The Key to Love by Betsy St. Amant

 

I do enjoy a good love story. I like romance by Denise Hunter and Rachael Hauck. I've read several other Betsy St. Amant books and liked them so I thought I'd give this one a read. I did not enjoy it like I have her other books. This was just so unbelievably predictable to me. It unfolded exactly like a Hallmark Movie. I knew everything that was going to happen before it happened right down to the missing secret ingredient that Bri had tried for years to figure out. I kept saying it every time she complained about not knowing what it was. I stuck through and read this book until the almost-end. I didn't bother with the epilogue, I was pretty sure I knew how it would turn out. I'd give this one three stars. If you love Hallmark Movies you will love this book. 

About the book:

The only thing Bri Duval loves more than baking petit fours is romance. So much so, she's created her own version of the famous Parisian lovelock wall at her bakery in Story, Kansas. She never expects it to go viral--or for Trek Magazine to send travel writer Gerard Fortier to feature the bakery. He's definitely handsome, but Bri has been holding out for a love story like the one her parents had, and that certainly will not include the love-scorned-and-therefore-love-scorning Gerard.

Just when it seems Bri's bakery is poised for unprecedented success, a series of events threaten not just her business but the pedestal she's kept her parents on all these years. Maybe Gerard is right about romance. Or maybe Bri's recipe just needs to be tweaked.

Novelist Betsy St. Amant invites you to experience this sweet story of how love doesn't always look the way we expect--and maybe that's a good thing.

This book provided for review by Revell.