SPORTOCHICK’S MUSINGS: An entertaining quick read.

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A Legend in the Baking
by Jamie Wesley

Pub Date November 19, 2024
St. Martin’s Press | St. Martin’s Griffin

DESCRIPTION

In A Legend in the Baking, the new romance from Jamie Wesley, a cupcake-baking football player gets assistance from a social media maven—and his best friend’s little sister—to help promote his new bakery after accidentally going viral online.

August Hodges was supposed to be the silent partner in Sugar Blitz Cupcakes. Emphasis on silent. That is until his impromptu feminist rant about how women bakers are the backbone of the industry and baking cupcakes isn’t a threat to masculinity goes viral, making him the hottest bachelor in town. With a new location in the works, August and his partners decide to capitalize on this perfect opportunity to help cement their place in the community. But the hiring of his best friend’s younger sister, the woman who has haunted some of his best dreams for years, was as much of a shock as his new-found fame.

Social media manager Sloane Dell fell hard for her brother’s best friend the moment she met him more than a decade ago, but that teenage infatuation cost her dearly. Still, she accepts her brother’s request to revamp the bakery’s social media presence to take advantage of August’s newfound popularity, knowing it’s the big break her fledgling career needs. She’ll just ignore the fact that August is still August, i.e. sexier and sweeter than any man has a right to be. And that he drives her crazy with his resistance to all her ideas.

They vow to leave the past in the past. But when an explosive make-out session makes it clear their attraction burns hotter than ever, Sloane and August are forced to reconsider what it means to take a risk and chase your dreams.

As they’re both about to find out, all’s fair in love and cupcakes.

REVIEW

If the reader is looking for an entertaining quick read this is the book for them. They will thoroughly enjoy the push and pull interaction between Sloane and August.

Author Jamie Wesley’s development of these two characters was believable and I found myself really wishing to do an intervention so they would take down their walls and talk. This part of their relationship felt very real and twisted my heart with pain.

Sloane was my type of female character she was smart and quick witted in business. Her character opened my eyes to the fact that we can overprotect our heart so much that we will lose out on love.

My first impression of August was that he was the strong silent type, but nothing stood out as memorable and it took me a while to warm up to him. Once the author revealed other facets to his personality I became quite enamored with him.

I hope the reader enjoys this story as much as I did.

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

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