Tantalize

June 6, 2011
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fiction
By Cynthia Leitch Smith
Reviewed by Mackenzie Harris
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

     Quincie has encountered some problems while trying to open her family’s vampire-themed restaurant, but it seems to be progressing to opening night well after she hires the perfect replacement for the restaurant’s previous chef, murdered brutally by a non-human. While Quincie’s business life is in minimal turmoil, she is failing in her relationship with her best friend, Kieren, a super-hot werewolf hybrid who is about to leave town forever to join a pack. Quincie begins to fall for the chef at the restaurant, trying to distance herself from Kieren to make their separation easier. Although everyone in her life is amazing, she has a hard time trusting anyone because she doesn’t know who killed her first chef.

     Quincie’s love for Italian food and attraction for magical creatures seasons this book cleverly with tasty metaphors, but there is an awkward transition of the conflict in the last 50 or so pages. For most of the book Quincie’s main problem is trying to get the restaurant open. The reader knows that the story takes place in a world where vampires and Werepeople exist, but it seems almost irrelevant for most of the book. It is almost like two stories were just smashed together in a very amateur way. Tantalize is a good book but not great. I recommend this book to teens who like romance rather than action, despite what it says on the cover.

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