Reviewed by Stephen K

TITLE: Chef in the Wild

Series: Sizzling in the Kitchen #1

AUTHOR: M.J. O’Shea

PUBLISHER: Self-Published

LENGTH: 130 Pages

RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2019

BLURB:

He would’ve never guessed he was one perfect burrito away from falling in love…

Chef Baldwin Powell has everything he could ever want.

Until he doesn’t.

Fancy parties, celebrities, magazine write-ups, his own little empire of stainless steel and fire – he thought all of it was forever. It only takes one awful meeting for everything he’s worked for to be yanked out from underneath him. And one fateful meeting with the owner of food truck, of all things, to realize maybe what he thought he wanted isn’t what he needs after all.

They’re opposites in nearly every way – On paper it should be a disaster. But life and love in the wilds of Manhattan rarely work out the way anyone expects

REVIEW:

Comfort Food, Comfort read. Sometimes a voracious reader needs a change of pace. Sometimes you have a taste for something exotic. Other times you want something simpler. This one spoke to me on the “something simpler” level. Though it starts with one of the main characters losing his boyfriend and his job on the same day, he’s a very successful, very talented chef, he’s done well enough in his life to this point that it’s actually a pretty low angst, story. He’s already made it in Manhattan; and as they say in the song, “if you can make it there you can make it anywhere.”

Sure, he goes into a bit of a funk, but soon he’s met a younger guy who’s a born and bred Brooklynite, who runs a food truck, and who’s ready willing and able to help an ex-top-chef lick his wounds. The course of true love never does run smooth, and there are some hiccups along the way, but the ones in this tale are pretty minor and you just know that their difficulties will be worked out.

While Baldwin and Murph may make sweet moussaka together, what they make in the bedroom is mostly left to the imagination. While the tale involves two chefs, the on-page fare is mostly savory & sweet, it never gets too spicy. Sometimes that’s fine too. Both chefs have interesting friends and families and it’s just nice to spend time with them.

Since this is the first in a three book series, I guess I’ll be doing some of that.

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