Such a silly, fluffy romance full of nonsense and beautiful food illustrations (which are my favorite 🤩)! I loved seeing Ben stumble into this restaurant position and discovering a passion for cooking that he didn’t explore while getting his degree in English. This exploration of future potential was a lot of fun. I wasn’t a huge fan of the chef’s emotional abuse but otherwise a great cast of characters.

So cute! I wish there was more to the story!

Borrowed from KU.

An enjoyable story, but still pretty simplistic in the character development outside of Ben and Liam. The side-characters were mostly one-note, though the shortness of the graphic novel didn't help that at only 160 pages. It was nice to see Ben develop as the story went on, and the last page of the main story was pretty darn cute. 

This graphic novel is cute yet entertaining. What I love about this book is... this book can give motivation to someone who just finished college to don't give up if you have a dream to know what's worth to begin with yourself; looking for job that suitable to your own passion to make you happy.

the pig timer in the bonus materials. no joke that bumped up my review a whole quarter star.
but overall it was fine, a short fluffy read, nothing really groundbreaking. a lot of the story felt like an RPG, like maybe a city-set Stardew Valley, which i enjoyed. the inclusion of a Shaggy-like stoner-with-the-munchies roommate was interesting (that's all i have to say about him). i think that after reading One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston, my standards for city-living romances with roommate side characters have gone way up, and i know not every story that falls into this category will make as much use of its roommate characters, but i still know what's out there. the romance aspect didn't have very much payoff but i didn't really mind. also, can i just say, i am tired of reading queer romances about skinny/ripped white men.
cover review: ★★★★½. it's cute, especially the bag of vegetables. i get that the books in one hand and ingredients in the other represent his internal conflict, but like, eh. Watson (the pig) is adorable, i love the arrow, which is glossy on the physical edition 👌. the font for the title is not my favorite, like the grainy texture, the color, the unusual "K"; and i'm not sure about the choice of background color.

SO!!!! ADORABLE!!!!! I wanted more honestly, this felt too short.

And I stan Watson 🥺💖🐷