Review: Courtship of the Cake by Jessica Topper

Courtship of the Cake was not what I expected. It was a good, well written book, but the emotions were heavier than a book about cake should be.

We meet Dani, a travelling massage therapist; Nash, a famous musician; and Mick, a bakery owner.  Dani and Mick met in New Orleans when he crashed her sister’s wedding and formed an instant connection that circumstances didn’t allow to flourish. A year later, she is working the same music festival as Nash when she ends up working for him to help with a medical condition. Being Nash’s personal therapist leads to her helping him with other aspects of his life and back to Mick, who was one of Nash’s childhood friends.

Dani was an easy character to like. She was pretty easy going, caring, and seemed to be everyone’s port in the storm. Nash and Mick were much harder to like at first; they were both more complex and dealing with a lifetime of issues. To be honest, I never quiet understood why Dani agreed to help Nash in the first place.

Nash brings Dani to his home town where he wants to get to know his son. Once they arrive, we see several different relationships develop and grow. The stories are interesting and intriguing to watch, but there is also an unfinished feeling and a sense that no one is really being honest. By then end of the book, things made more sense, but I still wasn’t really comfortable with how everything was handled.

Courtship of the Cake is the second book in the Much “I Do” About Nothing series. I have not read the first book in the series and I don’t know if that would have helped or not, but this book and I didn’t really click.