March 16, 2025
This book features the long titular novella of Kitchen, and on the back end, a previous short novella from her called Moonlight Shadow. Both, however, deal with themes of death, loss, and overcoming it. They both come across very sweet, I like them a quite a bit. In Kitchen, we have someone who of course loves cooking and ends up being alone and having to move forward with her passion and make new connections, and in Moonlight Shadow which I liked just as much, we have someone who lost her boyfriend, making friends with others who lost close ones, who help her cope. However, there’s two problems here. First of all, there’s quite a bit of of trans representation in Kitchen, and let’s just say it does not age the best. Still, it’s actually sort of progressive for the time and place, and you have to keep that in mind when reading. Also, in both stories, the writing style gets pretty repetitive. And in the end, this book isn’t really anything groundbreaking. It’s just really warm and nice.
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