#Review ~ Turning Up the Heat by Lizzy Hunter #ElizabethHunter #LizzyHunter @EHunterWrites #Romance

 

ASIN: ‎ B0D217MQY4
Publisher: ‎ Recurve Press, LLC
Publication date: ‎ May 14, 2024
Print length: 338 pages

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About the Book:

If you can’t take the heat, get out of his kitchen.

Kelsey Rankin has worked for years to earn her reputation as one of the best writers at California’s top food-and-wine journal. She’s left her rural roots in wine country and moved to the city to pursue her dreams.

Then a work trip back home to cover the wine harvest puts her right in the path of Chef Oskar Olson, an internationally recognized chef and the newest resident of her hometown.

Oskar knew he wanted a break from big-city life when he moved to a small town. He wants to make his restaurant one that people talk about, and a review from Kelsey’s magazine might push his restaurant into the spotlight.

One explosive night could change everything for these two culinary hotshots and make them question everything they think they want.

Turning Up the Heat is a steamy, stand-alone romance for lovers of sizzling chemistry, mouthwatering food, and sweet happily-ever-afters.

My Review:

Turning Up the Heat is a wonderful contemporary romance featuring Kelsey Rankin, a food writer, and Oskar Olson, internationally recognized chef. Oskar is living in Kelsey's hometown, and Kelsey moved out prior to his arrival, and landed in the city. When they finally meet when work brings her back home, spark fly and the chemistry between the two is undeniable. 

I loved everything about this book. The realism behind Kelsey and Oskar's long-distance relationship took me down memory lane. I met my husband 17 years ago (on MySpace) and we lived an hour-and-a-half away from each other. We worked different shifts (I worked 10am-7pm) and he worked 3rd shift (10pm-7am) so talking during the week was difficult. We emailed each other for a while before moving to phone calls/texts, and I didn't have a computer. In order to talk to him for the first couple weeks, I had to go the library (about a block from my townhouse) before work to check my emails. We decided to move to the exchanging phone numbers stage and that made things a little easier. I'd call him in the morning before I left for work, and he'd call me at night before he left for work and I went to bed. I love it when scenes in books coincide with an event that happed in my life. It draws me closer to the characters and I can definitely better relate to them. 

Elizabeth Hunter is one of my all-time favorite authors. Everything she writes is phenomenal. She has writing skills that draw the reader in from the very beginning. When I was originally approached to review the ARC of A Hidden Fire (Elemental Mysteries, Book One) in 2011, never did I expect as much literary power to come from within the pages of a brand-new author. Every single book I've read from Elizabeth Hunter since then carries that same power. I have been mesmerized by her books from the very beginning.

I was provided a copy of this book.

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