I thought that I just didn’t like contemporary romance because I had a lot of issues with the last several contemporary romance books I read. And maybe this still isn’t the genre for me, but this book definitely changed my mind about some things.

This book is fun. It’s cute. It’s sexy. The characters are engaging. It’s wonderfully queer. It’s perfect for fans of cooking competition shows.

Even when this book used tropes or kinks that I don’t like, I didn’t mind because the characters didn’t take themselves too seriously and I never felt like the author was trying to force me to be into those things.

This book is friends to lovers and I would say somewhere comfortably between slowburn and insta-love. They’re attracted to each other from the beginning, but the author takes the time to build their friendship between putting them in explicitly sexual or romantic situations.

I relate to Dahlia a lot. I’m not sure that’s a good thing. But I would probably also fall for London cause they’re very cool.

I was bothered by some of the pacing near the end of the book, but it’s definitely possible that things will change before publication and overall I enjoyed it a lot. 

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an eARC of this book. All opinions are my own.