Review: There's something cooking, and not just in the oven!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2013
Something's Cooking is a fun, light hearted romance where the main characters can't fight the sparks that fly whenever they are in the same room.  Tess and Josh go from antagonistic to lusting at each other before you can say chocolate mousse.Tess Banyon is the new Martha Stewart. Her cooking and craft empire is exploding and with a new TV show her popularity will soar.But, Tess is a fraud. She can't actually cook or craft anything without practicing it numerous times. She has fabulous ideas but to make them reality she relies on her sister and mother to make the magic happen. Her family doesn't want to be in the spotlight, they happily leave it to Tess which has been fine for now. With the new TV show Tess is feeling guilty and her anxiety over messing up adds to the stress.Enter Josh Faraday, an investigative reporter who has been bad mouthing Tess and her rise in the business world for month as his alter ego JR. Josh wants to stardom Tess seems to have received with a snap of her fingers. He's been pushing for his own TV show and recognition and gets nowhere. So he leaps at the opportunity to write a tell-all article about the real Tess Banyon, planning to expose her for the fraud he feels certain she actually is.I really enjoyed the overall story and the chemistry between Tess and Josh. There are so many scenes that are comedic and the flirtation is rampant. Tess holds herself back, or tries to, because Josh is a reporter and she is keeping a pretty big secret. Josh practically forgets his real purpose for being there and seems to only want to get closer to Tess (preferably without clothes)My only issue is I never quite understood how Josh could be SO antagonistic towards Tess purely based on the media reports of her rise in popularity or why he seemed to compare his career with hers. He's a reporter with an opinion column. She makes fun recipes and cute crafts and focuses on typical "womanly arts". How is there even a comparison?Regardless, it's a sweet, funny, sexy romance with some heat that doesn't just come from the oven.4 stars out of 5I received a copy of this novel for an honest review