I'd give 2 1/2 stars if possible. This was a good read - not great, but good. It was very predictable, but I kept thinking/hoping it would have a really big twist - nope. The author repeated a few things throughout the book, like reminding us about the last picture she took with her grandma. I think 3 or 4 times she described the picture and where it was and how it was taken. Yup, got it the first time. The book plodded along and wrapped up fairly neatly. I liked the authors writing style but I was unimpressed in all that she could have done with the book and various characters and plot ideas but didn't do. Holly Maguire’s grandmother Camilla was the Love Goddess of Blue Crab Island, Maine—a Milanese fortune-teller who could predict the right man for you, and whose Italian cooking was rumored to save marriages. Holly has been waiting years for her unlikely fortune: her true love will like sa cordula, an unappetizing old-world delicacy. But Holly can’t make a decent marinara sauce, let alone sa cordula. Maybe that’s why the man she hopes to marry breaks her heart. So when Holly inherits Camilla’s Cucinotta, she’s determined to forget about fortunes and love and become an Italian cooking teacher worthy of her grandmother’s legacy.But Holly’s four students are seeking much more than how to make Camilla’s chicken alla Milanese. Simon, a single father, hopes to cook his way back into his daughter’s heart. Juliet, Holly’s childhood friend, hides a painful secret. Tamara, a serial dater, can’t find the love she longs for. And twelve-year-old Mia thinks learning to cook will stop her dad, Liam, from marrying his phony lasagna-queen girlfriend. As the class gathers each week, adding Camilla’s essential ingredients of wishes and memories in every pot and pan, unexpected friendships and romances are formed—and tested. Especially when Holly falls hard for Liam . . . and learns a thing or two about finding her own recipe for happiness
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This is a delightful, romantic but not too sugary sweet novel for those who like a happy ending.
—e_carg
The book was a typical romance but the recipe for risotto was worth the price of the book!
—jnasia
It was an okay book. I didn't ever get to the point of "can't put it down".
—nisha
