Icing on the Cake

Good read, but slightly dissatisfied

I liked the story a lot, as it was pretty unique with the whole complicated divorce, advertising agency and bakery controversy. It was entertaining and a real page turner. However, there are some unresolved issues that bugged me, especially the missing explanation about Brandi's house. It also ended kind of abruptly.

A reviewer

Icing on the Cake is a predictable story about love triangles, family drama, and girls vs. other girls. While it is interesting to see Liz and Shemar run her successful bakery, the rest of the plot falls a little flat, with nothing new or exciting to offer. Even the steamy sex scenes with food scout Marcus, and the catfights with the second Mrs. Talbot- while entertinaing- do not seem deserved. A quick and breezy beach read.

delightful middle age chick lit romance

Tired of advertising and even more so of her spouse Ted, Liz Talbot returns to her Jersey Girl roots when her grandparents move to Phoenix leaving her the Bagel Emporium in Upper Montclair as always supportive Ted ditched his now physically laboring spouse for Brandi, a younger yuppie model. Meanwhile after five years of baking with carbs in spite of the bakery¿s public enemy number one Atkins and other diet fads, her enterprise is in financial trouble. Ted proves much more supportive in death than in life as Mr. Ad Agency accidentally dies, but never changed his will from Talbot wife one to Talbot wife two. Thus Liz owns a failing ad agency to go along with her failing bakery while the outraged widow two files lawsuits faster than bagels can be made with the substance of the middle of a bagel. Thus she owns two businesses going under while also caring as the sandwich generation for her twin daughters and her mom. Liz obtains a respite when she meets an attractive hunk at a wedding, but soon marks him as off limits after she slept with him since he is food consultant Marcus James, who could make or break her beloved bakery and might assume her guilty of using him. --- Poking jabs at America¿s diet flavor of the month, ICING ON THE CAKE is a delightful middle age chick lit romance starring a wonderful bread maker whose first person perspective is amusing yet poignant as she observes the chaos that revolves around her threatening to engulf her like a black hole. Liz makes the tale as she struggles with her two businesses, her relatives, her late ex husband¿s widow, and her heart with the ICING ON THE CAKE being the cat fight. --- Harriet Klausner

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