Baked Goods As Foreplay

I recently finished reading Mixed Signals by B.K. Borison. This is book #3 in the Lovelight series.

POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT

  Rating: 3.5/5 stars

"A small-town baker learns to raise her expectations for love with some help from a handsome local teacher in this sunny romantic comedy.

Layla Dupree has given up on love. She’s waded through all the fish in the sea, each one more disappointing than the last. Apparently, owning the bakery at Inglewild’s most romantic destination does not help one’s love life—despite Layla’s best efforts. All she wants is a partner who gives her butterflies, not someone who ghosts her at dinner and leaves her with the check.

Good thing Caleb Alvarez has the perfect solution. After saving Layla from another date gone bad, he has a simple one month of no-strings dating. He’ll do his best to renew her faith in men while she rates his romantic game. It’s a win-win situation. All the benefits of dating without the added pressure of feelings and unmet expectations.

But there’s one ingredient they haven’t considered. The chemistry between them is red-hot, and the urge to take things to the next level is more tempting than Layla’s mocha fudge brownies."

Book three of the Lovelight series had a lot of potential to be a great love story. Two Sunshine characters, one of them a golden retriever type, a great setting, and former main characters who make regular appearances.

Unfortunately, I wasn't a fan of the underlying plot this time. The storyline mostly revolved around the two of them going on dates to convince Layla that there are still "good guys" out there, aka Caleb. She had completely overlooked him for the last few years and just saw him as a good acquaintance who visited her bakery on a regular basis. All it took was for Caleb to wear a Hawaiian shirt to a party one random evening and she suddenly found him attractive and interesting. That was just not my thing.

It was great to see more of Layla's everyday life in the bakery and I could visualize her baked goods so well that I would have loved to eat them all myself. I could really empathize with the inner thoughts and doubts of each character and sometimes even recognized myself. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to really root for the couple because the overall package just wasn't good enough for me. Compared to the previous books, I felt less chemistry between the two MCs, which of course could just be down to me personally.

Check out Mixed Signals, and discover what happens when you finally straighten out the mixed signals.

Happy Reading :)