Hot Under Pressure takes us once again to the drama-filled Rising Star Chef competition, this time to a satisfying and emotional conclusion. We finally get to see who wins, and more importantly we finally get inside the head of Henry Beck, the handsome, taciturn competitor from the earlier books in the series. We learned in…
I’m wondering if Louisa Edwards wishes she’d chosen a different heroine for her latest Recipe for Love series. Somehow right now doesn’t seem like the best time to have a super rich, super bitch heroine and Eva Jansen in Some Like It Hot is both. I couldn’t stand her and I sure as hell couldn’t…
Yowza! There’s nothing like romance in the kitchen to get juices pumping and hearts pounding, especially when the writing sizzles like it does in Edwards’ latest. When his mother phones black sheep Max Lunden and asks him to come home to the family’s Greenwich Village steak house, he’s in Tokyo, having just been accepted as…
Just by coincidence, I picked up the second book of Louisa Edwards’ Recipe for Love series at the library just before I started reading Just One Taste. It set some pretty high expectations for the third entry in the trilogy. Luckily for me, the book didn’t disappoint. Wes Murphy is the son of a con…
On the positive side, this one features a chef hero and a restaurant setting. (I’m big on both.) On the less than positive side, however, it’s also yet another in that perennial stream of “contemporary” romances featuring small-town, plucky 1950s-style heroines who take on the big city in their adorably spunky way and win. (I…
I love storylines that have the hero and heroine pitted against each other in a professional capacity. Add in a restaurant setting and I’m in heaven. Well, I’m in heaven as long as the book lives up to its promise. I’m pleased to report that Can’t Stand the Heat by debut author Louisa Edwards definitely…
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