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Book Review of Hot Dish

Hot Dish
Hot Dish
Author: Connie Brockway
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance
Book Type: Paperback
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After her father makes some bad investments, Jen Lind's family loses their fortune and they move to a trailer in Minnesota. Jenn will do anything to get back to her friends in Raleigh. She begins entering pageants in hopes of winning a scholarship. But her chances of becoming Buttercup Queen go down the drain when it becomes apparent she does not qualify for the pageant. Now its twenty years later and Jenn has made it big on Daytime TV as a Martha Stewart type host. When her network lines her up to be Grand Marshall in a hometown celebration, she finds that she will be sharing the honors with celebrity Steve Jaax, a man who sculpted Jenn's face into immortality on a hundred-pound block of butter.

I tried to like this story, but I just couldn't get into it. There are too many characters, too many points of view, and I just couldn't follow the plot. This is Connie Brockway's first contemporary romance. Based on this story, I hope she goes back to historicals soon. DNF.