"Friends to lovers at its best-- a sweet indulgence I couldn’t put down!” - R.S. Grey, USA Today Bestselling Author
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.
'Baking Me Crazy' is a full-length contemporary romantic comedy, can be read as a standalone, and is book#1 in the Donner Bakery series, Green Valley World, Penny Reid Book Universe.
Review:
3.5-4 stars
This is Levi and Joss's story. Joss's family moves to town when she is in high school. She is in a wheelchair due to a disease that has affected her ability to walk. She is participating in wheelchair basketball, when she meets Levi, who is one of the coaches and recently graduated from high school himself. He is immediately attracted to Joss and asks her out, but she turns him down as she is still dealing with being differently abled and not in a good place to date. Instead they become the best of friends. For five years, they are inseparable. Levi dates, but Joss is never ready to date. Until she finally meets a guy she is interested in, who turns out to be her new physical therapist. Then Levi realizes he doesn't want to be in the friend zone anymore and wants her to give him a second chance for love.
I enjoyed this story and the writing. I liked Levi. Joss was a little prickly but I liked her more as the book went on, too. I did feeling like the unrequited love aspect went on too long. There was too much of a slow burn. Even at well over 50%, Joss was still crushing on her PT. So there was a good bit of OM drama in that respect. But this was still an enjoyable book. It was cute and an easy read with a little angst added in. The fact that Joss was differently abled and how she dealt with it was eye-opening and interesting. I liked seeing Green Valley and Penny's characters from another perspective.
Overall, Baking Me Crazy was an enjoyable read. I liked Joss and Levi as a couple. They really fit together and I was happy that they were able to move from friends to lovers and find happiness together. They were fun and sweet. I enjoyed my first foray into the Smarty Pants romance world and look forward to more!
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About Karla Sorensen
Karla Sorensen has been an avid reader her entire life, preferring stories with a happily-ever-after over just about any other kind. And considering she has an entire line item in her budget for books, she realized it might just be cheaper to write her own stories. It doesn’t take much to keep her happy…a book, a really big glass of wine, and at least thirty minutes of complete silence every day. She still keeps her toes in the world of health care marketing, where she made her living pre-babies. Now she stays home, writing and mommy-ing full time (this translates to almost every day being a ‘pajama day’ at the Sorensen household…don’t judge). She lives in West Michigan with her husband, two exceptionally adorable sons and big, shaggy rescue dog.
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