Review: Get Fired Up For This Book!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2013
Kate Meader mixes the sweet with the sizzle in All Fired Up, the second installment in her Hot In The Kitchen series. Cara DeLuca, an events planner, and Shane Doyle, Irish patisserie, meet in Vegas and well, in this case what happens in Vegas does NOT stay in Vegas! Cara is a perfectionist - controlled, driven and not quite comfortable enough in her own skin to let loose and have fun. While, Shane appears more laid-backed, fun-loving and everyone is drawn to him. Yet, they both come to the table with a past and secrets they'd rather keep hidden.What I enjoyed most about Kate Meader's characters' is that they were real and flawed, not the perfect fictional characters that you could never see yourself or anyone you know in. Yes they were gorgeous but no they were most certainly NOT perfect. They made mistakes and did not correct them right away. When they argued with themselves in their head you could see that they knew better, but didn't know exactly how to extricate themselves from the situation, or were just too afraid to do it. They did real things - things you might find yourself doing (just maybe not admitting to...)I enjoyed watching Cara and Shane find their way through the ups and downs of their relationship. There were tender moments, light hearted banter, passion, support, fights - all the elements that go into building an actual relationship.All Fired Up is the second book in the Hot In The Kitchen series. I did not read Feel The Heat, the first book, and I followed and enjoyed this story just fine. However, I do feel that I may have gotten more out of the book, with the other characters, the background, etc, if I had read the first book (something I am planning on rectifying shortly).I recommend this book to everyone who enjoys sweet yet, sizzling contemporary romance!Complimentary copy provided by Forever (Grand Central Publishing) via NetGalley for an honest review.