Title: overbaked
Review: Diane Mott Davidson has never met an adjective for which she couldn't find a use. Steaming, fragrant, sweet, soft...they're all here, and more. Despite likable, well-drawn characters, detailed cooking descriptions drag down a plot that's already on the edge of not-so-interesting. I did finish this novel -- all 319 paperback pages -- and am not particularly sorry I did, but never was I gripped. Near the end, a predictable self-induced crisis puts the heroine in mortal danger, from which she improbably escapes to see a neatly-wrapped conclusion in the last page or two.
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