Book Review: A Legend in the Baking by Jamie Wesley
- Kristen Lewendon
- Nov 27, 2024
- 2 min read
Sugar Blitz Book 2
In A Legend in the Baking, the new romance from Jamie Wesley, a cupcake-baking football player gets assistance from a social media maven―and his best friend's little sister―to help promote his new bakery after accidentally going viral online.
August Hodges was supposed to be the silent partner in Sugar Blitz Cupcakes. Emphasis on silent. That is until his impromptu feminist rant about how women bakers are the backbone of the industry and baking cupcakes isn’t a threat to masculinity goes viral, making him the hottest bachelor in town. With a new location in the works, August and his partners decide to capitalize on this perfect opportunity to help cement their place in the community. But the hiring of his best friend’s younger sister, the woman who has haunted some of his best dreams for years, was as much of a shock as his new-found fame.
Social media manager Sloane Dell fell hard for her brother’s best friend the moment she met him more than a decade ago, but that teenage infatuation cost her dearly. Still, she accepts her brother’s request to revamp the bakery’s social media presence to take advantage of August’s newfound popularity, knowing it’s the big break her fledgling career needs. She’ll just ignore the fact that August is still August, i.e. sexier and sweeter than any man has a right to be. And that he drives her crazy with his resistance to all her ideas.
They vow to leave the past in the past. But when an explosive make-out session makes it clear their attraction burns hotter than ever, Sloane and August are forced to reconsider what it means to take a risk and chase your dreams.
As they’re both about to find out, all’s fair in love and cupcakes.
My Review:
Anybody who loves angsty, slow-burn romances is probably going to love this book. I adored the first one, and I desperately wanted to see stories about the rest of the cast of characters that filled out those pages. This was quite different than I had been expecting. For a series centered around a cupcake bakery, this book felt kind of somber. Added to the incredibly slow burn between Sloane and August plus my rising frustration level that they wouldn’t (perhaps couldn’t) tell one another how they really felt, and I started questioning if I was the right audience for this story. But I hung in there, and the ending made up for just about all my misgivings. The conclusion was as sticky sweet and adorable as I was hoping. Now, I need to know what it’ll take to bring their third business partner to his knees.
I received a complimentary copy of this book through NetGalley.
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