The Saturday Night Supper Club Work by Carla Laureano

The Saturday Night Supper Club Work (Saturday Night Supper Club, #1)

by Carla Laureano

Denver chef Rachel Bishop has accomplished everything she’s dreamed and some things she never dared hope, like winning a James Beard Award and heading up her own fine-dining restaurant. But when a targeted smear campaign causes her to be pushed out of the business by her partners, she vows to do whatever it takes to get her life back . . . even if that means joining forces with the man who inadvertently set the disaster in motion.

Essayist Alex Kanin never imagined his pointed editorial would go viral. Ironically, his attempt to highlight the pitfalls of online criticism has the opposite effect: it revives his own flagging career by destroying that of a perfect stranger. Plagued by guilt-fueled writer’s block, Alex vows to do whatever he can to repair the damage. He just doesn’t expect his interest in the beautiful chef to turn personal.

Alex agrees to help rebuild Rachel’s tarnished image by offering his connections and his home to host an exclusive pop-up dinner party targeted to Denver’s most influential citizens: the Saturday Night Supper Club. As they work together to make the project a success, Rachel begins to realize Alex is not the unfeeling opportunist she once thought he was, and that perhaps there’s life―and love―outside the pressure-cooker of her chosen career. But can she give up her lifelong goals without losing her identity as well?

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3 of 5 stars

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I love books about food, chefs, restaurants, coffee shops etc. I love books where main characters work in food industry. I also like books about writers.
So this one checked marks about all 3 topics - food, chef, writer. What could be better, right?

Wrong. There is one thing that I didn't know going into this book - it's apparently clean christian romance. I don't have anything against it, I just don't like how was it used in the story.
Spoilery things I didn't liked:
- bible studies as a cure to alcohol problems
-othodox church portrayal/ relationship of soviet union people with religion
- portrayal of russian/soviet people and food (samovar as a gift?? wtf?? nobody does that)
- dressing up for Alex (especially after everything that was discussed in later chapters about Rachel's stepfather)
- total absence of lgbtqia+/poc characters and other religions rather than christian

I really liked writing style, plot and characters. It would've been 5 stars if it wasn't so heavily religious.

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