Melissa (Trying to Catch Up)'s Reviews > Take a Chance on Me

2.5 rounded up
I generally love Moran's books, but this one was kind of a mess. The overall premise was cute, but it wasn't really uplifting for me, it was honestly a bit sad.
There were two main problems I had with the book.
The first one is that there were way too many stories. I think this would have made a MUCH better series with each book (or even novella) focusing on a different sister. As it was, there were just too many side stories with the various sisters that took away from the main storyline, and the side stories weren't given the thoughtfulness that they needed for as heavy and dramatic as they were (near-affairs, infertility, decisions about having children at all, etc).
The second problem was that the whole love triangle thing was just awful, depressing, and I was never so glad as when Emma finally had it out with Bridget and told her how she felt about the deception. That made me like the book more for its honesty. Added to this Emma's martyrdom and her weird decision at the end to forego even dating a guy she was attracted to...meh.
There were some funny parts and I love books that feature bakeries, but mostly this book just didn't really work. Hopefully the next read I have by Moran will be better.