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Dirty Talking Rival

By: Pippa Grant
Narrated by: Jason Clarke, Virginia Rose
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They call me the sugar whisperer.

Anything your tongue desires, I can bake it. Scones? Child's play. Cupcakes? I'll frost them so good you won't know what hit you. Donuts? Please!

You're talking to a master baker.

But there's one egg I've never been able to crack.

My best friend.

Correction: my former best friend.

She's the apple in my pie. The whip in my cream. The lemon in my meringue. The wish in my bone. She's the one who got away.

After ten years in the military, she's back. She's bruised and battered by life, but she's back. Except, she's not my second chance. She's gone to the dark side. Running a rival bakery in a town not big enough for two.

So, now I have to decide - which do I want more?

My bakery?

Or the woman I never should've let go in the first place?

Master Baker is a deliciously fun friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy featuring a smooth-talking baker, the one who got away, and a goat with more matchmaking tendencies than a nosy old grandpa. It stands alone with no cheating or cliff-hangers.

©2019 Pippa Grant (P)2019 Pippa Grant Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Romantic Comedy Comedy

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Love the story, it was a great listen with good performances from the narrators. Love the extra epilogues too.

Great Story

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Feuding bakers, fantastic buns, blended together perfectly.

A few cameos from other characters from Pippa's books that we've come to love.

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Yummy

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I have totally been listening to all of these in the wrong order, but it doesn't matter, as they all also work just great as standalone books.
However, the main joy is how all of the characters from other books, and across different story threads, all make cameo appearances. It totally makes the whole fictional world so much more vivid and real.
I loved all of the new and recurring characters in this book, with a special mention to Sue, the matchmaking goat! 😂
Wonderful writing and excellent narration. Love both of these narrators so much.

Another fantastic Pippa Grant book

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I love this book especially Sue, it’s has me laughing and tearing up and it’s just amazing

Brilliant

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This book made me feel good but also hungry for baked goods. A cinnamon roll, a donut anything baked. Byt sadly my baked goods don't come with a hansom man like in this book...
As all Pippa Grant's books this one made me laugh, and I hope to find more books by her.
I really recommend this book

Love and baking, does it get better?

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This was such a hilarious book. It was friends turned enemies but never really hated each other turned secret lovers. And their towns are rivals. But they're both so funny about it. It's like a hilarious Romeo and Juliet but with a goat who eats everything and a foul mouthed parrot and of course a happy ending.

Annika and Grady were best friends as kids but both went their separate ways after high school. Ten years later they meet again and so many laughs follow as their bakeries go to war. I loved the way Grady spoke to his dough. I loved how terrible Annika was with baking but how loyal she was to her mom and sister.

This was just a great story narrated by Jason Clarke's delicious voice on Grady's chapters and Virginia Rose giving the perfect tone for Annika's characters. She's definitely one I'd love to hear in more Rom-Com.

My Thoughts on Master Baker

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I first read the ebook and I loved it. I loved the hilarious (and drool-worthy) descriptions of the baked goods. I loved that the baker and hero, Grady, talks lovingly to his food (something i'm apt to do because I love food). And I love the adorable animals that round out a fantastic cast. All those led to many laugh out loud moments.

But underlying all this humor is true emotion. Grady loved the heroine Annika. They were best friends in high school and he finally got the courage to tell her how he felt right before she went into the military. She still went because she didn’t want to be like her mother, who had her and her sister when she was young, without help from the father. Feelings of abandonment also ran deep with Annika. They lost contact, with both characters holding on to hurt about how things progressed.

Fast forward 10 years- Annika came back to take care of her mother, who just became blind. She wanted to follow through with her mom’s dream of a bakery but who owns the bakery in a competing town? Yep, Grady (there’s a lot of bad blood between Shipwreck (Grady’s town) and Sarcasm (Annika’s town)). Can they put aside the hurt and their town’s animosity to achieve their HEA? Read on to find out. Full of hijinks, humor and heart, it really makes me wish I lived in a small town where I could be friends with these people.

Now, I got to relive this awesome story via the audiobook. Both narrators, Virginia Rose and Jason Clarke, are fantastic. They play multiple characters (and there are a lot of them!) perfectly. I'm still impressed at how they can shift so easily between the many many characters. And can I just say, Jason Clarke with his gruff voice? Sigh. I could listen to this book again and again! And since I own it, I plan to!

Lots of laughs and plenty of heart

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Master Baker. What more can you want in a man? Someone who can make baked goods on demand! But that is not what this romantic comedy is about. Annika has come home to help her mother realize her dream. Just when she is about to open her bakery, she finds she is losing her sight and Annika will do anything to help her. The problem is, she can't bake! One town over, in Shipwreck lives her old best friend Grady. The one that wanted her to wait for him while he went to culinary school, and now owns his own bakery. And the rivalry begins. Pippa Grant had him with baking and a town called Sarcasm! But she molds a laugh out loud, second chance romance into this amazing story that held me captive for hours. Grady is amazing. Incredibly supportive, talks to his flour, knows what Annika needs and is very competitive! Annika is struggling, but I love that. It's nice to know she can be a soldier, but can't make brownies! Add in her little sister, Bailey who is a total hoot and the goat and you will be laughing while eating some fresh baked cookies! Grab this one if you want to have a fun, enjoyable listen!

Virginia Rose and Jason Clarke bring our all the stops for this romcom. Fantastic comedic timing and voices to match the characters perfectly, we enjoy their interpretation of the story. Even the goat has a voice! What a team! Sit back and listen to this one, you won't regret it!

Doughnut time!

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This is one of those audiobooks where the narrators are better than the story! Sweet story but quite frankly boring, absolutely no plot and to be honest it just went on and on and on. Sweet but I could’ve done without it.

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