The only thing personal chef Noelle Jones loves more than Christmas, is cooking. She has a roster of extremely wealthy clients including the elusive and stoic Alexander Hoxton. When he asks her to cook a last minute business meal he’s having, offering triple her pay for the short notice, Noelle jumps at the chance. It’s easy money, one of her favourite meals to cook, and will still leave her plenty of time to get to her family’s annual Christmas reunion.
Just a Taste is contemporary romance at its finest with the perfect blend of ingredients: sexy, angsty, endearing, feel-good and funny.
My thoughts: This was a fun, festive romance, with a grumpy love interest for bubbly, Christmas fan and amazing chef, Noelle (her twin is called Eve) who gets stranded by the weather in Alex Hoxton’s fancy mansion over Christmas.
Having catered a dinner for his Board members, Noelle is supposed to drive to her Gran’s house to celebrate with her large and excited family. But the weather has other ideas. Her client, Alex, doesn’t do Christmas. There’s no tree, no cards, no carols and no pudding. He’s the Grinch to her Whoville family (if you’ve seen the film or read the book, hopefully that makes sense) and she just doesn’t understand why.
Trapped together in his rather austere home, with a falling apart heating system, and not much else to do but cook and get to know each other better, with frequent phone calls from her family, you can guess what starts to happen…
Will Noelle help this grumpy festive refusenik find his Christmas spirit? Will Alex actually turn out to have a heart that isn’t two sizes too small? Will they fall madly in love? Well, anything can happen at Christmas!
Cute, funny and perfectly capable of making you hungry (so many descriptions of delicious food) and with a charming pair of potential love birds, this is a festive romance to curl up with instead of watching The Grinch for the 900th time.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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