If there’s one thing that might get my dad, a retired math teacher, to visit Toronto and have a real conversation with me for the first time in seventeen years, it’s a big nerdy Pi Day party. And hopefully this party—and seeing the tech company I built from nothing—will finally be enough to impress him and make him forgive me for everything I did when I was a teenager.But it’s got to be a really … got to be a really great party.
That’s where Sarah Winters comes in. She owns Happy As Pie, a sweet and savory pie shop, and wants to get into catering. She makes an amazing lamb-rosemary pie, cherry pie, lemon-lime tart…you get the idea. She’ll provide the food and help me plan the party, nothing more. No matter how much time we spend together, I’m not going to fall in love with her.
At least, that’s what I tell myself…
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This is a lovely story about Josh (tech CEO) and Sarah (pie maker extraordinaire). Josh is throwing a pi day party in the hope that it will be the catalyst to healing the rift between him and his dad. He hires Sarah, from the Happy As Pie shop to cater for the event.
The characters are all really well developed and I felt I knew both Sarah and Josh. I loved that Sarah has been working so that she feels she hasn’t made many female friends and these friendships are almost as important to her as her budding relationship with Josh.
I also adored Josh’s mum.
There is a lot about food in this book and I kept having to go fetch myself a snack.
Very nice, low angst, (relatively) high heat, feel good romance.
As sweet and satisfying as a slice of apple pie! I loved this steamy contemporary romance, about my favorite geeky holiday. Sarah and Josh were super relatable, with a nice depth and complexity to their backgrounds and family histories. Also it had the best ever “guy takes care of a girl with cramps” scene–totally swoon worthy!
I absolutely loved this book. Like so much. And also need to have burrata now. And pie. And possibly Lucky Charms. Sarah and Josh are wonderful. They are adorably, and realistically cute and awkward falling into hardcore like (to turn into love, of course) and hot in the bedroom. Their arcs are well-done and interesting. I loved watching Sarah relax and expand her circle of people and really come into her own, standing up for what was important. And Josh’s struggles with his father, and the way it was handled, made you not only ache for Josh, but made the ending feel right and real. This had tons of fabulous side characters and delicious food, and adorable, funny moments but was also super heartfelt. Jackie Lau captures the complexities of families, all the love and the hurt and the annoyance and pride, and it just was amazing in this book. Totally recommend.
Need a break from the intensity of romantic suspense? Get this fun, smart, sexy book. What’s not to love about a hot-but-nerdy tech CEO hero, and a heroine with a growing bakery who feeds him amazing pie as she helps with his plan to win back his dad’s favor by throwing The Ultimate Pi Day Party (Baldwin Village, #1)? I just loved these two together. Warning: pie cravings ahead.
Jackie Lau has become a favorite author of mine, for her smart, fun, light-hearted and diverse romance, and The Ultimate Pi Day Party (Baldwin Village, #1) is one of those books that you start and don’t want to stop. The characters are charming and a little bit awkward, their love story refreshingly honest, their issues tense but not overly angsty or overwought. It is, simply put, a book that’ll leave your heart light and a your face tilted up in a smile. Highly recommend not just this one, but all of Jackie’s books!
Sweet as Pi love story!
Josh and Sarah hit it off instantly, but he’s got some leftover relationship issues that he needs to work through, and it’s not what you’d think. I really enjoyed the glimpse into the city life of Toronto, and loved the secondary characters that added complexity and depth to the story.
The author’s writing style is instantly engaging and refreshingly realistic. No over-the-top insta-love or magically-disappearing problems, just honest attraction, steamy chemistry, and a grounded romance that still proves the power of love. I loved how the author showed the characters dealing with all their relationships – with each other, of course, but also with their friends and families, making these fully-developed characters seemingly come to life.
The cultural differences – he’s Asian, she’s not – are touched on without becoming the main focus. There’s quite a bit of humor laced throughout which beautifully offsets the necessary angsty scenes. It was a fun read, one that I read straight through non-stop. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.