In just one month, I had read 3 foodies title and two of them featuring celebrity chef or cooking competition reality show, including A Taste of Heaven. A coincidence? I think not. What make A Taste of Heaven feel different is this is the second I read romance featured people in their 50-ish. Both Sophia Brown and Elliot Adamson is past of their forties. Both are widow and widower. Elliot have three ex-wives that with reader follow the story, they know that Elliot sacrifice his family for his career. Sophie is still grieving for a year after her husband dead, her taste become dull and her world just become gray. Her daughter decide to enroll her to the cooking reality show for amateurs (think Master Chef) in hope to liven her up. We also know that half of her life, Sophia is your perfect picture of an obedient housewives. So, when she got into competition with Elliot, things get awry so fast since the core them of the competition is to paired up amateur chef with the professional ones and to said that Elliot was pissed of is an understatement.

Two people with different upbringing and clash each time when the cooking theme announced. Yet, Sophia manage to tame Elliot's temper and Elliot bring the best of Sophia. I liked the banter between Sophia and Elliot and to see how Sophia changed to be a woman that dared to voice her opinion yet still manage to be gentle and motherly is fascinating. However, Elliot is still...Elliot. Still hot-headed, temperamental almost to the end while his character development feel like too fast. I also don't get his hot and cold attitude and when he seduce Sophia somehow it feel come out of nowhere since he spent his time in this book by angry all the time and become a grumpy Scottish. Although his behavior in seducing Sophia get explained in the end. If you a fans of slow burn, both Sophia and Elliot is anything but. They got entangled very fast and just in matter of days. Yep, pretty much insta-love and insta-lust. While I know both Sophia and Elliot is in their almost fifties, reading their sex scenes didn't feel icky or like reading your parents have sex, lel :P.

The strength of this book is in the relationship between Sophia and her two daughter, Cady and Emilia. Reading the positive mother-daughter relationship make me green with envy, lol. I love how supportive Cady and Emilia to Sophia, and also how they can accept Elliot and in the end help that grumpy Scottish. I also liked the description of the food that Watson write. A warning, don't read this book in the middle of the night since they will make your stomach grumbling and your mouth salivating while you try to resist the temptation to eat past your bed time, lol. Although, the theme of the cooking competition with its continuous twists make me rolling my eyes while I know it's purpose is for TV ratings.

This book is pretty much low in angst. So it's perfect if you want to read a contemporary romance with cooking competition or foodies romance in general.