really good even though Gideon started out as an a**, at least to me. I get why but still, hehe. I thought both he and Jonah were extra hot together and were also very sweet together. I loved hearing about all the delicious food and of course it made me hungry. Not sure if there's going to be another book in this book universe but I would love for Rico to meet up with someone special. Just a little random, not important thing except probably just to me, but because my mind works like this, lol This was my first book purchase of May ;-)
wordnerdknitter's review against another edition
1.0
The book is about gay Jews, and reads as if the author has passing familiarity with gay people and none at all with Jews. Also the romance is a mess, and the characters deeply incoherent.
bfdbookblog's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 Stars
I hate to say this is not one of my favorite Felice books. I really felt like the story didn’t flow very well. It seemed like Gideon and Jonah were all over the place. Gideon hated Jonah while secretly crushing on him and was pretty hateful at the beginning of the story. Jonah was extremely sappy while attempting to be an alpha with Jonah and take over everything. I didn’t care for Gideon doing a complete 180 about his feelings for Jonah with very little resolution to his feelings of hate from the beginning of the book. I felt like I had a bit of whiplash during the story.
I am trusting Felice’s knowledge of the Jewish faith and trusting that Jonah’s sexuality and relationship with Gideon wouldn’t be an issue.
I did empathize with what Gideon is going through as my son is dyslexic and it is very frustrating to try to read and write when you feel stupid. And his present to Jonah at the end totally broke my heart and made me so happy at the same time. I also felt bad that Jonah felt so much pressure to follow in his father’s footsteps. I’m glad Gideon stepped in to help make forward progress on relationship between father and son. Ultimately I think Gideon and Jonah are good for each other and am glad they have each other.
I hate to say this is not one of my favorite Felice books. I really felt like the story didn’t flow very well. It seemed like Gideon and Jonah were all over the place. Gideon hated Jonah while secretly crushing on him and was pretty hateful at the beginning of the story. Jonah was extremely sappy while attempting to be an alpha with Jonah and take over everything. I didn’t care for Gideon doing a complete 180 about his feelings for Jonah with very little resolution to his feelings of hate from the beginning of the book. I felt like I had a bit of whiplash during the story.
I am trusting Felice’s knowledge of the Jewish faith and trusting that Jonah’s sexuality and relationship with Gideon wouldn’t be an issue.
I did empathize with what Gideon is going through as my son is dyslexic and it is very frustrating to try to read and write when you feel stupid. And his present to Jonah at the end totally broke my heart and made me so happy at the same time. I also felt bad that Jonah felt so much pressure to follow in his father’s footsteps. I’m glad Gideon stepped in to help make forward progress on relationship between father and son. Ultimately I think Gideon and Jonah are good for each other and am glad they have each other.
the_novel_approach's review against another edition
4.0
For those fans of the Breakfast Club series of books, we met Gideon as the caterer for a wedding that takes place. Gideon and his partner, Rico, own the Garden of Eat-In, a restaurant and catering business. When Gideon agrees to take on the dinner for his old synagogue, things get interesting when he finds out his high school crush, Jonah Fine, the rabbi’s son, has come back home and is going to be taking over as the head rabbi. Gideon never thought that a.) Jonah is gay and b.) that he’d ever been good enough for somebody like Jonah anyway. Turns out Gideon is wrong about a LOT of stuff.
maisierosereads's review
2.0
I got this book for 99p through Bookbub, and wish I hadn’t spent the money. It was okay enough for me to read until the end but overall it felt rushed and had no structure. The characters didn’t seem well developed (definitely not like real people), and the relationship was very rushed. Gideon should have been working on his issues through therapy, but his anger is brushed over as a result of being a gay dyslexic man.
From the style and content it was very obvious that this book was written by a woman for women - not necessarily a problem, but it definitely contributes to these characters not feeling realistic.
I won’t be reading books by this author again unfortunately.
From the style and content it was very obvious that this book was written by a woman for women - not necessarily a problem, but it definitely contributes to these characters not feeling realistic.
I won’t be reading books by this author again unfortunately.
sararo's review
2.0
I so wanted to love this romance between a kosher caterer and a rabbi, but I didn't believe that they had been in love with each other for ten years since high school (
??) without seeing each other once (a LOT of growing up happens between 18 and 28) and the second half had too many dramatic turns, some of which were unresolved.
??) without seeing each other once (a LOT of growing up happens between 18 and 28)
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