Review: Romantic treat
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2013
This review refers to an advanced reader copy of THE GREAT FRUITCAKE BAKE-OFF provided by the author.If you like a little food for thought with your romance, this treat from Vicki Batman may be for you. After a bitter breakup with The Creep, Samantha is in no hurry to mix it up again with the opposite sex. Enter Dixon, the yummy new guy in the apartment complex, and Samantha finds herself regaining her appetite for love. But it’s not till the two, egged on by Samantha's BF Bethany, pair up for the complex’s annual fruitcake bake-off that things really start to heat up. What none of them know is that lurking is a saboteur who’d stop at nothing to see the reigning fruitcake queen and co. flop.Will Team Samantha rise above the mischief to win the competition? I won’t spoil the fun and tell, but I will say that the story went down easy in one sitting. I enjoyed the interplay between the characters and admired the chivalry of the hero, who is much more than a pretty basket of buns. The interesting historical tidbits and recipe twists have tempted me to take another chance on the title’s much-maligned dessert.