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This was a cute read, but there was too much baking and not enough romance. That said, I didn't enjoy how much instalove there was. I liked that the main characters were both older than the average romantic leads, and I loved Tori's relationship with her kids. I'd definitely read more from this author, despite this not being a favorite.

Give me food, give me drama, give me gay!! This book was an absolute joy - I love how this is a sapphic story about women in their forties as they deal with the curveballs in life and find the courage to take on new dreams. It's fun and lighthearted, with the elements of forbidden love brought on by legally binding contracts prohibiting fraternization, and the ups and downs of reality television.

Wonderful rom-com about an at home baker/teacher who has been signed up by her children to compete on a popular baking show. I enjoyed meeting Tori and Kendra and following their different paths during the course of the story.

Loved it so much! I did expect a little more romance but loved the bake-off competition. I really enjoyed the character development and I highly recommend

First off, I'd like to start off by thanking NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for the e-book ARC in exchange for my honest review!
This was a solid 3.5 star read for me as we follow along Tori's adventures on set of Bake-O-Rama, the American TV baking competition show. What I enjoyed about this book was being able to see Tori and Kendra's character development throughout the show as well as the character development of some of the people Tori meets along the way.
All of that being said, this book is marketed as a romance, when I'd say maybe a quarter of it is and the rest is the baking competition show. Idk if it was because I was looking for more romance, but because of that it left me disengaged at times and was a little difficult to get through at certain points. Additionally, there were a few side characters that just felt very 1 dimensional to me and weren't fully fleshed out imo.
If you want to read the details of a baking competition show with a romance sprinkled in here and there, this book is for you. I'd recommend for those that aren't looking for an in-depth romance, but still looking for something light and fluffy. Loved the conclusion to this story, just wish we saw a bit more throughout.
Thank you again NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group! Love at 350° is officially out on October 10th, 2023!

This was fantastic. I loved the characters, setting, atmosphere, and everything about this book. It was a true 5 star read.

I was unaware of the subject of the book but read it anyway. It was about the story of Kendra and Tori. To me the best thing was the Bake off show

WOW!! Lovers of food network and reality TV rejoice! This book was all kinds of wonderful - even though it made me hungry at times. ;)
I appreciated how honest the writing felt and the perspectives of both Tori and Kendra throughout the novel. Lisa Peers’ writing paints a quiet love between the two that isn’t as prominent these days in the romance market so I was pleasantly delighted. The competitive twists and turns also added great stakes to the novel and had me on the edge of my seat wondering how it was all going to play out.
Overall a fantastic book for those who love what’s behind the curtain of their favourite reality shows, food network fanatics, or just all around soft romance. Excited to read more from Peers in the future!

4.25 ⭐️
This is such a cute and fun sapphic baking competition book. Tori is a high school teacher who loves to bake and was cheated on by her wife. She has two teens about to go off to college and they enroll her into the bake-o-roma show to help make her dreams come true of owning her own bake shop. Tori is so kind and just a beautiful person inside and out. I just loved her character and found her to be so comforting and honestly mothering in the best way.
Kendra is a badass baker who has had to put up a wall to make it in the male dominated field. She is trying to save her restaurant by judging the competition show again this year. Kendra's character growth in the book was amazing to see and I loved seeing her break down her walls and let people in.
Like many others, I found the romance aspect of the book to be really lacking and it could have been more balanced that way but I loved the characters, side characters and felt like I was watching a bake show which always brings me a sense of peace. If you go in knowing the romance is light and the bake show and characters are great I think you might love it too!

I dnf'ed this one. The writing style wasn't for me, but I hope someone else enjoys it! I recently read a cooking contemporary romance that left a bad taste in my mouth, and reading this one back to back didn't feel like it was giving the story a fair chance of me enjoying it.

Th baking competition seemed to be the main plot and romance as the sun plot. Where as the blurb makes it seem like romance would be the forefront. That’s my main complaint. So not that big of deal so let’s get to the positives, the baking competition so fun! The characters, adorable and easily relatable, easily formed a connection to them. So if you’re in the market for a fun baking competition, with a dash of romance (pun intended) this would be a great choice for you!

For lovers of cooking competition shows, delicious sounding food, and slow burn sapphic romance, this is the book for you. Both Tori and Kendra are at turning points in their lives. Tori's children are about to go to college and she will be left with an empty nest and a career that might not be as fulfilling as it was. And Kendra has a job she doesn't entirely enjoy that funds her passions, but her passions may still be failing after all. But when Tori's children nominate her to be a contestant on American Bake-o-Rama, the baking competition show that Kendra is a judge of, the two find they have a lot more in common than one would realize and a connection builds. But with contracts and the competition in the way, can they find a way back to each other?
Generally slow burns are not my favorites, but the pining, the secret notes stashed away, and the eventual union of Tori and Kendra made for a very fun story. Cooking competition sapphic romances is a weird niche I've found myself into and I love it. I would have liked a little more time with Tori and Kendra together, however I do understand that that build up and pining is part of the what makes this story special. it's as much about the food and the joy that food brings us as it is about their eventual union.

I could not put this book down! I loved the characters and loved the cooking show setting! It was pleasantly surprising to read a chaste sapphic romance! I believe that’s a first for me. The baking descriptions were so much fun and I found myself rooting for all the contestants throughout the story. Loved it, loved it, loved it!

a cute and charming romcom that was delightful.
thank you to netgalley and to the publisher for this review copy.

This one didn’t quite work for me. I was more interested in the cooking show than I was the romance. Not the best sign for a romance…
Not for me but I’m sure it will be amazing for someone else!

Tori has always wanted to open her own bakery, but life got in the way. And she's happy with her life, she is...but when her almost-adult kids sign her up to audition for a baking competition show, this might be the change she's been needing. Under the watchful (and very judgmental) eye of Kendra, one of the celebrity chefs who judges the show, Tori does her best to beat the competition.
Kendra has long felt like something is missing in her life, and now she's facing losing her restaurant, the most important thing in it. But one of the contestants on this year's show almost makes her feel some hope... so she breaks the non-fraternizing rules, just a bit, and leaves Tori notes in her weekly gifts from the studio.
I was expecting Love at 350 to be a little more romance-centered--it's a very slow burn, and the romance definitely takes a back seat to the baking and to the issues in both women's lives. I would definitely consider this more on the women's fiction side than a Romance.
It felt like everything wrapped up a bit neatly at the end, and I was expecting the fact that they were breaking the rules to be a bigger deal, but I loved that these two women in their 40s got their happy ending--we need more romance focused on people this age.

I loved the premise of this one - it sounded like a cute read! But I was looking for a true romance book, and this isn't it, so I DNF'ed. Lots of focus on the cooking show which was cute, but less heavy on the romance for a "romance" book.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. All views are my own.

Thank you so much to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC of this book. All opinions are my own.
This was such a fun read! I really enjoyed it. It was a great palette cleanser from all the fantasy and I can't wait to read more of Lisa's work! Also, this cover is super cute! I love it!

I cannot get enough of cooking show romance novels. Make it sapphic and include characters who are middle age, I just might explode. This needs to be made into a Hallmark movie asap. Highly recommend.
Random House Publishing Group - Random House, Dial Press Trade Paperback, and NetGalley for providing an eARC for a honest review.

Thanks to Random House Publishing Group - Random House, Dial Press Trade Paperback and NetGalley for the advanced readers copy!
Tori is a home chef and chemistry teacher who teaches a baking class. She's gone through a terrible break up when her kids sign her up to audition for a baking show.
Kendra is a chef with a success cookie business and a restaurant. She begrudgingly accepts a hosting gig on a baking show to help shore up the restaurant.
As soon as Tori and Kendra meet, sparks fly. If only there wasn't an anti-fraternization policy in the way! They soon resort to letters to get to know each other a little better. Can Tori win the baking show and get her happily ever after?
This book was a spice free sapphic romance. I found the plot to be too slow and far too heavily focused on the actual baking show vs the relationship growing between Tori and Kendra. They are basically still strangers at the end of the book who have spent a total of a few minutes alone, ever. I found that aspect incredibly unrealistic. An opportunity was missed to explore their growth more!