I loved this book. I liked it's quirkiness and I really related to the mother in the story. The story is fun and original. The book starts off with the main character,Rose Edelstein, discovering her ability to feel her mother's feelings when she eats a slice of the lemon cake she just baked. Rose is nine years old when she discovers this "gift" and soon finds it to be more of a curse than a gift. The idea of someone being able to tell the feelings of whoever's cooking they eat is just an interesting concept. This isn't a hard hitting piece of literature but I don't think it was meant to be. I took it with me when I went on vacation and it was the perfect choice for my trip. (Except for the fact that once I started reading it I needed to know how it ended and stayed up all night to finish it.) But a book that pulls you to do that sort of thing is a good book, and this one was. I also really liked that the father seemed like such an easy character to have figured out throughout the whole book and then you're offered a whole new view of him at the end. This book made me want to find and read more books by Aimee Bender.