This was a super cute, quick read with excellent illustrations. I found the directionless-ness of being out of college and looking for a job aspect of this, too.

It was super cute to see Ben find his love of cooking and food and also crush hard on his cute mentor, Liam.

However, the chef of the resultant was just a not great addition to this story for me. I felt like he was supposed to be this grumpy guy that once you get to know was super soft, but it came across more as his being just entirely awful and then a switch flipping and he was fine. I can see the direction it was supposed to go, but it just didn’t get there with that character for me. 

Overall, it was a really fun and cute novel and I enjoyed my time reading it!