How the Cookie Crumbles Bluewater Bay Book 12 edition by Jaime Samms Romance eBooks
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A Bluewater Bay Novel
After losing a rigged cooking show competition — and a potential lover — to another baker, Frederic Jackson packs up his considerable baggage and moves to Bluewater Bay. He uses the network’s hush money to buy a new bakery where he hopes the small town’s revitalized economy will let him start anew.
Blaire Caruthers never wanted to work for his father at Caruthers Industries. He should have known that fixing the company’s show results was a mistake, and that choosing another man over kind, generous Frederic was an even bigger one. But the damage is done. To escape the fallout, he’s gone to Bluewater Bay to oversee the company’s interest in Wolf’s Landing merchandise.
Stuck in a small, nowhere town doing a job he hates, Blaire wants nothing more than to prove to Frederic he’s changed. However, Frederic struggles to trust the man who betrayed him once already. As Blaire loses ground with his father, and Frederic starts falling back into self-destructive habits, they both have to find the balance and control that’s been missing from their lives.
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The Bluewater Bay stories can be read in any order — jump in wherever you'd like!
Word count 91,300; page count 345
How the Cookie Crumbles Bluewater Bay Book 12 edition by Jaime Samms Romance eBooks
I got incredibly spoiled by how good all the books in the Bluewater Bay series have been so far. This installment certainly wasn't a terrible book by any means, writing-wise, but it didn't hold up to the story-telling quality of the other novels.Too much of the story hinged on events that occurred before the main characters arrived in Bluewater Bay. Flashbacks attempted to established that history, but we essentially pick up midway through a full story arc. Since we never get to see when Frederic and Blaire were happy together at the beginning, it makes the majority of Blaire's actions now uncomfortably intrusive and bordering on stalking.
Frederic's clumsiness is overwrought even before it leads to a major conflict point (the trajectory of which will make many medical professionals cringe at the ineptitude of care at Bluewater Bay's hospital). He comes into his own as a character at the end of the story, but the spine he finds conflicts with the abuse he takes from a family member through the first two-thirds of the novel.
None of the secondary characters stood out as anything more than bodies to prop up Frederic and Blaire. This is especially true in Alicia's case, with her very one-sided friendship with Frederic. She literally only shows up in the story to help him, and I saw no hints of how this loyalty is justified, especially since the characters have only even known each other for (maybe?) a year.
Some interesting plot twists regarding Blaire's business and Frederic's personal history kept the story humming along. But this relationship, and story, didn't work for me. I don't regret reading it, or spending money on the ebook, but it definitely won't go on my list of "must reads" when recommending this series to other readers.
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How the Cookie Crumbles Bluewater Bay Book 12 edition by Jaime Samms Romance eBooks Reviews
How the Cookie Crumbles, A Bluewater Bay Novel, Jaime Samms.
Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews
Genre LGBTQIA, Romance
More Bluewater...I love this series, with books written by different authors. I love the way people from earlier books crop up in cameo roles, it gives the series a real feeling of continuity. Jaime has written lots of novels, but this one is a first for me, it won’t be the last though, really enjoyed it.
Its fun how each writer has their own stamp, and yet the series still falls together so well with each new book. I have read most of them now and look forward to more...This time we meet baker Freddie, and Blaire, son of the TV network head.The network had run a reality style cooking competition, and Freddie and Blaire fell in and out of a potential relationship there, with Blaire rigging the competition to let his new lover, Jerry, win. Jerry is a real Bitch Queen, vicious, user of people type person and I enjoyed his appearances here, its good to have someone like him in a story.
Freddie used the hush money to buy his bakery, and should have been set for a profitable future, but things in his life interfere and he’s constantly running himself ragged trying to keep afloat. I loved Freddie, so loyal, adored his gran, tried to do his best for his dad even though the guy’s never been a good dad, far from it in fact, and Freddie is still affected by his upbringing. He fits in so well with the locals and the film people, he’s just such a sweetheart you can’t help loving him. He’s so stressed though, so on edge, overworking, not eating, not sleeping enough that he’s in danger of collapse. He’s so independent though he won't accept help, and to top it all off Blaire is back. That's all he needs, he’s still heartbroken at the way they ended. He’s rigidly cold to Blaire, polite – just, but makes it clear he isn’t welcome.
Blaire, well I didn’t like him at first, he seemed a typical money-will-buy-me-everything guy, and I couldn’t get over how he’d hurt Freddie. Blaire knows he c ocked up though, knows Freddie was the best thing in his life for a long while, and wants to try again. He’s got a tough road to tread though, he knows that, but he’s determined, and as things continued I began to see that he’d not intended to hurt Freddie, more a case of getting one over on his bigoted, controlling father and not thinking about the effect on Freddie. His dad is a horrible, very manipulative man, and I guess some of his lack of consideration rubbed off onto Blaire and that’s why he just didn’t think about the hurt he’d cause Freddie in what he did.
Slowly he works his way into Freddie’s life again . Its two steps forward and one back. He just can’t help his natural way of using money to solve things and Freddie won’t accept that. They have several struggles over things. Blaire only intends help and Freddie sees interference, Freddie just wants to make his shop work and Blaire sees him being a control freak and making himself ill. Its a fun read, very intuitive of human nature. There’s others in the book too, Alicia, camera woman ( I think) who’s a great friend to Freddie, Derek and Gin from the Burnt toast B&B ( great to read more of them), Lee and Vincent who work for Blaire’s father and are his assistants, and many regulars in the bakery customers.
I loved the tenderness here, the way Blaire really had learned his lesson in treating people baldly, he works really hard to put things in place so that he can try to make amends to Freddie and also to help the town. He likes the people, the way they see him, speak to him and wants to be a part of it. He’s finally grown up, finally learned that his dad is never going to let up on the control, and that its time to let go, to start looking at his own life and the effect he has on others.
I really enjoyed this story, the way it wasn’t the usual format with a build up to a huge drama towards the end, but full of minor ones along the way. I enjoyed the way Blaire stuck at it, didn't let Freddie rebuff him, kept his resolve, and finally saw what was important in his life. I loved the Freddie, Blaire, and Blaire’s dad showdown. Croutons at dawn, well – at suppertime anyway!
Stars Five, another great Bluewater instalment
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This is one of the few books I've read that got better the further I got along with it. I literally did not want it to end. Fredric and Blaire were well drawn character. I must admit being a little ticked at Blaire and didn't quite understand his motivations sometimes, but I got over that pretty quickly. He redeemed himself. I do believe this one ranks right up with Burnt Toast B&B as my favorite Bluewater Bay book.
Best of Bluewater so far. Great read.
i enjoyed the book
The book was excellent and well written. I would highly recommend reading.
I absolutely loved this Bluewater Bay story. It is full of little surprises and goes well with the other books bringing in some of the past characters. One in particular who I hope gets a book at one time. Highly recommend!!!!
For me this story felt just a little bit off. I struggled to become immersed in the pages; it just didn't quite connect with me. Once I figured out what was going on with the characters I cared a bit more, but that wasn't enough to make me love the story. I know my impression is subjective, others will enjoy this book better than I did. 3.3 for the kale comment.
I got incredibly spoiled by how good all the books in the Bluewater Bay series have been so far. This installment certainly wasn't a terrible book by any means, writing-wise, but it didn't hold up to the story-telling quality of the other novels.
Too much of the story hinged on events that occurred before the main characters arrived in Bluewater Bay. Flashbacks attempted to established that history, but we essentially pick up midway through a full story arc. Since we never get to see when Frederic and Blaire were happy together at the beginning, it makes the majority of Blaire's actions now uncomfortably intrusive and bordering on stalking.
Frederic's clumsiness is overwrought even before it leads to a major conflict point (the trajectory of which will make many medical professionals cringe at the ineptitude of care at Bluewater Bay's hospital). He comes into his own as a character at the end of the story, but the spine he finds conflicts with the abuse he takes from a family member through the first two-thirds of the novel.
None of the secondary characters stood out as anything more than bodies to prop up Frederic and Blaire. This is especially true in Alicia's case, with her very one-sided friendship with Frederic. She literally only shows up in the story to help him, and I saw no hints of how this loyalty is justified, especially since the characters have only even known each other for (maybe?) a year.
Some interesting plot twists regarding Blaire's business and Frederic's personal history kept the story humming along. But this relationship, and story, didn't work for me. I don't regret reading it, or spending money on the ebook, but it definitely won't go on my list of "must reads" when recommending this series to other readers.
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