Post listen review: Not the best and not the worst of the lame romances that I have been forced to listen to. It's really hard to go through all the audiobooks in the library without getting a LOT of romance in there.

Here is the plot such as it is. Two chefs are in competition to become the next star of The Cooking Channel (because the name the Food Network was already taken). One is a woman who has just had her heart broken by her scumbag producer that cheated on her and lost her the sponsor of her local show. The other is a ruggedly handsome man who has his own very popular local cooking show where he hunts and kills stuff and then cooks it. The two cooks hate each other. Then they don't. Then there is a misunderstanding and they hate each other again. Then the misunderstanding is cleared up and romance ensues. Yawn.

But I have some questions for this book and romance books in general.

1. Is this really the only formula for romance?
2. Does every stylist have to be a gay African-American man (this book and a few others) or a plump but vivacious woman (other books with a stylist)?
3. I know this book is about the south but do you have to resort to names like Zeke and Tate? I am gonna guess there are more Rogers and Johns in the south than Zekes or Tates.
4. Have you watched hunting or fishing shows? (not the extreme kind just regular hunting and fishing ones) Cause I don't think those guys could be described as having amazing abs and killer physiques. From what I have seen they are either fat or scrawny. (also since when do people watch cooking shows for the "hotness" factor? That's not exactly what Rachel Ray or Martha Stewart bring to mind for me)
5. If you have to insist that every man that a woman sees is physically fit, for goodness sakes throw a scene in where he lifts weights! You show the women starving themselves to look good, the guys are obviously doing some work here too.
6. When you have a female character who is constantly commenting on how hot several guys are (not so much in this book but in others) it is not that believable that they would be serial monogamists.
7. We all really see it coming that these people that hate each other will get it on by the end of the book so just get it over with already.
8. Let me get this straight people who produce a show called "Fresh Start" think a show with name "Vittles" has a stupid name?
9. The supportive but reckless sister that makes the main character always realize that she is in love, is annoying. Can we please cut her and have the stylist perform a double role for that?
10. Can someone else please listen to the next romance for me so I don't have to?

Pre-Listen Guess: Oh man. Romance and reality cooking. I don't know what could be more opposite of cool than that.