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Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle
4.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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

This delivered on its premise and was mostly enjoyable. I still have some worldbuilding questions remaining, hence the rating, but I think this was a very interesting combination of themes. We've got meditations on grief and what it means to move on, some complicated romance, immigrant family troubles, and then the culinary inventions. I don't even know what the correct genre for this book would be, but it was a compelling read.