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    Sweet Stuff
    Sweet Stuff
    Sweet Stuff
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    Sweet Stuff

    By Donna Kauffman

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    A city girl finds love in a small Southern town in this “deliciously warm and feel-good” romance by the USA Today bestselling author (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

    After years of Chicago’s hustle and bustle, Riley Brown is savoring her new life on Georgia's tranquil Sugarberry Island. With a dream job as a house stager and fantastic new friends in the Cupcake Club, she's got it all—or almost. While she’s still healing from a bad breakup, Riley is starting to crave an eligible man. 
     
    Then a gig staging a renovated beach house delivers a delicious treat: Quinn Brannigan, a six-foot, blue-eyed writer as delectable and Southern as pecan pie. Quinn is back in his hometown to finish his latest novel, and suddenly Riley has a taste for the bad boy author that no amount of mocha latte buttercream or lemon mousse will satisfy. 
     
    "Hilarious from start to finish." –Affaire du Coeur
     
    Includes irresistible recipes!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKensington Books
    Release dateSep 1, 2013
    ISBN9780758291486
    Sweet Stuff
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    Donna Kauffman

    Donna was first published with Bantam's Loveswept line in 1993. After 14 books, she moved on to write contemporary single titles for Bantam. In 2001, she returned to her category roots and had her first release from Harlequin's Temptation line. Walk on the Wild Side was the number one selling Temptation on Amazon the week of its release. Donna is also writing for Harlequin's Blaze line. She enjoys creating characters that like to push the edge a little. Donna lives in Virginia with her husband and rapidly growing sons. She also has a rapidly growing menagerie of pets. Her two Australian terrors, er, terriers, were recently joined by a baby cockatoo named Cha Cha. Donna's husband is fairly sure it won't end there. Donna's fairly sure he's right.

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    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book. It was a nice, fun read. I loved Quinn. He had so much confidence yet he was the most down to earth person. I loved the cupcake crew as well. I liked Riley but I do wish she had more confidence in herself. Of course, the novel makes it clear why she suffered from low self confidence but it was disconcerting at times to see her constantly put herself down, even when friends and Quinn reassured of how good she actually was. I gave it four stars because the ending just seemed to whimper along. It was as if Kauffman wanted to drag out the ending and show how lovey dovey they were. I found myself echoing Charlotte's thoughts about them getting a room.
    • 3/5
      I liked this one better than the first one in this series. There's more storyline and you finally get to see something of the Cupcake Club, which the first book didn't have much of. However, it is still pretty average - I'm glad I got this series as very cheap ebooks.
    • 5/5
      sweet stuff by Donna KaufmanQuinn, an author, has returned to the island and buys the house he walked into while Riley was setting up a display of cupcakes for the open house. She had fallenoff the back end of the walking machine into a bush.He used to summer there and was very familiar with the waterfront.She is a klutz and her dog really likes him and shows it often.He likes that she is not only a designer but a photographer and he found some of her prints at his house.Riley and the other females and Franco have their weekly Cupcake Club meeting where they notonly get to chat but sample new combinations of cupcakes that will be in the store soon.Like learning about writing process/business and how he goes about it all.She goes into detail to a few at the Club and tells them about why she left Chicago, her job and her boyfriend.He's torn between making a decision to go the easy route and give readers what they expect from his writing or to go out on a limb and do the story a different way.She's on the beach with Brutus and he ends up in the water again.She helps him solve a dilemma he's having about the book he's writing.Numerous job opportunities for Riley, which will she take? one of them will bring her closer to him on a daily basis.Reference to the Walton's was priceless!Recipes and an epilogue and excerpt from Sugar Rush, what a great book!
    • 2/5
      Being generous w/2 stars. Kauffman is definitely off my want-to-read-all-this-author's-books list. More yammer and jibber-jabber, endless hardly going anywhere conversations that end up boring and monotonous. I moved through the first Cupcake book and foolishly started this 2nd in the series. I couldn't warm up to any of the characters (except for Brutus), didn't much care what happened to them. Years ago I weaned myself away feeling like I had to finish every book I started; for some bizarre reason I wanted to finish this one, to prove to myself that I was wrong about the book. I was wrong about being wrong. I know people have 'history', bad relationships, self-confidence issues, yadda yadda yadda. Maybe another author could have done it better - I know Kauffman didn't do it for me.
    • 3/5
      Riley Brown and her behemoth dog Brutus move to Sugarberry, GA from Chicago when Riley’s seven year relationship goes to hell in a handbasket. She finds some peace in Sugarberry and for the first time in her life she finds good friends to share life’s ups and downs with. Then Quinn Brannigan, famous and hunky author, enters her life and Riley has to decide if she has the guts to grab life by the balls and take a chance on a relationship with him. You know what they say…No guts, no glory.This was an ok read, well-written and smooth-flowing with interesting in-depth characters. For the most part, I enjoyed reading about the colorful characters from the first book, Sugar Rush. However…yeah, that’s like a big but (not butt) hanging out there except I like to use ‘however’…for me, there was way too much dialogue and angsting going on and not enough action. Just not my thing, but I’m sure is perfect for others because we can’t all like the same stuff. That would suck and not in a good way.*The publisher provided a copy of this book to me for review. Please see disclaimer page on my blog.
    • 4/5
      I didn't realize when I started the book that it was the second in the series, but it didn't affect my enjoyment at all. I thought it was a good book, a sweet romance with just enough heat to make it interesting. Riley came to Sugarberry Island to recover from a romance gone bad. What she found there was a group of good friends, a new career, and a community that cares. She is enjoying her new job staging houses, which is how she meets Quinn. She is a bit of a klutz and always seems to have scrapes and bruises. She was staging a house a managed to hurt herself as Quinn arrived. She was immediately attracted to him, but since he's a famous author she figures he'll have no interest in her. Quinn had spent summers on Sugarberry Island with his grandparents when he was younger. When he ran into problems writing his latest book, he came to the island looking for the peace and quiet he needed. He definitely wasn't looking for a distraction like Riley, but he couldn't stay away from her.I really liked both Riley and Quinn. Riley's lack of self esteem bugged me but it was totally understandable. Her ex-fiance had done a real number on her and she was still recovering from it. Her immediate attraction to Quinn really worried her because she wasn't sure that she was ready to take and chance and risk her heart again. I really liked her outlook on life and how cheerful she usually was. I also liked the way that she was able to talk so openly with Quinn without the usual guy/girl games that go on in relationships. She had a lot of inner turmoil as she had to decide if she was willing to pursue what she and Quinn could have together. I thought Quinn was a really nice guy. He wasn't one of those celebrities that had to be the center of attention. He was dealing with trying to figure out if he wanted to take his writing in a new direction. He knew that he could write what his readers expected, but the characters were calling for something else. He had to make a decision soon and Riley was a distraction he didn't need, but couldn't resist. I loved the way that he saw the real Riley and liked her, klutziness and all. I also liked the way he didn't push her, but was honest about his feelings and gave her the space to decide. I loved the way he told her about the problem with his book and how her point of view helped him so much. The interactions between the two of them were fantastic. Whether they were deep conversations about their feelings or lives or just fun times with Riley's dog, it was obvious that they really understood each other. The sexual tension was there also, but it didn't overwhelm the rest of the story.I also really liked the other characters in the book. It was obvious that they were all good friends and I loved the way that they looked out for each other. Some of the things Alva said were not expected from an elderly Southern lady which made them so much more fun. I also loved the dog, Brutus, and how his antics added to the fun between Riley and Quinn. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.
    • 2/5
      It was okay. Too much self-pity from the female main character for what was basically just a bad break-up. Also needed more interaction with her friends. After 2 years she's just now talking about what happens?!? There were some funny moments which is why I gave it a two.

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