Much Ado About a Latte – ARC Book Review

A coffee war is brewing in Maple Falls, where Anita and Tanner are serving up plenty of sparks to keep the town buzzing.

Anita Bedford needs to face reality. It’s time to decaffeinate the dream that she and Tanner will ever be more than friends. Growing up in small-town Maple Falls, she’s had a crush on Tanner for years. But he’ll only ever see her as good, old, dependable Anita. Now she’s finally ready to make her own goals a reality. In fact, that deserted building next door to Sunshine Diner looks like a promising location to open her own café . . .

Tanner Castillo may know how to operate a diner, but he doesn’t know beans about love. After pouring his life savings into buying the Sunshine Diner, he needs to keep his mind on making a success of it and supporting his widowed mother, not on kissing Anita Bedford. First order of business: improve his customers’ coffee experience. Next, he should probably find out who bought the building next door . . .

It’s a bitter cup to swallow when ambition turns longtime friends and coworkers Anita and Tanner into rivals. Now that they own competing businesses, how could they ever compete for each other’s hearts? Or will the two of them come to see what’s obvious to the whole, quirky town of Maple Falls: potential for a full-roast romance, with an extra splash of dream?

Welcome to Maple Falls, where everyone knows your name, your coffee order, and your relationship status.

Does anyone want a latte? Well, I do want one!

Much Ado About a Latte is a story of two people Anita and Tanner who had been having feelings for each other since high school.. Now Tanner owns the Sunshine Cafe and Anita wants to buy the building next to the Sunshine Cafe to build her own cafe, and the story tells about the love-hate relationship between the two.

I do like the plotline and I also like the writing style. But then, I feel like I was watching some cheesy romantic movie with a predictable storyline and ending. Anita and Tanner had a crush on each other but Anita trying to open up a cafe next to Tanner’s made their relationship with each other more like a frenemy relationship. To be honest, I felt a little bored reading the book but then of course, most of the story in this book was predictable. This is more like a happily ever after, everyone gets together kind of a story although despite the fact that I have read numerous books based on that, this book was not my cup of tea unfortunately.

This is the second book of the Maple Falls romance series–I haven’t read the first one but this book is actually a standalone novel.

Overall, if you like a cheesy romance with a predictable story with a Hallmark movie setting then this book is one for you–worth only two and a half stars.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC. The review is based on my honest opinion only.