From the TBR Pile: Blog Tour: Review of Much Ado About a Latte by Kathleen Fuller

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Blog Tour: Review of Much Ado About a Latte by Kathleen Fuller

Author: Kathleen Fuller
Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Publication Date: January 2022
Paperback: 336 pages

Anita Bedford needs to face reality. It’s time to decaffeinate the dream that she and Tanner will ever be more than friends. Growing up in small-town Maple Falls, she’s had a crush on Tanner for years. But he’ll only ever see her as good, old, dependable Anita. Now she’s finally ready to make her own goals a reality. In fact, that deserted building next door to Sunshine Diner looks like a promising location to open her own café.

Tanner Castillo may know how to operate a diner, but he doesn’t know beans about love. After pouring his life savings into buying the Sunshine Diner, he needs to keep his mind on making a success of it and supporting his widowed mother, not on kissing Anita Bedford. First order of business: improve his customers’ coffee experience. Next, he should probably find out who bought the building next door.
It’s a bitter cup to swallow when ambition turns longtime friends and coworkers Anita and Tanner into rivals. Now that they own competing businesses, how could they ever compete for each other’s hearts? Or will the two of them come to see what’s obvious to the whole, quirky town of Maple Falls: potential for a full-roast romance, with an extra splash of dream?

Welcome to Maple Falls, where everyone knows your name and has thoughts on your love life.

My thoughts:

Much Ado About a Latte is the second book in the Maple Falls series. I definitely can be read as a stand alone book. Characters from the first book show up here, but I never felt like I was missing anything. This one is Anita and Tanner's story.

I did ultimately enjoy this one. It's an adorable friends to lovers romance. Frustrating at times, but really sweet and adorable. I say frustrating because Tanner and Anita clearly are into each other and it seemed to take forever for them to get together. When they finally did, it was really sweet. The opening scene in the closet was very cute.

My only issue with the story was the portrayal of Anita's learning disability. She was in remedial math and English in High school. She kept harping on that as if it was a valid excuse for certain mistakes. Like not really being remotely prepared to open a business. That was really lack of planning and research. Despite that, I loved watching Anita and Tanner work through their feelings for each other. This is a clean and sweet romance and one I do recommend.

About the Author

With over a million copies sold, Kathleen Fuller is the USA TODAY bestselling author of several bestselling novels, including the Hearts of Middlefield novels, the Middlefield Family novels, the Amish of Birch Creek series, and the Amish Letters series as well as a middle-grade Amish series, the Mysteries of Middlefield. Visit her online at KathleenFuller.com; Instagram: @kf_booksandhooks; Facebook: @WriterKathleenFuller; Twitter: @TheKatJam.

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