Virtually Perfect

Virtually Perfect by Paige Roberts

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This is the 30th book I've read and rated this year. I don't think I'm going to finish any more books before Sunday, so this should be it. 30 is a nice round number...

Lizzie Glass, a former reality TV chef who has fallen on hard times, takes a job as a personal chef to a rich family in their summer home by the beach. While dealing with this dysfunctional group and their individual food needs (Paleo, gluten free and whatever diet is trendy this year) as well as their quirks, (including the overly talkative matriarch of the family and the hard to reach and even harder to please Zoe, as well as their oversexed and ultimately bored friends) Lizzie discovers a secret about the family and Zoe’s health food website that threatens to shake their empire to the core.

I am only mildly conflicted about this book, since for the most part I really enjoyed it, but found it maybe a little predictable. I partly blame the summary at the back of the book, which clued me into several things that happened before they happened. I can’t really blame the author for that, but much like doing a puzzle, just a few clues here and there pretty much unlocked where she was going with this. The big secret in the book didn’t come as much of a secret, if you were really paying attention. I also thought it wound up being so tight and tidy and interconnected that all the parts fit and added to this element of predictability. As an example of story organization, it definitely gets an “A.” Maybe I’m just jealous.

But that said, I don’t think it bothered me so much. I got through it in about 3 days and it held my interest. It is good, and I am easy to please.






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