Customer Rating:  
Summary: A bland and boring recipe
Comment: I loved the Friday Night Knitting Club and couldn't put it down. In contrast, I found Jacobs' second book to be difficult to pick up. The characters are bland and not very believable, and the plot moves like molasses. It just feels like the publisher rushed this one to print, and I was so disappointed. As evidenced by her first book, I do think Kate Jacobs is a talented storyteller, and I hope she'll return to form in the next one!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Truly disappointed
Comment: I was very excited for Comfort Food as I LOVED Friday Night Knitting Club and I was completely disappointed with this book. The book just seemed very slow and boring, there was a focus on food but the food didn't bring the characters together like the knitting store did in her previous book. I think that she tried to use that same common thread again and it just didn't work.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Well written, but flawed
Comment: I read this Author's previous book, The Friday Night Knitting Club, and I was not as enamored with this one, but I still had an enjoyable time reading the book. My problem was that it read as if the author is just waiting for a film option (I can see it now, Diane Lane as "Gus"!), This book is definitely very plot driven, so I felt that I didn't get to know the characters as deeply as I would have liked to. Still, I always love a good book about a foodie!
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Summary: Ate it up!
Comment: I can't ask for much more. Friendships, relationships between mothers and daughters, a bit of romance and drama, plus cooking? Gus, a fifty-year-old mother of two, has her own show, which is done in her house. She has had this show 12 years. However, she isn't like other chefs and the ratings are drizzling out. So Alan, the boss, adds a little spice, Carmen. Carmen likes to cook but likes herself and fame more.
We also have a whole other cast, that make up for a very interesting book that you will want to gobble in one setting. Find out if Carmen and Gus can co-exist together on a show. Find out if the show will end or if they will have a second season. Find out who finds love but most of all you will be thrilled and entertained throughout the whole book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A tasty read . . .
Comment: This is the first Kate Jacobs' book I've read and I rather enjoyed it. It took me a couple of chapters to get into the story but once I did, I was satisfied and it wasn't as predictable as some have said. There were more than a couple of lines that were laugh-out-loud funny. It's light reading, but I would recommend it.
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