Welcome to today's review of Sweet Indulgence by Debbie White. It was a refreshing romance to start off the new year and I hope you check it out.
1. Her spouse served in the U.S. Air Force for over 20 years. She uses some of her experiences as a military wife in some of her stories.
2. She has two granddaughters and a grandson.
3. She received her degree in Sociology in 2011 and graduated Magna Cum Laude.
4. She hasn't always dreamed of writing, but she's always loved reading and decided she'd give it a try. Her fans love her so much, she's still putting out books three years later.
Annie McPherson has had it with all the blind dates her grandmother and auntie set her up with. She just wants to be left alone to run the Sweet Indulgence cupcake bakery – even if it means she’ll remain single forever.
Jack’s just been through a gut-wrenching break-up, and women are the last thing on his mind. Now he’s on a mission to pick up cupcakes for his niece’s birthday party—not a mission to fall in love. Pulled in by Annie’s good looks and witty charm, though, temptation proves too sweet.
But will Annie’s pesky grandmother and auntie welcome Jack as Annie’s choice or will they have him jumping through hoops to prove he’s the one?
Fans of Debbie Macomber, Sherryl Woods, and Susan Wiggs are sure to love Sweet Indulgence, the first sweet romance novel in the Charleston Harbor series.
This book is too sweet to pass up! Scroll up to one click and begin your indulgence today!
Review:
The stand-out element of this book is that not a single one of the characters is a caricature. Annie and Jack meet in a normal business setting while he is helping a family member with something perfectly reasonable. (Though I will never understand this current obsession with lovelorn women opening cupcakeries, it's much more palatable than the billionaire romance to me.) The grandmother and auntie have ritual and order in their lives. Class dynamics arise and much of the book is occupied with keeping the business that is at the heart of the book running to the best of its potential.
That said, the romance escalates a bit quickly. Not 50 Shades of Grey quickly and not as slowly as the four-book Twilight build to the honeymoon, but they go from casually hanging out on a boat to French-kissing their brains out in a kind of condensed middle section of the book. It would have been more effective for the pacing if it were spread out more. And the ending just made me laugh because of the unexpected twist she throws in. I won't ruin it for you.
In general, the book made me want to make a pitcher of sweet tea and read this somewhere surrounded by people who say y'all a lot. And that is a compliment.
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