Review: This is a hard one to rate
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2014
This is a hard book for me to rate, so I'm going with middle of the road here.  I enjoyed the premise of the novel, and it had some good moments, but it just didn't flow that well.  The Chef (Dakota) seemed bi-polar, though I'm sure that wasn't really the intention.  He ran so hot and cold you never knew what you were getting with him.  Samuel was a more stable character, but he wasn't fully fleshed out either.  The two MCs were written to have this uncontrollably magnetic physical attraction, but couldn't stand each other emotionally for much of the book.  It just didn't work. Nothing is wrapped up neatly in this book either.  There are two plot points that you are hoping to find out the answers to by the end of the book, and it never happens...the book just ends with little warning that it's coming...it just stops. There were things I did like about the book, and if the second in the series has been available right away, I probably would have gotten it because I really hate cliffhangers.  Certainly not my favorite book, and not really sure I'd read it again, but I did finish it.  The same can't be said for all of the books I've purchased, so it definitely wasn't one of the worst novels I've read.  It could use some work, and I think it has great potential, just missed the mark a bit.