Rating 3 stars out of 5
“Welcome to a new season of Burned, where we find fresh new cooking talent… and a few culinary disasters! Every season we do something a little different, and this time it’s all about the sweet things in life. Get ready in week one as twenty pastry chef hopefuls and dessert connoisseurs compete for the thirteen coveted workspaces in our Burned kitchen. With stakes this big, we ask the one question on everyone’s mind: Do these chefs have what it takes to rise to the top? Or will they get Burned?”
Burned contestants Chase and Kai are attracted from the start and can’t wait to spend more time getting to know each other… until they see the first episode treatment and realize the producers intend to portray them as bitter enemies. At first it’s fun to pretend to bicker—enemies on film, lovers when the cameras stop rolling—but soon it’s hard not to take the faux rivalry seriously. It’s only when their choice is to band together and bake their way to the final or get burned that they find where their real loyalties lie.
Usually when I give a book a three stars I mean I like it. In this case I gave Soufflés at Sunrise by M.J. O’Shea and Anna Martin three stars just for the writing, but I honestly didn’t enjoy it. If I’d have to give a rating just following my liking I honestly give it two stars. I totally appreciated the concept of story, the writing and the ending. But the first word that comes to mind when I think about this book is boring and nothing else, because I couldn’t feel anything between MCs. Were they attracted to each other? I really don’t know, they seemed to me friends that sometimes had meaningless sex, with no chemistry or love at all.
Soufflés at Sunrise is the second book in the Just Desserts series by Anna Martin and M.J. O’Shea. The first one, Macarons at Midnight, wasn’t good too but I wanted to give this series a second chance cause I loved some of the books these two authors wrote, but I haven’t changed my opinion.
Of course there’s a lot of food talking (that I love hearing about) and being set in a food tv show there are also other characters, a lot of them, but all of them without depth, I know nothing more than their names. In the end I everything came to me as shallow.
I always feel bad say negative things about a book cause I have no idea about all the hard work a writer put in it, but unfortunately sometimes a book doesn’t work and I can’t connect with it. So I’m sorry I can’t recommend this series to you.
Cover art by L.C. Chase. I’m a foodie girl so this cover is a winner to me. I just wish my desserts could be so beautiful!
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Book Details:
Published February 23rd 2015 by Dreamspinner Press
ebook, 206 pages
ISBN13 9781632167842
Edition language English
Series: Just Desserts #2
Just Desserts Series:
- Macarons at Midnight (Just Desserts, #1)
- Soufflés at Sunrise (Just Desserts, #2)
- Devil’s Food at Dusk (Just Desserts, #3)Expected publication: June 2015 by Dreamspinner Press
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