starzhang1121 's review for:

Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle

3.75

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Very conflicted. On one hand, I didn't care for the romance stuff, but on the other, the writing slammed me flat on my ass. WOW. The clunky plot gave birth to some amazingly tasty prose. The tender balance and mixture of love and food was mesmerizing- the love of food and the food of love. Plot aside, it was exquisite. But then the ghost stuff got complicated... unnecessarily. And I had to tough through the romance plot to get to the delicious writing in the center.