Sugarlips by Katana CollinsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I was provided an ARC of this book via the author in exchange for an honest review.
This is a standalone, but I highly recommend reading Beefcakes first. This story stands on it's own, but the timeline of this story overlaps at times with that of Beefcakes. Having read Beefcakes first will help you to understand what is going on with Elaina and Neil and how they resolved their relationship issues. We don't see any of that on the page here, they kind of breakup, fall apart, and are back together with no explanation in this book. If you have read Beefcakes you don't need any explanation as to what happened, if you haven't you may be feel like you are a little bit in the dark with that situation.
This follows Liam and Chloe, siblings of the main characters of Beefcakes. Chloe has just found out that her fiance has been cheating on for the duration of their relationship, despite the fact that she quite her job and tried to be the perfect woman for him. In an effort to ease her breakup pain, local baker, Liam brings her some donuts on the night of her breakup. Liam and Chloe then somehow end up running a food truck together selling all manner of comfort food that one might want after a messy breakup. Liam has always wanted to run a food truck, but he's been busy helping keep his family's bakery afloat, but once Chloe gets and idea she is determined to make it happen. Their truck starts to gain some media attention, and everyone assumes they are also a couple. Faking a relationship with each other isn't that difficult, but when they both start to have feelings for each other things start to spiral out of control.
One of the character development arcs I loved about Beefcakes that is also present in this book is characters not changing who they are to be in a relationship. Chloe is known around town as being "Tasmanian Chloe", because she enters into a situation bringing chaos with her. With her ex-fiancé, she tried to put her chaotic alter ego in a box, changing up her appearance to suit his more sedate tastes and expectations of his future wife. Everyone around her thinks she is impulsive and leaves nothing but destruction in her wake, everyone but Liam. Liam doesn't want her to change her ways or her appearance, he is drawn to her unpredictability and passion. Liam on the other hand is pretty reliable, helping to run his families bakery and never asking for help. He has help and co-dependency confused and it takes him some time to come to terms that it is OK to need people and let them share your burdens. Watching the two of them come to terms with some of their flaws and fall in love was really sweet, and also fun. Their banter was really great. I also loved that Chloe finally came to terms with who she really was. She shed the baggage of the cheating fiancé, the terrible best friend, and found a job that really suited her.
Overall this was a really fun story with a really fun setting. I really liked the food truck setting. I myself love to bake and secretly would love to open my own bakery. For now I just do it for fun and my family. I really loved these two characters and hope to see more about the Evans family. I really want to know what Finn is getting up to at all those appointments and I'd love to see a book about Addy.
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This is a standalone, but I highly recommend reading Beefcakes first. This story stands on it's own, but the timeline of this story overlaps at times with that of Beefcakes. Having read Beefcakes first will help you to understand what is going on with Elaina and Neil and how they resolved their relationship issues. We don't see any of that on the page here, they kind of breakup, fall apart, and are back together with no explanation in this book. If you have read Beefcakes you don't need any explanation as to what happened, if you haven't you may be feel like you are a little bit in the dark with that situation.
This follows Liam and Chloe, siblings of the main characters of Beefcakes. Chloe has just found out that her fiance has been cheating on for the duration of their relationship, despite the fact that she quite her job and tried to be the perfect woman for him. In an effort to ease her breakup pain, local baker, Liam brings her some donuts on the night of her breakup. Liam and Chloe then somehow end up running a food truck together selling all manner of comfort food that one might want after a messy breakup. Liam has always wanted to run a food truck, but he's been busy helping keep his family's bakery afloat, but once Chloe gets and idea she is determined to make it happen. Their truck starts to gain some media attention, and everyone assumes they are also a couple. Faking a relationship with each other isn't that difficult, but when they both start to have feelings for each other things start to spiral out of control.
One of the character development arcs I loved about Beefcakes that is also present in this book is characters not changing who they are to be in a relationship. Chloe is known around town as being "Tasmanian Chloe", because she enters into a situation bringing chaos with her. With her ex-fiancé, she tried to put her chaotic alter ego in a box, changing up her appearance to suit his more sedate tastes and expectations of his future wife. Everyone around her thinks she is impulsive and leaves nothing but destruction in her wake, everyone but Liam. Liam doesn't want her to change her ways or her appearance, he is drawn to her unpredictability and passion. Liam on the other hand is pretty reliable, helping to run his families bakery and never asking for help. He has help and co-dependency confused and it takes him some time to come to terms that it is OK to need people and let them share your burdens. Watching the two of them come to terms with some of their flaws and fall in love was really sweet, and also fun. Their banter was really great. I also loved that Chloe finally came to terms with who she really was. She shed the baggage of the cheating fiancé, the terrible best friend, and found a job that really suited her.
Overall this was a really fun story with a really fun setting. I really liked the food truck setting. I myself love to bake and secretly would love to open my own bakery. For now I just do it for fun and my family. I really loved these two characters and hope to see more about the Evans family. I really want to know what Finn is getting up to at all those appointments and I'd love to see a book about Addy.
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