Tacos For Two Review

 

Tacos for Two 

by Betsy St. Amant

Synopsis:

Rory Perez, a food truck owner who can't cook, is struggling to keep the business she inherited from her aunt out of the red--and an upcoming contest during Modest's annual food truck festival seems the best way to do it. The prize money could finally give her a solid financial footing and keep her cousin with special needs paid up at her beloved assisted living home. Then maybe Rory will have enough time to meet the man she's been talking to via an anonymous online dating site.

Jude Strong is tired of being a puppet at his manipulative father's law firm, and the food truck festival seems like the perfect opportunity to dive into his passion for cooking and finally call his life his own. But if he loses the contest, he's back at the law firm for good. Failure is not an option.

Complications arise when Rory's chef gets mono and she realizes she has to cook after all. Then Jude discovers that his stiffest competition is the same woman he's been falling for online the past month.

Will these unlikely chefs sacrifice it all for the sake of love? Or will there only ever be tacos for one?

My Take:

I knew I would love this one because I LOVE tacos and I LOVE You’ve Got Mail! From the first chapter, I was hooked. This rom-com is so super sweet and heart-warming that it was super hard to put down. I loved the diversity in the characters and the descriptions of the taco making. I myself, rarely eat from food trucks due to location but I will be on the lookout for more food truck gathering simply because of this book!

 

I actually liked all the characters in this book but Judy’s apprentice was my favorite! I’d love to see him in a follow-up or companion novel! I think he has his own story that could be told. Jude was a great character too. I saw him as a perfect Hallmark character (Hint, hint Hallmark!).

 

I love the back and forth messaging between Jude and Rory. Though I have to say that as cute as it was, Jude knowing You’ve Got Mail references is not really believable. Other than that, I felt the characters were mostly relatable and I found myself getting frustrated with them and cheering with them when the time called for it. I am definitely marking Betsy as an auto buy author for me!