Review: The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

4.5 Star review for Louise Miller’s The city Baker’s Guide to Country Living. I’d like to than Netgalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

The main character Livvy is a pastry chef living in Boston. She works in a club, has a boyfriend that’s married, she has abandonment issues, and when things starts getting to tough for her, she’s does the thing she does best and that’s to run away from her problems. One night while working at the club, she’s bakes an Baked Alaska, and in the process catch’s the club on fire. As her true nature comes out when things happen and she doesn’t want or know how to deal with them, she runs to her best friend Hannah, who lives in this picture perfect Vermont town. Once there Livvy takes a job at Sugar Maple B & B. She starts making friends, enjoying her life and for the first time puts down roots in this small town and for once in her life feels like she has a place to call home.

Livvy’s journey is warmhearted, fun, tricky, and at times very humorous. The author did a wonderful job of creating the characters that were easy to connect with. She brought them to life as though they are real a person instead of just character’s in a book. The descriptions of the town and the smells are as through you can actually see them and smell them. One thing I would say is that I probably gained twenty pounds just reading this book when she described the food or mentioned it, so I would suggest you have a snack at your ready while reading this books, it will make you hungry, also it wouldn’t hurt to have some tissues next to you as well, there are some tear-jerker parts in the book. The pace of the book was a nice reading pace, one to where you wanted to keep reading and not miss a second of the book.

For this being a debut novel, it happens to be one of the best debut novels that I’ve read this year. I would encourage people to go out and purchase this book and just have a fun time reading it. It’s well worth it.


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