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Wow! The Lost Recipe for Happiness by Barbara O'Neal was much different than what I expected! It wasn't light and fluffy but real and somewhat dark. So many characters with so many flaws, both physical and emotional, and I loved them all. My favorite of all: Ivan! I would love to sit next to him at a dinner party. Pick this book up if you want a couple of days filled with laughter and tears!Go Cards! L1C4!!
This is an airport book, good for nothing more than a long flight. Elena wants to be executive chef of a really cool restaurant and have everybody think she's The Shit. But she is Haunted. By the ghosts of her sister and her Soul Mate. Any author that can use the words "soul mate" over and over again, without a single soupcon of irony, is not an author anyone wants to read anywhere but on a very boring flight.And also, there is a LOT of sex in this book (spoiler alert: she even gets all sexy wit...
I loved this book! I loved each and everything about it. The characters were written so that you grew attached to them and felt their stories.J The food was amazing. I could close my eyes and taste the food along with the story. The character of Elena was so real to me, I know how she couldn't let anyone in too close, because I was like that for years. Amazing book! Bravo Ms. O'Neal!
The Lost Recipe for Happiness was my first book by O'Neal. It has a romance interwoven into the story, but this is basically a story of survival, and knowing when to finally let go of what might have been so you can embrace what might be even better. It's a heart-wrenching story but I liked it a lot and gave it 4*
Loved it. Just absolutely loved this book. About 60 pages in I started slowing down my reading of it just so it would last longer. The characters were excellent....even down to people in her past and her dog. All of them were meaningful and important. This is definitely not a cute, light read... it's more edgy and lightly explores a lot of subjects that some consider controversial. None of the topics bothered me though...The writing felt true to life and the characters have stuck with me since I...
Finally a book I really liked and I finished! Elena is a woman who has suffered tragedy and survived. She is strong and focused on her career in a man's world of restaurant chefs. The story follows her as she has the opportunity (after being fired)to pursue her dream of being the head chef of her own restaurant.I loved the character development, the fact that everyone was not perfect and how they each dealt with their own issues. I am not a cook, but the recipes woven through out the story make
I had higher hopes for this book. The story line was interesting and I liked the recipes that were stirred in between the chapters, but it just didn't live up to my expectations, became highly predictable, and the "romance" was a little too sappy and border-line trashy. I was happy to be done with it and wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wanted a "good" book to read.
This isn't "Sex in the City" chic lit--this one actually has some seriousness and some heft. Elena, the lone survivor of a horrific car wreck that killed a number of her family and her boyfriend, is a chef now, living with her damaged body and her more damaged soul in the tough, male dominated world of high end cuisine. She's offered her first executive chef position with the challenge of renovating and recreating a restaurant in Aspen. I absolutely FELL into this book. I identified with the kit...
4.5 stars
Icky enough that there was a romance shoe-horned into this downer tale of a VERY broken woman and her ghosts - but even more off-putting was the fact that the hero was the boss, and the heroine was trying to prove herself in a male-dominated field, and he pretty much hired her knowing he wanted to sleep with her. Yay for uncomfortable power dynamics!As if that wasn't depressing enough - I could not get past the physical descriptions. The hero was described as pale, spindly, big nosed, black-eyed...
