Listen, Alexis Hall is brilliant, generally. Writes very down to earth books. Sometimes, however, there is this issue of the books in question being insanely long winded, which is what happened in A Lady For A Duke and also here. It felt as though a lot of it could have been condensed to some extent. 

Paris is difficult. He isn't exactly an easy character to follow -- if you've never experienced his level of anxiety he will drive you absolutely nuts. He is also incredibly stubborn and really frustrating to read because of that. 

I did, however, appreciate the representation of his mental health journey. Hall made his jumps in logic easy to understand. 

Tariq -- honestly, I would have rather the perspectives been switched. He was great; complex and interesting and he, for one, had many different relationship dynamics in his life.

The baking show element was fun, it was integrated well into the story but wasn't the focus of it. I liked all of the characters that were involved in it. 

Overall, it was an okay book, great mental health rep.