A review by joykirr
All You Knead Is Love by Tanya Guerrero

4.0

Sweet story. I’m glad I had the audio and the print edition for this one - especially for the sprinkles of the Spanish and Tagalog languages. The first chapter gave me reason to continue reading - why did Alba’s mom ship her off to her grandmother’s house? Then “Abuela Lola” was intriguing to me - she’s Spanish and Filipino. Alba was still lost at first in Barcelona, and as soon as she ran away to an alley and met Toni, the owner of a bakery, she became enamored with baking (and he provided support her abusive father did not). I liked watching Alba find herself, find who her mom really was, and figure out her relationship with others, yet I thought this went a bit quickly. I didn’t really have a sense of how much time had passed - including the flashbacks Alba had - so that could be why.