The Fortune Café
A Tangerine Street Romance
(a novel in three parts)
Welcome to Tangerine Street
Tangerine Street is a must-see tourist stop with a colorful mix of one-of-a-kind boutiques, unique restaurants, eclectic museums, quaint bookstores, and exclusive bed-and-breakfasts. The Fortune Café, situated in the middle of this charming collection of shops and cafés on Tangerine Street, is a … on Tangerine Street, is a Chinese restaurant unlike any other because, well, to be honest, the fortunes found in the cookies all come true…
MIS-FORTUNE: Emma, a waitress at The Fortune Café will do anything to avoid opening a fortune cookie. Each fortune is rumored to somehow magically come true. Being a girl grounded in reality, she doesn’t have time for that kind of nonsense. But when trying to prevent a food fight at the café, Emma accidentally cracks open a fortune cookie: “Look around, love is trying to catch you.” If there is one thing that Harrison, her former best friend in high school is good at, it’s catching her unaware.
LOVE, NOT LUCK: Lucy has always been lucky . . . until her parents meet her fiancé’s parents at a disastrous lunch at The Fortune Café, and she breaks her lucky jade necklace. Even worse, her fortune cookie reveals that “True love is for the brave, not the lucky.” How is she supposed to read that? She’s always considered it lucky how she met her fiancé. But after breaking her necklace, Lucy’s luck takes a dive. And when her fiancé dumps her, the only person she can turn to is Carter, the unluckiest guy she knows.
TAKEOUT: Stella is content in her new life of taking over her mom’s jewelry shop. No more boyfriend to worry about, and as long as she stays busy, she doesn’t have to dwell on her non-existent love life. When Evan comes into the shop with his young daughter, Stella is charmed. But she is reluctant to complicate her straightforward life, so when she reads her fortune after ordering takeout from The Fortune Café, she completely ignores it. After all, how can a fortune as vague as “Do the thing you fear and love is certain,” apply to her?
Other books in the Tangerine Street Romance series: The Boardwalk Antiques Shop
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somewhat amusing
I really enjoyed this book! Three nice short stories.
The idea behind this novel was intriguing and I’m so glad I stumbled onto it when I did. I can’t think of a better way to spend a lazy weekend than enjoying three sweet and fun romances.
With the story centered around a mystical Chinese restaurant where the fortunes actually come true, there was no shortage of interesting plots and lots of built-in anticipation to see how the characters would connect. I really loved the first story that focused on Emma and Harrison and their high school connection turned second chance romance. I was a little less into the second story about Carter and Lucy after her engagement fell apart, even though they turned out to be really cute. I have to say though, my favorite story was that of Stella and Evan which included his precious daughter, Katie. There’s always something about a single parent that gets me every time.
The stories themselves are short enough to keep the pace moving throughout the book but in depth enough to get all the details you need without lacking anything. Even though I’d love to see them expanded and see what happens to the characters long term, I love how they all ended and how satisfying each one was. For this to have been written by three different authors, each one had a unique style that blended into a perfect mix of storytelling abilities between them. They seemed to all flow right into the next without feeling disjointed. This is definitely going into my go-to “lazy days” reads when I want to revisit the characters and relive their love stories. I’m looking forward to the author’s next writing endeavor together as well!
Very cute read
Cute if you like that sort of thing.
I couldn’t see the first bunch of pages so I didn’t bother reading it.
Three sweet stories are creatively linked. Easy read for passing time.
This was a nice trilogy of slightly interrelated stories. A few characters and situations were shown in multiple stories to build the world from the view of the different women who shared some spaces.
I love an author who can make me laugh, and engage my emotions with their story. It happens while reading this book.
I did not want to stop reading this. I’ll be buying sequels to this one.
Sweet, heart-warming stories.
Entertaining but a little predictable. Liked the idea of a trilogy with three stories connected to one theme (the cafe)
Three cute stories in one book!
short stories… very fast read…
good read
A bit disappointed. I expected more .
So much could have been done with this idea of the fortunes inside fortune cookies coming true so I was disappointed when the story lines were romances.
Three short stories, enjoyed the first two more than the last one.
I enjoyed the three stories that intertwined with each other.