Amanda Elliot

I found this one to be a lot of fun but only because I am a huge fan of Top Chef.

If you don't love that show you might be annoyed by this book which is more about the inner thoughts of a chef conceptualizing and cooking dishes for the "Chef Supreme" reality TV show than it is about the potential romance between Sadie, a contestant, and the dreamboat guy she met on her flight to NYC who just happens to be the newest judge of the show.

I was expecting more sneaking around for secret, romantic, rendezvous in the off camera areas and less detail about what everybody was cooking that day. Still, as a TC junkie, I enjoyed the whole thing anyway. Still, as a pure romance it was not my favorite.… (more)

Did I become hungry as I read this book?

Duh.

Look my dream years ago was to become a food critic. Who wouldn't want to go out to restaurants and give their opinion all on someone else's dime??? And now, in the age of influencing, who knows what can happen ;)

But that's the problem with this book. I hate influencers. They have too much power....but I digress. This book excelled when talking about the food or the, albeit predictable storyline of the traditional food critic and the "new guard" social media influencer hating each other--then working together--then having sex and falling in love. In that order I saw it all coming and you could easily make it a Hallmark storyline (pretty sure they have already)

There are supporting storylines about friendship, doing a career you love, and OF COURSE misunderstandings.

So all that to say, the book was fine. Nothing earth shattering and the pages basically defending influencing I could have lived without.… (more)