Title: Taste Test
Author:
Kelly Fiore
Published:
August 27th, 2013
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Source:
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My
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Goodreads Summary:
If you can grill it,
smoke it, or fry it, Nora Henderson knows all about it. She’s been basting baby
back ribs and pulling pork at her father’s barbeque joint since she was tall
enough to reach the counter. When she’s accepted to Taste Test, a reality-television teen cooking competition, Nora can’t
wait to leave her humble hometown behind, even if it means saying good-bye to
her dad and her best friend, Billy. Once she’s on set, run-ins with her
high-society roommate and the maddeningly handsome—not to mention talented—son
of a famous chef, Christian Van Lorten, mean Nora must work even harder to
prove herself. But as mysterious accidents plague the kitchen arena, protecting
her heart from one annoyingly charming fellow contestant in particular becomes
the least of her concerns. Someone is conducting real-life eliminations, and if
Nora doesn’t figure out who, she could be next to get chopped for good.
With romance and intrigue as delectable as the winning recipes included in the story, this debut novel will be devoured by all.
With romance and intrigue as delectable as the winning recipes included in the story, this debut novel will be devoured by all.
My
Thoughts:
I was looking forward
to reading Taste Test, I knew that it was going to be exactly what I thought it
would be an easy, fun read. It definitely was, I didn't love this one but, I
did enjoy it. The plot didn't blow me away and there wasn't much that surprised
me or any huge twist but, it was a great
and light read and I had fun reading it.
Nora Henderson loves
to cook for as long as she can remember, her Dad runs one of the most popular
barbeque restaurants in their town and Nora has worked their her whole
life. Her and her best friend Billy are
addicted to the teen reality show Taste Test, where a group of teenagers
compete against each other to cook the
best dishes to win a chance to receive a scholarship and learn from the best
chef's at a Paris culinary college. Billy finally convinces Nora to apply to be
on the show and to her surprise she makes it onto the show. But, once she gets to the set of the
show she finds out that it's not as easy as she thought it was going to be,
from her rich roommate who believes she
better than everyone else to the boy she has a love- hate relationship with
Christian Van Lorten, who just happens to be the son of one of the most famous
chef's in the world and thinks he is god's gift to the world. To add to the
pressure there have been mysterious accidents happening in the kitchens during
their challenges which is eliminating
some of Nora's best friends from the competition and she is determined to get
to the bottom of it.
Nora was such a strong character and she had the perfect
personality for someone who was going to be on a reality show, she was strong
and competitive. She wasn't afraid of confrontation and she wasn't going to let guys like
Christian just slip by because of who they were. She wanted to show everyone
how great she was at cooking and just because she made barbeque didn't mean she
couldn't come up with new and inventive ideas for new recipes and she dreamed
about being able to learn from the best in Paris.
My favorite part was
getting to see bits and pieces behind the scenes of the reality show, it reminded me how staged they are that
although they are supposed to be about real life, everything is still filmed
done over and over sometimes. At the end of each chapter there was usually
interviews with each of the contestants and the pushed the contestants to
answer questions about how they felt
about other contestants, their feelings and it made me realize that it's not a
real as it feels sometimes.
Taste Test was a fun
read, it kept my attention and it made me smile and I loved reading about all
of the different recipes the contestants came up with, at the end of the book
they had a bunch of the recipes for the dishes that were made in the book and I
am definitely going to try a couple out myself for fun!
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I love reading about cooking in books so I'm excited to give this a read. I will just expect something cute and then my expectations should be manageable.
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