{"id":17578,"date":"2021-07-17T13:35:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T17:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=17578"},"modified":"2022-09-30T09:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:38:19","slug":"rosaline-palmer-takes-the-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/17578","title":{"rendered":"Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake<\/a><\/em> (2021) Alexis Hall<\/a> (Winner Bakes All)<\/p>\n

\"Rosaline<\/a>Rosaline Palmer gave up medical school to become a single mother. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe last bold thing I did was decide I was keeping the baby, and while I\u2019m glad I did, as decisions go it\u2019s not exactly been without consequences.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She loves her daughter, and manages, mostly, but wants something more.<\/p>\n

The problem is she isn’t sure she wants what her parents want for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to be famous. I just want\u2026 enough money to pay for some things and enough people to think I\u2019m good at baking that I might be able to get a slightly better job.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cTruly. Yours is a hubris of Homeric proportions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are some fascinating things in this story, from Rosie being a single mother, to her being bisexual but ending up dating a guy, which, I honestly understand why Alexis did this, since bisexuality often ends up demonized in the straight and gay communities, but that thread felt heavy-handed at times.<\/p>\n

Another thing I found fascinating is that several of the unspoken rules of romance were broken, but of course I can’t talk about them without giving away important parts of the story. So–I really like that thing Alexis did. ;) <\/p>\n

And I was really pleased with Amelie in the story. She isn’t a plot moppet and also comes across as an actual kid.<\/p>\n

Amelie beamed up at her not, if Rosaline was honest, looking hugely like she\u2019d missed her times very much at all. \u201cI had a lovely weekend with Auntie Lauren and we played games and watched television and made sandwiches and\u201d\u2014 she cast Lauren a conspiratorial glance\u2014\u201c I always went to bed on time and ate very healthily.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And as expected, lots of amusing dialog.<\/p>\n

And besides, the quiet ones always go like a train.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not totally convinced I want a train in my vagina.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI said like a train. Meaning powerful and enduring.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t use public transport much, do you?\u201d asked Rosaline, laughing. \u201cYou say train to me, and I think overcrowded, endlessly delayed, and subject to constant technical failures.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll be honest–there was a lot of buzz about this story, and I went in afraid it wouldn’t live up to the hype–or to some of my other favorite Alexis books–but it was good, and I enjoyed it very much.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Forever
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (2021) Alexis Hall (Winner Bakes All) Rosaline Palmer gave up medical school to become a single mother. \u201cThe last bold thing I did was decide I was keeping the baby, and while I\u2019m glad I did, as decisions go it\u2019s not exactly been without consequences.\u201d She loves her daughter, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,30,292,48,24,204,148,26,56],"tags":[227,402],"class_list":["post-17578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-british","category-ebook","category-female","category-food","category-good","category-queer","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-alexis-hall","tag-baking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-4zw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13531,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13531","url_meta":{"origin":17578,"position":0},"title":"For Real","author":"Michelle","date":"October 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"For Real (2018) Alexis Hall (Spires) This was really really not my thing. 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