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So glad I made it past the late 90s, I would’ve been an embarrassing ghost then.

Grave Expectations by Alice Bell

The Crime Brulee Bake Off by Rebecca Connolly

March 15, 2025 by NTE Leave a Comment

You ever just start scrolling down your library’s “available now” page, even though you have eleventy-seventy thousand books in your TBR mountain? Yeah, me too. And that’s how I wandered into two pretty good, but out of my usual genre, cozy-ish mysteries that I came here to recommend. They’re both debut novels, and I read them on audio – They have the same narrator, Sophie Roberts, who did such a great job w/The Crime Brulee Bake Off, and that I clicked her name to see […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Alice Bell, baking show, cozy, crime brulee bake off, England, Grave Expectations, mystery, rebecca connolly

NTE's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Alice Bell, baking show, cozy, crime brulee bake off, England, Grave Expectations, mystery, rebecca connolly ·
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Delightful Baking Competition Romance

Love at 350° by Lisa Peers

October 8, 2023 by LB Leave a Comment

This ended up being a really cute, fun romance. Tori is a single mother, a chemistry teacher, and a home baker. When her twins sign her up for American Bake-o-Rama, she is hesitant but then sees it as an opportunity to prove her abilities and skills, most especially to herself, and if she wins she can take the prize money to finally start the bakery she’s always dreamed of. Kendra is a well-renowned chef but her restaurant of the heart, Gamma Rae’s, isn’t doing as […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: baking competition, baking show, debut author, foodie romance, lesbian romance, Lisa peers, love at 350 degrees, main characters aged 40+, Romance

LB's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: baking competition, baking show, debut author, foodie romance, lesbian romance, Lisa peers, love at 350 degrees, main characters aged 40+, Romance ·
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I wish I was better at baking

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall

August 15, 2021 by Malin 1 Comment

CBR13 Bingo: Libations (the whole setting of the book is a televised baking show, so there are a lot of both sweet and savoury baked treats in the story and featured on the cover) Official book description: Following the recipe is the key to a successful bake. Rosaline Palmer has always lived by those rules—well, except for when she dropped out of college to raise her daughter, Amelie. Now, with a paycheck as useful as greaseproof paper and a house crumbling faster than biscuits in tea, she’s […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Alexis Hall, baking show, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Contemporary Romance, emmalita, emotional abuse, friendship, libations, Malin, Rosaline Palmer takes the Cake, winner bakes all

Malin's CBR13 Review No:30 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Fiction, Romance · Tags: Alexis Hall, baking show, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Contemporary Romance, emmalita, emotional abuse, friendship, libations, Malin, Rosaline Palmer takes the Cake, winner bakes all ·
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    on “What is a river but an open throat; what is water but a voice?”
    I've read it, but I haven't listened to the audiobook. I'll have to check that out!
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    on “What is a river but an open throat; what is water but a voice?”
    No, but now I'm wishing I had! The print version has really lovely illustrations though.
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    Ooooo, have you read This is How You Lose the Time War? If not I recommend it, and recommend the...
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    Did you listen to the audio? The singing is almost magical. I loved this a lot, I just wanted it...
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