Reviewed by Louisa
TITLE: Hearts and Flour 
AUTHOR: Tara Lain
LENGTH: 87 Pages
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
RELEASE DATE: February 14th 2018
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Can a raw food enthusiast find love with a guy who bakes cupcakes?
When Micah Truveen’s devoted health-food customers start showing up with white flour, Micah wants to chew nails! To make his misery worse, he finds his yoga teacher boyfriend in bed with another guy the day before Valentine’s Day. Micah decides to drown his misery at a friend’s anti-Valentine’s Day orgiastic hookup party—and meets the beautiful Queen, a gorgeous cross-dresser who’s got Southern sugah in his mouth and the right equipment under the dress. But when the hookup turns serious, Micah has to compromise to protect Queen’s secrets from his beloved grandmother. With everything against them, can two hearts rise above the flour?
Second Edition
First Edition published by Etopia Press, January 2013.
REVIEW:
Overall this is a very short, cute and fluffy story that doesn’t really give you much character or plot development. Micah is a raw food vegan and he is very passionate about it. He dumps his boyfriend and ends up going to a friends anti-Valentine’s day party, where he meets the beautiful Queen. Queen is a beautiful Southern bell.
Once Micah figures out who Queen is, things become interesting.
My favourite character in this whole book is Quinten’s grandmother. She is fabulous and makes the story better every time she is mentioned or is on screen. And the yoga teacher ex-boyfriend provides a nice evil character too.
I found the whole raw food vegan thing hard. Micah getting annoyed when his clients went and ate muffins was really annoying. I understand the characterisation of vegan’s who feel the need to tell everyone their food theories, but it made him really hard to like for me. Maybe it is because I am a meat eater who happy about it.
This is a cute story and worth reading. But I don’t think it is one of Tara Lain’s best. I do look forward to reading more from this great author in the future though.
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