Half Baked

by Edie Bryant

This isn't what I pictured for my future.

I really do care about my boyfriend Charlie, he's been my best friend since we were teenagers. He's kind of my only friend. Which is why I said yes when he proposed. But when I imagined what getting married was going to feel like, I imagined it would be like it is in the movies. Full of passion, sparks flying, the intense feeling that you've found your soulmate. But I told myself that passionate love like that only exists in movies and books. That's how I dealt with the fact that I was settling.

And then I meet Audrey and I know that isn't true. Because she makes me feel things I never have before. All the passion I've dreamt of, I've found in her.

But what am I supposed to do about being engaged to Charlie?

I love my job at the bakery, I love my friends, I'm living a good life.
But it would be nice to have a romantic interest in my life. In my small conservative town, I've already dated all the lesbian women that live here. And none of them really struck me in any significant way. My friends tell me the only way to meet more women is to move out of town but I can't do that. I've got the bakery here and I can't exactly move my successful business.

Perhaps I don't have to, though. Because it's in my bakery that I meet Madison. When her and her fiance come in to order a wedding cake, I become enthralled with her. And she doesn't seem too interested in ordering a wedding cake... or having a wedding. But she does seem interested in me...

Can I really explore something with a woman who is soon to be married to a man?

This is a standalone lesbian romance novel with HEA ending!

Genres: Lesbian

191 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 27, 2017

About the author

Edie also writes under the pseudonyms Hayden Hunt (M/M) and Aimee Alesi (M/M).

Reviews

[Me · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another author gender-swapping books, just what we need. Had enough errors in it to show that it was once an MM romance. Have liked a few of the previous books by this author, but I'll avoid more gender-swapped crap from them.

[Mis_Reading · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was originally a MM romance that the author genderswapped and published.

I am fairly certain it was originally fanfiction before it was a book. That is not a slight against fanfiction. I have read many, many fics far better than NYT Bestsellers, fics that deserved to be published, shared, and for the author to be recognized and honored.

This is not one of those works. I DNF 20%, and considering how short the story is, that says a lot. it was very obvious the author didn't do anything besides swap pronouns, which made her cliche and negative sterotyping of characters even more ridiculous. All of the characters we unlikeable, the main character actually seems like a complete asshole, with a fiance who deserves so much better than to marry her. On top of which the utter lack of narrative build up or world building required for original fiction to introduce readers to the character and the world. We're expected to know them, and the author does nothing but moves the plot along like pieces on a game board in a most unrealistic and clunky fashion.

The writing was bad, the storytelling made me roll my eyes, and the characters were caricatures in an SNL skit. I was so utterly disappointed, because I had specific reasons I really wanted to like this book. I'm so sorry I didn't.

[Heather Henkel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick read

This was a very fast read but I enjoyed the characters. Some more editing would be nice as he/she got flipped in many places and it made it confusing.

[monika]

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