Reviewed by Kimberley
TITLE: A Full Plate
SERIES: Dreamspun Desires # 56
AUTHOR: Kim Fielding
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 218 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 17, 2018
BLURB:
Opposites come together for a spicy surprise.
Bradford “Tully” Tolliver has everything—money, a great car, a beautiful condo, and a promising career as one of Portland’s hottest young lawyers. Sure, he puts in long hours and has no social life to speak of, but who needs romance when corporations pay top dollar for his expertise? He hesitates when a colleague asks if her cousin can live with him, but the arrangement will last less than a year, and then the cousin—Sage Filling—will return to his tiny hometown.
But Sage is handsome and intriguing, and his cooking makes Tully swoon. Sage has obligations back home, though, and Tully has offers he might not refuse from a persistent—and very wealthy—ex. Since Tully and Sage each have a full plate, can they make room for a side of love?
REVIEW:
This is book #56 in the franchise and gives us Tully, a hot shot attorney and Sage, a small town foodie. It’s a city mouse falls for a country mouse type of story.
This book is really sweet and light with no heat or angst. It was… okay. The thing with this—as with many other stories in this Dreamspun franchise— is that it’s too formulaic. That works when it comes to the visual aspect of the books; the covers, color schemes, designs and such but not when it comes to actual content. With the tropes being used in these stories being as common as they are, more needs to be done to make the book stand out, especially since these stories tend to have little to no heat.
I liked this author’s characters a lot; these men were sweet, funny and likable. The author’s writing style was solid and I really liked dialogue. The editing was on point. The technical aspects of these books are always very well done. The storyline however, could’ve used just a little more… seasoning to sort of give the story a bit more flavor. It’s was just a tad on the bland side.
All in all, the book turned out okay. It wasn’t super exciting but it wasn’t bad at all.
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