- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Barbour Books; 1 edition (July 1 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 160260455X
- ISBN-13: 978-1602604551
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #793,425 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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After eight years of unrequited love, Meredith Guidry makes a New Years resolution to find someone new and end her single status before the years over. Executive Chef Major OHara has foresworn relationships, knowing he could never saddle the woman he loves with a family situation like his. But when it seems hes about to lose Meredith Guidry to another man, he realizes he must concoct a MENU FOR ROMANCE to win her back.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (34 customer reviews)
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Menu for Romance, July 9 2009
By J. L. - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Menu for Romance: Love Heats Up for the Chef and the Party Planner (Paperback)
I started reading this book over lunch and when I looked up it was three in the afternoon. I don't mean that it was particularly suspenseful, but it has characters weird enough to be interesting but sturdy enough that I felt like I knew them. The characters that will be in the next book seem so (outwardly) perfect that I'll probably be getting that one too.
Meredith, the heroine, struggles with detaching--and distinguishing--herself from her large family. Usually in books families are either perfect or emotionally abusive. But a family that's just nosy and demanding of your time? That I can relate to.
But where Dacus really shines is in her world-building. Bonneterre seems like a real place. C.S. Lewis wrote about how he read as much for the fun of "living in another world" as anything else, and Menu For Romance achieves this. I love that Bonneterre is a mid-sized city. I don't know about you, but I'm getting a little sick of incestuously small towns in fiction.
This was a sweet, surprisingly compelling romance.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Delicious!, July 12 2009
By Stacey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Menu for Romance: Love Heats Up for the Chef and the Party Planner (Paperback)
Kaye Dacus has completely captured my imagination once again with her novel "Menu for Romance". Although I found the name "Major" to be an awkward name at first, I came to adore it as I grew to understand his character. The chef, Major, and the event planner, Meredith, are destined for each other. But neither will come forward and reveal their feelings for reasons that may seem valid, but are actually ridiculous as you get to know the characters and can see how well-suited they are for each other. But when Meredith's eye is drawn to another man, Major must jump into action or risk losing the lady he loves to someone else - someone who definitely doesn't deserve her!
This is an amazing novel filled with beautiful details ("The tile in the kitchen sent shockwaves of cold up his legs"). It is laugh-out-loud funny - in fact some moments caught me completely by surprise while I was reading at work during my lunch hour! Major's relationship with his mother is warm and touching. And the dishes that Major created made me drool! This book has absolutely every ingredient for a smash hit novel! I will recommend it to everyone I know!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
wonderful culinary romance, July 2 2009
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Menu for Romance: Love Heats Up for the Chef and the Party Planner (Paperback)
At the Vul de Ciel in Bonneterre, Louisiana, Meredith Guidry sadly muses that her thirty-fourth New Year's has arrived and she still has never been kissed. Instead she has been in love with her co-worker Major O'Hara since they met eight years ago, but he shows no signs of reciprocating. Instead her unrequited love has left her with nary a kiss or for that matter a date. This year she vows it will be different as she resolves on New Year's Day to move past Major and seek male companionship.
Major has loved Meredith since he first met her eight years ago. He wants to ask her out and taste her lips, but fears she will laugh at him; besides he has a family secret that embarrasses him to his bone narrow. Instead he expects to die a lonely old chef. However, when he sees Meredith on her first date, he's jealous and vows to take a chance by telling his beloved how he feels as ridicule would be easier than staying idly on the side.
The latest Brides of Bonneterre (see STAND-IN GROOM) is a fun tale of two shy individuals in love with one another, but neither can take that first courageous step. The story line is much more than described above as each has family issues also to cope with. Kaye Dacus provides her fans with a wonderful culinary romance starring a super strong extended cast but especially two people who once believed love was only a fairy tale.
Harriet Klausner
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