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Chef vs. Chef by M.J. O’Shea: RB, New Release Review and Giveaway

June 19, 2019 by Denise

Bobby Diaz has worked his whole life to get where he is – running a restaurant with his two closest friends, no boss, and generally content. When his best friend Baldwin gets the gig of a lifetime, he asks Bobby to take over the restaurant while he’s gone. He’ll miss his friend, but he’s excited to put himself to the test. He can’t believe he’s getting the chance to finally run his own kitchen.

Cal Mayer is thirty and starting over. His last relationship was a failure. His job went down the drain. So when his cousin Pete, a.k.a Baldwin Powell celebrity chef, offers him a gig in his restaurant, he can’t help but to jump at the offer to reinvent himself.

Bobby and Cal don’t exactly hit it off—to put it lightly. Bobby resents getting Cal dumped in his lap. Cal doesn’t appreciate Bobby’s frosty attitude. They’re stuck together day and night, and their chemistry is undeniable… but will it be sweet summer love or a case of too many chefs in the kitchen?

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This was totally meh. It’s readable, but utterly forgettable.

Quite a bit of the book is spent before the two main characters even meet each other. Both went through a big change in their lives so it is them (separately) getting their feet under them again.

Then they do meet and because of a stupid misunderstanding, one hates the other.

Then finally, FINALLY, they kiss. And it’s like this fast forward through all of the fun stuff. “Spring turns to summer…”. Uh, ok. What about THEM? As a couple? Dating? Cute flirty stuff?

Even during the hate period, it wasn’t even competitive fun hate. It was just one guy being a total jerk.

Weak storyline that really had potential. Weak characters. Weak romance.

Just meh.

MJ O’Shea has never met a music festival, paintbrush, or flower crown she can stay away from. She loves rainstorms and a perfect cup of tea, beach days, music, bright colors, and more than anything a cozy evening with a really great book.

She is from the Pacific Northwest. While she still lives there and loves it, MJ has the heart of a wanderer. So she puts all her dreams of far off places and extraordinary people in her books.

Except for every once in a while when she does what all travelers have to do on occasion… come home.

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Sweet Obsession by Riley HartMy review4 1/2 Pieces of Eye Candy!!!SO GOOD!Ok, I know I need to extrapolate. First Rory. This guy is just pure chaos. How no one has diagnosed him with ADHD is beyond me. He's the only one without living parents, or...any blood relatives I think. He was folded into Killian's family after his mother died. And even though Killian, Aislin and Tiernan love him as much as they could, it's not the same. It's not the same as parental love. Or romantic love. It's so obvious how much he craves it while saying he doesn't understand it. So he lives a bit on the wild side. Unafraid of almost everything- except someone in his found family getting hurt.And then there's Shai. Born when his mother was still a child, he has had a rough life with a pimp and sex trafficker for a father and an alcoholic drug addict for a mother. He and his mother finally escaped his father, but now he is the one working and trying to keep a roof over their heads while his mother just apologizes for, well, everything. Another guy who is desperate for love even though he hasn't really seen it.It's really no surprise that violence is what brings them together. Rory LOVES violence, Shai is starting to believe he does too. That rush he gets.Underlying the whole storyline is 2 men who crave violence and desperately need to love and to be loved. To be loved for exactly who they are. And in each other they get all of that. No one is trying to change anyone. They love each other as they are. Being the third book of three, it does a great job of keeping us up to date with all of the other characters and I think I squee'd a bit out loud when I saw the epilogue. I do love a good epilogue. Like a real one. Not a 6 weeks later kind of epilogue.Read this book. But read the first 2 first. You absolutely need to in order to really understand the underlying dynamics of Tiernan, Killian, Rory and even Aislin.The Author Agency Riley Hart ... See MoreSee Less

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