I am flying high after finishing this book. I don't remember exactly what put it on my radar, but when my library hold came up I reread the blurb. A hot queer woman and a hot nonbinary person get together on a cooking show?!?! Sign me the F up!
I was not prepared for how validating this book would be to read. I am a queer woman. My partner is a nonbinary person. It was my favorite thing this year to read a book about that particular type of relationship. It helped a lot that the book was smoking hot and really good on top of all of that. But I super appreciate the representation!!!
Dahlia, this queer woman, is a WRECK. Like this baby is having a time. But she quits her job and jets off to LA to be on this cooking show. There she meets London. This audio engineer from Nashville who wants to start a LGBTQ+ nonprofit. There are so many antics.
I was hungry the entire time I read this book. Every single food item discussed sounded incredible and I wanted to try it immediately. There is also food sex, which was hot in the book and absolutely sounds terrible if you would try to translate that to real life. Luckily they were in a hotel. Can you imagine trying to clean that up in your own bedroom?!?! Not for me.
There are some heavy themes in this book. They talk about divorce and transphobia. They touch on dealing with strained parental relationships. They also talk about what happens when you realize that you don't want children, and I would definitely call it a content warning for anyone who is dealing or has dealt with any infertility struggles. Or even if you dealt with blowback regarding your own choice of whether or not to have children.
Even with some of the heavy themes, this book is hilarious. A fun, quick read. It gave me all of the comfort that I get from watching cooking shows. So if that's your jam, you'll like this too.
ETA: This was just as good upon the relisten. London really is swoony as all heck. Dahlia is just as much of a wreck, but also just as hot. Considering the themes dealt with, it's a shockingly cozy read. And I look forward to the rest of the series! I didn't know we were going to get more of these lovelies!
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Dahlia had dreams, but vague, blurry ones, dreams that held no concrete value. Seeing the world. Doing something she was passionate about, something meaningful. She simply had no idea what that something was.Highlighted by 190 Kindle readers- She did not want niceness that was only granted because she appeared to fit into the boxes deemed acceptable by society.Highlighted by 188 Kindle readers
- Dahlia understood who she was less and less with each passing year. Like she was growing up wrong.Highlighted by 173 Kindle readers
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This is the first novel I’ve read where a main character identified as non-binary. I went into it hoping to learn from the character’s perspective. I feel like I may not have the correct words to describe this novel. It was a romcom, but for me it was also such an important opportunity to see a perspective I have not experienced firsthand. As a woman, the topic of gender has always been inescapable when considering my place in society. I have always speculated how much more difficult it is for people to identify as non-binary in a world that strives to label us all. “And that was comforting, too. That each person could choose what brought them closest to belonging, the power in that. Knowing that one day, people might discover even better words for it. That there was only ever freedom in continuing to find new names for who we were, who we could be.” I found the relationship between Dahlia and London to be so pure. I’m not sure how else to describe it. I loved that the author did a magnificent job of conveying those moments of unspeakable feeling - joy and emotion so overwhelming it cannot truly be described - where we are so present that we shed anything that isn’t an inherent part of our humanity. In the story, for London, those were the moments where they were not burdened by society’s expectations or the concept of gender. These were moments where they could just be. The book was funny at times, serious at others - cute most of the time. I recommend it for anyone willing to go into a story with an open mind.
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- Jill (readinginpjs)Reviewed in Canada on April 19, 2023
This was an adorably sweet (and spicy) romance!
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