Title : Baking Me Crazy (Donner Bakery #1)
Author : Karla Sorensen
Release date : October 8th 2019
Date Read : September 15th 2019
Rating : ★★★★.25
“What matters is that it's you and me. It always has been. Five days, five weeks, five months or years, the time doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is that you love me"—she paused, pulling back so that I could see her eyes—"and that I'm just as in love with you.”
Baking Me Crazy, the first in the romantic comedy Donner Bakery Series of standalones, from Karla Sorensen is available now!
I'm Levi Buchanan, and until five years ago, I thought the legend of my family's curse was a load of crazy, Southern nonsense.
No curse can make you fall in love at first sight. No curse can force a true, deep, passionate, all-consuming love that will haunt you all the days of your life.
Then I met Jocelyn Abernathy and I realized how completely wrong I was.
The problem is, Jocelyn guards her feelings like well-armed soldier. She's the most beautiful, stubborn, infuriating woman I've ever met. Every time she talks, I want to kiss the living daylights out of her. But I can't.
Because when we met, she didn't need true love. She needed a best friend. And that's what I've been to her... for five years.
But when Jocelyn meets a handsome stranger her first day working at Donner Bakery and she lets him buy her a dill pickle cupcake, I realize with ominous regret that I may have missed my window with my best friend.
If I can't get her to see past our friendship, my new curse may be to watch the love of my life move on with someone else.
MY REVIEW :
When I found out about Smartypants, I jumped at the chance to read them asap, because what is better than more books in Penny’s universe? I’ll tell you : nothing. Nothing is better.
I’m not really into insta-love, it’s one of the tropes I don’t usually lean towards, but this book was so wonderfully written that I didn’t mind it at all, I even loved it. The characters are so well written, as is their relationship, that you can’t help but feel it too. I do believe that the fact that it started as an unrequited kind of love did help quite a bit.
Before I talk about the relationship, let me say something about the characters.
Levi is one of the sweetest characters I’ve read about. He is so inherently good, you can’t help but love him. He is also very selfless and makes it a mission to always put the people he loves first, Joss being at the top of that list.
Which brings me to our other main character : Jocelyn. If there was one word I’d use to describe Joss, it would be “Strong”. That is not to say she is never vulnerable or inhumanly tough, quite the opposite, she is one of the most humane characters I know. She’s been through so much, but she never lets it define her, she has her moments of vulnerability, but she never gives up. A genuine fighter. I also adored her dark sense of humor.
These two, in my honest opinion, make the perfect pair. They’ve been best friends since they met, they share everything together, are always there for each other. They’re a very funny and heartwarming pair. Levi has been in love with Joss since the day they met, and the years have not changed that, if anything, they’ve only reinforced it. But Josslyn is none the wiser..
“Whatever my own soul was comprised of, that intangible thing residing in my body that made me me met its match the day I met Jocelyn. And trying to make someone else fit was one massive exercise in frustration.”
I loved how their relationship moved gradually from an unrequited type of love to a reciprocated one. Unlike most of the books with this trope, Joss doesn’t wake up one day and realize she’s in love with her best friend and has been for all these years, but rather, she slowly but surely falls for him during the events of this book. Which was a very refreshing and new take. The shift, to be quite honest, felt very natural and organic to me, and I adored how Levi felt the change in their relationship as soon as joss started realizing that she was, in fact, falling for her best friend.
Aside from the main characters and the relationship, I also very much enjoyed the little apparitions of Cletus and Jenn Winston, it brought a big smile to my face and made me miss them all the more.
This book also deals with Jocelyn’s disability, which, for me, was such an important topic and made me enjoy this book infinitely more. As we hardly ever see a romance book where the main character is in a wheelchair. And I loved how the author tackled it without making it seem or making the reader feel like Joss was any less an incredible character because of it.
I also very much enjoyed the scenes with Levi’s family, especially between Connor and Sylvia, I absolutely wouldn’t mind a book about them.
All in all, this was such a cute and enjoyable read for me. And if this is how the Smartypants books start, then I absolutely cannot wait for what the rest has to offer.
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