Betsy St. Amant
Revell, 2021
384 pages
Amazon Description: 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?
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Listen, I think we can all agree that tacos for two sounds like perfection, which is why you can even get a shirt to match the book title we are talking about today. Tacos for Two is the second books I have read by Betsy St. Amant, and I liked this one just as much as the other one. She is great at writing characters that feel true to life, and incorporating food into her stories! Any book that mixes romance and recipes has a high chance of being a hit with me.
I loved the back and forth between Rory and Jude, especially because it highlighted her point that we all contain multitudes. They behaved one way online and another way in person, but were being authentic in both circumstances which I thought was really interesting.
Tacos for Two has a great plot that keeps moving the whole time as the characters change and grow. Rory and Jude’s relationship is complicated, like many real relationships, but there is a happy, satisfying ending. Two thumbs up for Tacos for Two!
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