Monday, February 29, 2016

Book Review: Taste


Book: Taste (A Love Story book #3) by Tracy Ewens

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Description:

If only life were as simple as following a recipe.

In her twenties, Kara Malendar found herself at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in Paris, thousands of miles away from the harsh media coverage of her political family. But Paris ended abruptly when she was summoned home to Los Angeles and expected to stand in again as the senator’s perfect daughter.

Now, thirty, Kara has made a different kind of life for herself. As a food critic for the Los Angeles Times, she casts a critical eye on other people. That is, until her past finds his way back into town and opens a new restaurant.

Logan Rye, the youngest son of the Ryeland Farms family, is a chef and knows exactly what he's doing with his life. After a few years spent getting his head and heart together, he's opened a new farm-to-table restaurant, The Yard, in Los Angeles. It’s his passion, but according to the LA Times, he’s a trend.

Kara and Logan haven't seen each other since she left him in the lobby of her Paris apartment building, but when she is asked to write a feature on him, it's not long before they are rediscovering the delicious parts of each other. As things heat up, all recipes are forgotten, and Kara and Logan realize nothing was what it seemed in Paris.

If Logan can only find a way to trust, he may be exactly what Kara needs . . . if she's ever going to taste life again.



Rating: 2 stars (Did Not Finish)

Review:

This was really boring and too predictable. The story follows 30-somethings Kara Malender and Logan Rye who reconnect after years from when they broke up. In flashback scenes, the two once dated while studying abroad in Paris back when they were in college. However, their relationship ended once Kara abruptly left to head back home to the US.

In the present, Kara is a harsh food critic while Logan is a chef running his own restaurant in Los Angeles. They met for the first time in years at a party her politician father was throwing to thank his volunteers at Logan's restaurant.

After this scene is when I stopped reading this, as I said above, this was boring. However, one of the main reasons I stopped reading this story was because of Kara. She was hard to connect with and very off putting. She can't stand up to her overbearing parents but seems to have no problems being cold and mean to people as well as in regards to writing her reviews. It felts like she goes out of her way to write particularly harsh reviews.

But it was that party scene that really made me dislike her even more. Because during that scene, she was really enjoying the food she was eating. However, instead of letting Logan know that, she instead purposely and intentionally said in a childishly way that the food was atrocious. She is supposedly a well-known and well-respected food critic yet she would purposely be so rude and possibly ruin Logan's restaurant's reputation because she couldn't deal with seeing him again.

The one good thing I did like about this story was Logan, he was an interesting, charming and well written character. I wish the rest of the story was given the same amount care and attention. Maybe if this story was more interesting, I would have stuck with it to possibly see if Kara actually becomes likeable. But I couldn't.

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