Baking Me Crazy by Karla Sorensen Series: Donner Bakery #1
Published by Smartypants Romance on April 18, 2020
Pages: 258
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Chris Brinkley, Reba Buhr
Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
Genres: New Adult, Romance
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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.
I was hesitant when I found out about this new series of books penned by various authors and set within Penny Reid’s book universe—-specifically in the Green Valley town that is home to the Winston brothers. I wasn’t sure another author could do justice to the kooky but heartwarming vibe I’d grown to love. Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit if Baking Me Crazy didn’t make me a believer.
This unrequited friends-to-lovers romantic comedy by Karla Sorensen maintains all the humor and charm I craved. Levi is simply perfection. His affection and devotion towards Joss is so evident you have to wonder how she could be so blind to not see that he’s in love with her. Every single thing he does is for the sole purpose of making her happy. I felt like Joss takes him for granted sometimes, but I liked this cheeky heroine. She’s sarcastic, stubborn, funny, and brave. I loved their easy bond.
Joss’s coworker at the bakery makes a lively addition to the small Tennessee town. Joy is aptly named. She captivated me with her bubbly nature and habit of romanticizing the most mundane of gestures. I hope she gets her own love story.
Cletus and Jenn Winston make brief cameos and are snuck seamlessly into the story. It’s merely an added bonus, though, because it’s the storyline and quality of writing that won me over.
The audiobook is fantastic. Chris Brinkley and Reba Buhr do a superb job with the narration. You can hear the smile in their voices and they had me grinning from ear to ear throughout the entire book. It’s sure to lift even the grumpiest of moods.
Recommended for fans of:
Romantic comedy
Friend turned lovers trope
Baking
Small towns
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 and two exceptionally adorable sons.
i need to add this book on my TBR… Thank you for the review 🙂
Yay! I love this author, so I was hoping you would like this book. I had the same reservations about the world this was written in. I still need to read this one, but now I’m taking a sigh of relief that it was good.
If you like Penny Reid’s humor, I think you’ll enjoy it.
I finished this book not too long ago and thought it was cute, too. Glad you enjoyed it!