GRR Reviews No Place Like Home - Love in Seattle by Christina Butrum

No Place Like Home tries to set up an enemies to lovers/reunion scenario but the shift was way too abrupt.

Janelle wanted to bake, but she was railroaded into a journalism career by her mother. She had to get away from her home of a cafe run by her parents in Seattle, and she went all the way to Cincinnati. When her parents agreed to go on vacation, the first time in decades, Janelle came back to help out. She also ran into Colin Davis, an old rival from high school, now a reporter for a Seattle paper. She found the cafe understaffed and one of the employees is worthless. She attempted to make personnel changes, but she was resisted in every way by her mother via remote. In the meanwhile, Colin was slowly working his way into her heart, being sweet and sincere. But Janelle has a career to go back to... unless Colin can convince her to stay...

The flip from "OMG my worst enemy ever" to "OMG he's so sweet" was not handled that well. Neither was the transition of her mother "You can do nothing right" to "okay". There really wasn't even a darkest moment, per se. There was an anticipated problem, except it twisted into a deus ex machina instead. Sorry, this just didn't work for me.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Woman finally took over her family bakery, but was fought by her mother even as she hates/loves the reporter...

Overall Rating: 2/5

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