A nice contemporary romance, Zoe is a creative chef who wins a place in a televised cooking competition and in the process falls in love with one of the judges, Gideon. The book follows the author's usual plotlines with a spunky young heroine, a lusty love interest, a nasty but beautiful rival, charming friends, lovely village settings and cozy cottages. With the exception of a slow and annoying couple of chapters where Zoe is treated like a servant while staying with "friends" between her cooking competitions, the book is a light right. I didn't understand where the deep feelings of love came from on both of their ends. We only got Zoe's perspective and even then I didn't quite get it. There was so mich longing and yearning but she only spent a little amount of time with gideon. How could she already be in love? And how was he in love with her? He was probably present in the book for maybe 1/3 of it. Maybe if we would of gotten his POV. Also, the whole cookery competition didn't seem realistic. I've watched several seasons of Top Chef to sort of get annoyed on how the cookery competition was being portrayed. Ugh and the in laws were simply atrocious. I was getting so annoyed with them. How fenella and her mother didn't murder them is beyond me.
What do You think about Recipe For Love (2012)?
I have no shame, I confess it: I like chick lit. This passed the time very pleasantly.
—Brecoder
loved this book, couldn't put it down. Another great read from this author
—Samirah
So far the weakest novel I read by Katie Fforde.
—atol
