Nell Stevens full length fiction debut was worth waiting for. This book was sweet & kind to it’s characters, which is not something you can say about almost any novel that comes my way. I’m not going to make any food puns here, but Lawd Knows when this book is released they are coming from every outlet.

Briefly, A Delicious Life is, sadly, another case of a gorgeous cover being wasted on an average book. Surprisingly humorous yet unbearably unemotional, Stevens failed to squeeze out the full potential of her book's premise, instead creating a dull and bland narrative that brings nothing new to the supernatural and/or historical fiction genre. What drew me in at first was the idea of the Blanca, the ghost narrator, falling in love with George, the eccentric, full of live foreigner, but this aspect of the story was underutilized and barely developed in favour of a boring narrative about George's children and lover. The tension between the family and the village folk was also incredibly unintersting, and coupling that with Blanca's backstory, which was completely unimaginative, it made for a boring read that I probably should've just DNF'ed.