LitPick Review
Orphaned at 13, Quincie Morris is left in the care of her
Uncle. She finds support and comfort in her werewolf best
friend and love interest Kieren. Quincie and her Uncle
manage the family's Italian restaurant. Four years after the
death of her parents, they decide to renovate the restaurant
to a vampire themed night spot. They expect that in the
unusual town of Austin Texas where Vampires and Were-people are tolerated, the vamp theme will attract and inspire all sorts of new guests. And so it does. A month before the
opening of the restaurant, the head chef Vaggio, is
viciously murdered. While bottling up all the emotion from
the death of Vaggio, Quincie must decide where her
allegiances lie. When a tantalizing new chef is hired by the
restaurant, whose shoulder will she turn to?
Opinion:
I did enjoy this book but found it a little slow and dull at times. It has a great story line. Most of the characters were
described well but others failed to grip my attention. I
loved the strained relationships and love triangle between
Quince, Kieren the new chef, Bradley Sanguini. I think the
author was clever in the way she twisted the plot and made
it hard to decide what was coming next. I felt disappointed
at the end as I expected a big ending and really got no
closure. This was an easy read that at times, fascinated and
enthralled me. I would recommend this novel to teenagers
from 12 up as a book not to taken too seriously. A
tantalizing read with all the seduction of good spaghetti
and all the fright of men in capes.
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