Tacos For Two - Betsy St. Amant

Book Synopsis: Rory Perez, a food truck owner who can't cook, is struggling to keep the business she inherited from her aunt out of the red--and an upcoming contest during Modest's annual food truck festival seems the best way to do it. The prize money could finally give her a solid financial footing and keep her cousin with special needs paid up at her beloved assisted living home. Then maybe Rory will have enough time to meet the man she's been talking to via an anonymous online dating site.

Jude Strong is tired of being a puppet at his manipulative father's law firm, and the food truck festival seems like the perfect opportunity to dive into his passion for cooking and finally call his life his own. But if he loses the contest, he's back at the law firm for good. Failure is not an option.

Complications arise when Rory's chef gets mono and she realizes she has to cook after all. Then Jude discovers that his stiffest competition is the same woman he's been falling for online the past month.

Will these unlikely chefs sacrifice it all for the sake of love? Or will there only ever be tacos for one?

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I knew just form the cover that I was going to love this book. It ticked all the right boxes for me. This was such a fun story and had a great plot.

I've never had the experience of eating from a food truck before, but this book makes me want to go to one soon. Rory and Jude meet through an online dating app and fall in love, yet when she meets him in real life (without her knowing he's who she has been talking to online), she can't stand him. She is the owner of Salsa Street and he is the owner of Nacho Taco which they proceed to enter into the same food truck competition.

My favorite aspect about this book was the online texting format exchanges between the main characters and the Mexican food. One thing that bothered me about this book was the pacing, it felt that some parts were dragging. For example, the whole story arc of Jude's father and his brother, that was so boring to me.

If you love books that are about Mexican food, romance and family, you won't be disappointed with this book.

Rating: 4/5 Stars ★★★★☆