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A review by piepieb
The Art of Baking Blind by Sarah Vaughan
3.0
The author's take on the show The Great British Bake Off, a show I've never seen, but I love anything to do with the Food Network, so it probably sounds like something I would watch.
I loved the British narrator, and the story o would have to give 3 1/2 stars. The four female contestants - Vicki, Claire, Jenny, Karen - all seem a little bit similar at first but over time you start to distinguish their characters. The single male contestant, Mike, had so much potential, and I don't think he was given as much story space as he could have, and definitely not as much as the women.
It's hard to pick a favorite character, but I know I didn't really like Vicki. She indulged her whiny little son far too much. Jenny put up with her husband for far too long, and so maybe Claire was my favorite - she deserved all the good things she could get.
I did like the flashbacks to Kathleen Eaden's life in the '60s, as an aspiring cookbook author and as she suffers miscarriage after miscarriage.
All in all, not a bad story. As a major foodie, I loved all the bits about food - what the dishes the characters made looked like and what they tasted like.
I loved the British narrator, and the story o would have to give 3 1/2 stars. The four female contestants - Vicki, Claire, Jenny, Karen - all seem a little bit similar at first but over time you start to distinguish their characters. The single male contestant, Mike, had so much potential, and I don't think he was given as much story space as he could have, and definitely not as much as the women.
It's hard to pick a favorite character, but I know I didn't really like Vicki. She indulged her whiny little son far too much. Jenny put up with her husband for far too long, and so maybe Claire was my favorite - she deserved all the good things she could get.
I did like the flashbacks to Kathleen Eaden's life in the '60s, as an aspiring cookbook author and as she suffers miscarriage after miscarriage.
All in all, not a bad story. As a major foodie, I loved all the bits about food - what the dishes the characters made looked like and what they tasted like.