I love shows about food- baking shows, game shows, cooking shows; if it’s on Food Network I’m going to watch it. One of my favorite shows is Robert Irvine’s Restaurant: Impossible, so when I read the synopsis of this book, I knew it was a must read.
Taking place in Sweden Nora is the owner of the patisserie that’s been in her family for generations. Sadly business is doing terribly and unless she can come up with a fast solution, she’s going to have to shut down. On what seems like a miracle, the day she discovers how dire things are she also receives an email saying she was chosen to be on s restaurant renovation show called Let’s Get Baking. Nora knows she has to do the show regardless of the fact that the host, Henrik, is a pompous a** and the producers want her to change everything that makes her bakery what it is. She knows she’s going to have to decide if she’s better off moving from tradition or closing for good. Additionally, there is a secondary story of Nora’s grandmother when she first immigrated to Sweden from Finland in the early 1940’s.
I really wanted to like this book but it was just meh. It was extremely predictable and there was way too much drama going on. While I loved the descriptions of everything, overall this book just didn’t hit the mark for me.
Thank you to NetGalley and Amazon Crossing for an advanced copy of this. Time to Rise hit the shelves on September 17th.