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The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
by Amy E. Reichert
I try to be all "don't judge a book by its cover" but I'll admit that I purchased this book for our library not just because of the good sounding synopsis. The cover is beautiful in that perfectly trendy almost shabby chic way, but it also just looks so delicious! Seriously, I spent 2 days wishing I could devour the cake on the cover. And I'm really not a huge coconut fan.
As for the actual contents of the book, I found The Coincidence of Coconut Cake to be cute, but borderline average. The food and restaurant descriptions in this novel were definitely spectacular, however. My mouth was literally watering for probably 50% of this book.
I liked both of the characters a lot. The comparative to the movie "You've Got Mail" was pretty accurate. And I am such a sucker for that movie, let me tell you. In this story though I felt the emotional side to be a little lacking. It just wasn't as thrilling, heart racing, "oh no" as I would have hoped. When we find her boyfriend cheating on her, I almost couldn't be bothered to care. Partially because leading up to that moment Lou's trepidation and general thought processes towards the idea of marrying him were so negative I was rooting for that moment, but also because it wasn't that interesting. We find out later why that bit wasn't as racy as you would imagine it would be, but still, in the moment, I was kind of just like, that's it?
She obviously wasn't terribly heartbroken, either. Because while she was furious and had her terrible restaurant night (henceforth the entire catalyst for the book's story), it took her months in book time to even talk to Devlin again. It was like: he cheated on me. That's it it's over. Moving on. She didn't even slap him, or pour hot coffee in his lap. Okay, Okay, that's not Lou's character at all. But you can't blame me for desiring a little more dramatics. This book was on such an even plane, even through the points that had the most tension that I just wanted someone to just do something that displayed a lot more emotion.
But alas, this isn't that kind of book.
So from then on Lou and Al started hanging out, and it was all well and good until it wasn't. I don't have anything else to comment about that really.
All of the characters were well likeable, descriptions were very good, it was just lacking some oomph. Some joie de vivre. A perfect little quick beach read in between some heftier reading. It's also pretty PG so I think it could easily appeal to a wide age and ideals range.
As for the actual contents of the book, I found The Coincidence of Coconut Cake to be cute, but borderline average. The food and restaurant descriptions in this novel were definitely spectacular, however. My mouth was literally watering for probably 50% of this book.
I liked both of the characters a lot. The comparative to the movie "You've Got Mail" was pretty accurate. And I am such a sucker for that movie, let me tell you. In this story though I felt the emotional side to be a little lacking. It just wasn't as thrilling, heart racing, "oh no" as I would have hoped. When we find her boyfriend cheating on her, I almost couldn't be bothered to care. Partially because leading up to that moment Lou's trepidation and general thought processes towards the idea of marrying him were so negative I was rooting for that moment, but also because it wasn't that interesting. We find out later why that bit wasn't as racy as you would imagine it would be, but still, in the moment, I was kind of just like, that's it?
She obviously wasn't terribly heartbroken, either. Because while she was furious and had her terrible restaurant night (henceforth the entire catalyst for the book's story), it took her months in book time to even talk to Devlin again. It was like: he cheated on me. That's it it's over. Moving on. She didn't even slap him, or pour hot coffee in his lap. Okay, Okay, that's not Lou's character at all. But you can't blame me for desiring a little more dramatics. This book was on such an even plane, even through the points that had the most tension that I just wanted someone to just do something that displayed a lot more emotion.
But alas, this isn't that kind of book.
So from then on Lou and Al started hanging out, and it was all well and good until it wasn't. I don't have anything else to comment about that really.
All of the characters were well likeable, descriptions were very good, it was just lacking some oomph. Some joie de vivre. A perfect little quick beach read in between some heftier reading. It's also pretty PG so I think it could easily appeal to a wide age and ideals range.