Food connoisseur Chloe Carter is on a quest for the perfect meal and man. That's why the "Gourmet Girl" accepts an online date with "Dinner Dude." Too bad he's murdered in the restaurant. Leave it to Chloe to fall in love with the chef, who's also suspect #1.
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I too just finished "Steamed" and will join the on-going debate.
I'm amazed how fast I read this book, so I will grant that it is fairly addictive once you begin reading it, however...
I found Chloe extremely annoying. She is completely self absorbed and judgemental. Somehow she got it into her head that she should solve the crime in the book and so the narrative is littered with uninteresting and LONG conversations about her perspective on the novel's events. Every character in the book revolved around her, so there was no sub-plot and I believe the book could have accomplished its story in half the time. I found the grand finale of the book particularly dissappointing. It was like Nancy Drew novels, where a series of "coincidenses" leads to the killer feeling vulnerable and instantly confesses everything. I enjoyed the romance mostly, but I thought the mystery was ill-contrived. I give the authors points for keeping me to the end, but they will have to do more to get me to read the next in the series.
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