Brunch at Bittersweet Café

Brunch at Bittersweet Cafe is amazing and wonderful! There is nothing bad about this book, at least not for me. First, let me say that I work from home. It was all I could do not to steal time from work to finish this book! It's that good! I love Melody! I did read the first book in this series The Saturday Night Supper Club and I didn't really dig Melody that much, she seemed flighty and went from job to job. After reading Brunch, she's my fave! I love that she's a real person, who has made some mistakes and grown from them. She's not flighty, she just had some issues and had to work through things, like all of us. And every time she baked something I could smell it and taste it and wanted to put my face in the dough! Carla Laureano does a superlative job of character development (they all had depth and seem real) and food description. I seriously wanted to buy some bread and eat an entire loaf while reading this! I can't wait for the next book in the series! And I will add you can totally read this as a standalone but if you can get the first book, start there. It's wonderful also!

This was so good! I loved the first book in this new series. and this one just as great. I liked the update on the relationship between Rachel and Alex and the hints to what's going to happen in the next book (such a long wait!). Just like in the first book, this story revolves around food. I have someone in the family who has worked as a pastry chef, and it's just like in this story. The setting plays the role of anchor, but it's the characterization that makes the story shine. I totally recommend this series. Each one is a standalone, but it'll make more sense to start with the first one. I received a free copy from the author and this is my honest opinion.

My first read, but not my last, by this author. In Colorado, Melody Johansson, is working in a commercial bakery. Already 30, she thinks it may be time to leave the job she’s had for six months, the longest time she’d been in one place. She’s been wanting to travel and go back to Europe. A knock at the bakery door at 4 am is unsettling. After seeing the man and hearing his reason, seeing his id and his stranded car, she lets Justin Keller in to use the bakery phone. He stays in the bakery awaiting a tow truck. He is a pilot Why do most pilots seem to be handsome? Melody’s shift is over and still no tow truck. She offers to give Justin a ride home and he takes her up on it. After she drops him at his home, she finds herself wishing she had given him her number. The next day is the Saturday Night Supper Club Melody always makes dessert. For some time she has taken pictures of her dessert creations and posted to Instagram. Over 10,000 followers is pretty good. At dinner her friends Ana and Rachel encourage her to find a way to use her Instagram following to her advantage. Melody tells them about Justin. Ana asks for her cell phone and proceeds to find Justin on Facebook and sends a friend request to him from Melody. Checking out his Facebook pictures sees one of Justin and his niece at church Wow Christian and a good uncle. Melody and her friends comment it’s been awhile since they’ve been to church. Melody’s mother shows up to tell Melody her grandmother has died. Melody inherits her grandmothers house and investments. A letter from her grandmother encourages her to sell things and if Paris is her desire to use the funds for that dream. She could do that. Or she could open a restaurant/bakery with her friends Meanwhile Justin is thinking about Melody and that she seemed to have some religious faith while he was currently ambivalent towards God. Justin’s sister Jessica has MS. A warmer client will help. Justin and Jessica’s husband Pete are looking into a charter business in the Ft Lauderdale area. Melody yearns for Europe, or does she? Will she sell her grandmothers house and go to Paris? Justin yearns for South Florida. Or is that just what he wants for his sister? Will he move there? Melody believes in and trusts in God. Justin believes in but doesn’t have trust in God. Will they work it out?. Will they let go and let God, and both trust in him?