Rating: 3.5/5
CW: experienced homophobia and biphobia, experienced sexual coercion, some physical violence

I really enjoyed the baking show elements of this book - it really felt like a central element of the story rather than a background for the romance. Rosaline's character was also pretty well-written and a joy to read about. I also loved how Hall is not afraid of making her flawed - she holds certain classist ideas at the beginning, and she has to put effort in questioning and challenging them. Another great thing about the book are the side characters and the found family they have.

What I'm a but iffy on is the love triangle. The execution was clever in some regards - for example, having the meet cute happen with Alain and then slowly making it obvious that he is a classist asshole who doesn't really listen to Rosaline was genius. However, I don't think he needed to attempt to coerce her into a threesome for me to understand how terrible he is at this point. Morevover, he monopolised the story so much that I didn't get to know Harry, the other love interest, as much as I wished. If this was marketed as a chick lit I'd be more forgiving of that, however, this is a romance novel, so Harry deserved more character development as the final love interest.