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Scrumptious Kindle Edition

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"In the small but expanding niche of foodie romance, Usen's debut rules the kitchen with lip—smacking prose and rowdy protagonists who put Iron Chef to shame...the pacing, emotion, and erotic exuberance all sparkle."

— Publishers Weekly

"In her superbly crafted debut, Usen blends together two realistically complicated protagonists, a well–realized culinary setting (complete with mouthwatering descriptions of food), and plenty of incendiary love scenes. The resulting literary dish is a smart, sexy, simply irresistible contemporary romance."

— Booklist

TALL, DARK & DELICIOUS

Joe Rafferty is just as mouthwatering as the food he cooks. But if he thinks he's going to waltz in and take over her kitchen, he's denser than a thick slice of chocolate ripple cheesecake. Marly has invested too much of her life in Chameleon to hand off the restaurant to someone else—especially a cocky–as–all–get–out superstar chef. But there's no denying the man knows how to light her fire. Question is: Can she have the sizzle without feeling the burn?

"The title perfectly summarizes the feel of this book. Both the main characters and the culinary dishes are described in such a way that readers can practically taste, see and feel every word. Usen has a way with words and it translates to a solid storyline with great sex scenes."

— RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars

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321 pages
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English
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
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1 January 2012
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Amanda Usen knows two things for certain: chocolate cheesecake is good for breakfast and a hot chef can steal your heart. Her husband stole hers the first day of class at the Culinary Institute of America. They live in Western New York with their three children and an ancient beagle.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006CU29RO
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sourcebooks Casablanca; Original edition (1 January 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 951 KB
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Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 321 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1402259824

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Amanda Usen has spent most of her life immersed in story—and butter, sugar, flour, and eggs. After graduating from college, she fortified her English BA with a degree from the Culinary Institute of America, figuring a professional chef would never be a starving writer. Amanda loves chocolate, yoga, and carbs in all forms. When she isn’t writing or cooking, she can usually be found reading or hanging out with her small menagerie of cats, ducks, and mostly-grown children.

Sign up for Amanda’s Newsletter or connect with her on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or her blog, Writer.Chef.Romantic., where she posts about writer-life, baker-life, mom-life, sex-life, mid-life, basically all things life…and a bag of chips. 

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Cathrina

Delectable

Reviewed in the United States on 10 November 2013

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Amanda Usen, a chef, and now a romantic author, is extremely familiar with the goings on behind those kitchen doors at a restaurant. While we sit placidly at our tables salivating for the first course to arrive, Amanda contrives an amazing story of sizzling love in the back room.

Poor Olivia, the owner of the restaurant has an unfaithful husband and is her main chef. After catching him in the supply room with the hostess being naughty, she boots him out the restaurants door. In walks her reliable and sculpted to the max friend, Joe. Joe, not only a prominent chef, but is drop dead gorgeous and has been around the block with no intention of settling for one woman.

Olivia is not into her old flame, though, her best friend, Marlene is always in the mood for a roll in the sheets. And Joe is right up her alley---no commitment!

However, the hard hitting Marlene and the love 'em and leave 'em Joe discover sex and love is fickle.

Don't be surprised if, while reading Scrumptious your mouth starts to water and your body tingles, not only from the delicious steamy moments of Joe and Marlene, but from the savory cuisine described in the book.

Joanna (Jo Reads Romance)

Unlikeable heroine ruins story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 January 2012

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Joe Rafferty isn't just an excellent chef but he's gorgeous to boot. When he agrees to help out at his friend's restaurant until she finds a full-time chef then he sees it as a great time to cook some food and make time with the lovely pastry chef, Marlene.

Marlene likes the look of Joe but if he thinks he's going to waltz into her best friend's restaurant - the place she's put her heart and soul into - and simply take over then he's got another think coming.

Soon their battle of wills turns into a battle of the heart but who will take home the sweetest prize of all?

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As someone who loves both romance novels and food - I've been keen to read stories that combine the two. Unfortunately I haven't found any that do justice to my expectations and this book was no exception.

My first, and main, complaint was about Marly. I just didn't like her. She was over-confident, happy (and proud) to sleep around, quite juvenile in her reactions and not someone I could either relate to or aspire to be like. I'm all for strong, confident women in stories but Marly's casual attitude turned me off.

Joe was a likeable character who was doing his best to make changes in his life although to be fair he wasn't particularly discerning either when it came to his relationships. His character was fairly well developed and I liked him but he certainly wasn't a hero that I would swoon over. Regardless, his relationship with Marly was, for me, clouded by the fact that I wanted him to find someone better!

The story was okay but towards the end it all went a little bit ridiculous and I was a little confused as to why it had changed for no apparent reason. I also couldn't really understand much of the tension or conflict in the book. Surely a conversation between best friends, Marly and Olivia (another unsympathetic character and owner of the restaurant) would have made much of the point of the book disappear.

Overall this wasn't my thing at all. The writing wasn't terrible which is why I've given the book 2 stars rather than 1, but it was really hard to finish and I can't recommend it, unfortunately.

DrMama

totally awesome

Reviewed in the United States on 22 October 2013

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I really liked this book and how the story had a culinary theme to it. I've never wanted chocolate more...and I LOVE chocolate. I can't wait to read her next book.

Tilda Johnston

Scrumptious indeed!

Reviewed in the United States on 8 January 2013

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I absolutely loved this story.
It was clever, hot and very intriguing. I found myself very invested in the characters which I found very easy to relate to!

XAR

An Uphill Climb to a Good Book!

Reviewed in the United States on 2 April 2014

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This book starts out kinda slow (and frankly slutty), but it does start an uphill climb into a pretty decent book! There is a minor mystery plot along with it, but what I really enjoyed seeing was how the hero and heroine grew beyond their childish pursuits into a mature, loving and sensual relationship. I'm actually on my second time around for reading it, and I enjoyed it about the same this time as I did last time. I'm interested in seeing what happens in the next book!

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