Whisked Away

Genella
deGrey
ISBN Number: 
978-1781840467
Genre: 
Historical

Virginia Clark has big dreams.  Not only does she want to become America's premier Pastry Chef,  she wants to be the first woman to do it.  No small task for a female, to be sure - especially one who harbors a very healthy curiosity about the male of the species!
Under the loving (and curious) eye of childhood sweetheart Rory, Ginny travels to France for a summer apprenticeship under a Master Chef.  With Rory as her chaperone and posing as her assistant, she will do whatever it takes to prove to her host, Monsieur Leroux, that being a woman and a chef are not mutually exclusive.  Can she win the Sweepstakes title and Rory's heart as well?
Genella deGrey is back, this time with a feisty romp through 1880s Paris, with an anachronistic pair of lovers unfettered by the constraints of their time.    The heroine longs to be a chef, and the hero longs for the heroine. Historical accuracy is not Ms. deGrey's strong point.  She assuredly has the chops to write romance, but HR readers are a tough crowd.  A single man "chaperoning" a single young woman, alone, across the Atlantic?  Simply not done.  And the same man posing as her assistant?  Stretches incredulity for this reviewer, and as a result, makes it hard to be engaged by the characters.  Readers who are not concerned with such things, and simply want to read a romance set in Paris between a chef-in-training and her childhood sweetheart, will be delighted with this effort.
Tammy Grant