The love interest, Hector, is new in town, taking a break from culinary school to live at his grandmother’s house after her death in order to manage her affairs. He has musical aspirations outside of the bakery his family owns, but his relationship with his bandmates is toxic, complicating his big city dreams. Ari, the baker’s son, wants to move out of his small town so he can live with his friends in the big city. The beginning of the book sticks to the formula it has set for itself. And it got me thinking about how to write in conversation with your reader’s expectations. From the get go, we expect a certain flow of time, a certain pattern of events, a certain trajectory of character arc - and most all, a certain amount of levity. To me, and probably to most of us, we have a set of expectations when we open up a book about a “meet cute” in a small town bakery. On one hand, you hold the promise of the romance genre. I wanted to see Ari and Hector’s relationship grow from coworkers to something more, and Bloom delivered.īloom is a really weird book. The very premise, that the main character is working in a bakery, but needs to train his new coworker before he leaves, reminds of that staple of fanfiction, the coffee shop au (so you know it’s gonna be good). As a reader, I picked Bloom up because it promised a cute, sweet romance. It was a fast read, the kind of read that begs to be finished in one sitting.
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