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Book Reviews Title A Taste
For It Fiction-Net
Rating Buy It
From Amazon.co.uk - BUY
NOW! Cover
Story A trip to Ireland
to promote Australian food and wine - Maura Carmody
can't wait to get going. A week promoting
wine, then three weeks as guest chef in a top
cooking school - she's confident she can put
Lorikeet Hill, her South Australian
restaurant-winery, on the map. The wine's been
shipped, the menus tested - everything has been
planned to the last detail. But Maura has
not planned for the whirlwind of mishaps,
misunderstandings, ex-boyfriends and new rivals
that awaits her in Ireland. And with love,
like wine, you can't always predict a vintage
year. We
Say A Taste For It
was the runner up in the Poolbeg-Ireland on Sunday
'Write a Bestseller' competition, won incidentally
by Deborah Wright's Olivia's Bliss. We were
interested in seeing how good the 'nearly made it'
novel was. The setting is
good. The lead character, Maura Carmody, is
innocently likeable. Even the basic storyline has a
general 'feel good' nature to it. So why is A Taste
For It one of the most amateurish books we've seen
in quite some time? In short, it's one of the most
predictable reads we've come across. By the end of
the opening chapter, you'll have already
encountered one scene which throws the ending at
you in the opening lines. And A Taste For It is
simply littered with similar moments. All this is a
shame, because the outline of the story is good and
there's a good pace to the whole thing. It's just
too utterly predictable. Maura finds herself
reluctantly working with a colleague who she
doesn't particularly like (but, hey, guess what -
she sorta fancies him - now tell me you didn't see
that coming). And can we ever forgive a novel that
slumps to the depths of Maura and the
disliked-colleague booking into a hotel and -
horrors alive - the twin-room has been mistakenly
booked as a single room? Not
good. Review by: Rob
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