Recently divorced and on the verge of bankruptcy, Dahlia Woodson is ready to reinvent herself on the popular reality competition show Chef’s Special. I love this book not just because it makes me laugh out loud and tear up and fan myself-sometimes all in the same chapter-but also because it’s shown me what is possible. I didn’t know there was space in mainstream romance for that. I’m a nonbinary author, and still I never considered writing a nonbinary main character until reading this book. London’s identity does play a role in some of the conflict, but they know their worth the whole time. This is the first book I read where a nonbinary character gets their happily ever after. Building blocks.īut this book is so much more than a sum of its parts, and not just because of Anita Kelly’s skill bringing it all together. The knowledge that either of them could be eliminated from the competition at any time. More specifically, a self-critical, impulsive woman competing against a grumpy, taciturn love interest on America’s favorite reality cooking show. Stack simple building blocks together and you can make a complex, beautiful dish. This was the one.ĭahlia Woodson likes onions because they are a building block. The manuscript was one of over a hundred submissions for potential mentorship by me and an author friend. The first time I read the opening line of Love & Other Disasters, it had another title.
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