I received a free digital copy from the author/publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Charlie Garett dreams of running her own kitchen as a pastry chef but is stuck under the control of a crazy top chef in a high class New York restaurant. When her ex-boyfriend offers her her dream job, Charlie quits New York for Seattle but soon discovers there's a catch - Avery wants her to star in a reality TV show with him, showing the behind the scenes work of a top kitchen. As Charlie's new glamorous life is underway she begins to wonder what it is she really wants and what she's willing to give up to get it.

This book would probably be great for foodies or those who love watching shows like Masterchef, Chef's Table or GBBO. It gives a great behind the scenes look at how kitchen work and just how intense and crazy the life can get - not to mention the exhausting hours the people in the kitchen work to create some amazing food.

However, despite the great kitchen scenes, I just could not get into this book. I just really did not connect with the main character Charlie Garrett. She is played off as being a bit of a clean and organisational freak but obviously insanely talented with sugar and, of course, beautiful but I found her to be pretty obnoxious most of the time and really, really stuck up. I did not like her..at all from start to finish. She made some weird comments throughout the book that I found annoying and unnecessary that also made me raise my eyebrows a bit from needing to describe every bot of her exercise routine at the start of the book (did we really need to know she completed 100 sit ups?) to commenting on how her friend's body was back to almost normal after being "distorted" by three pregnancies. There's also a lot of commentry around her friend and her kids - the kids are always dirty and screaming and there's definitely disdain there in Charlie's voice. Not to mention this friend never appears in the story without her kids which was a bit annoying as well. It's like she didn't serve a purpose than being the messy mom/shoulder to cry on while also holding an infant. The kids were also written in all the ways I hate kids being written - whiny, too cutesy and not talking properly. Gah.

I also didn't like the relationship.I found it weird and too fast considering they never saw each other. After one date, they were doing double dates and after two dates, they were going on road trips to meet his entire family on which she was questioned about her plans on marriage and kids (like who does that?). There was also a 'cute old man' they met that her boyfriend Kai knew who made a comment about all the women he normally meets are "tomboys" who don't shave or wash properly and it was nice to see a city girl who knew what a shower was show up. Yeah, I didn't know how to take that comment. I hated Kai's weird possessiveness over Charlie, especially considering they were hardly daring or seeing each other. He went into the relationship knowing what she was and her dreams yet he punished her for staying late in her job and made a big deal out of everything. Back. Off. Man.

Most of this book just had me rolling my eyes and i just kept hoping for it to get better and it didn't. I feel like Charlie completely folded and gave up on her dreams by the end and I just didn't really care for the happy ever after at the farmer's market she seemed content with. Okay then.