Written by Rich Amooi⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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The blurb:
Susie opens a tea shop next to Jack’s coffee shop and the war begins.Jack Robbins has a booming coffee business, an eighty-year old customer who can’t keep his clothes on, and a rescue Chihuahua named Chimichanga that likes to kiss on the mouth. Life is good until the new business next door takes a bite out of his sales.
Susie McKenna has the new tea shop everyone is talking about, an over-protective brother, and a stubborn, good-looking neighbor who is trying to steal her customers.
Things really start to percolate when Jack and Susie both volunteer to help plan the downtown festival. They have to work together and soon Jack won't be able to get by without his daily fix of Susie. But can a coffee lover and a tea devotee put their competition aside to get their happily ever after?
Fiction
Humour
My thoughts:
A big fan of Amooi's writing, I picked Coffee,Tea or Me to read whilst on holiday last week. I found it easy to get into, and enjoyed getting to know the two main characters, Jack Robbins and Susie McKenna.The story is about the opening of a new tea shop next to an established coffee shop. Jack owns the coffee shop and is intrigued by the new business, and then becomes slightly concerned by the competition. Susie tells him that they are catering for two different markets; him for coffee drinkers and her for tea lovers. But then there's her scones, which are the main attraction and drawing his trade away.
After an inauspicious beginning, Jack and Susie have to work together on their hometown festival, and inevitably love blossoms.
I liked Jack's dog, Chimichanga, who does not like women around Jack, but on meeting Susie, behaves quite differently, allowing Susie to pet her. I also liked Harvey, Jack's regular customer. I found his antics entertaining, but also understood that he was lonely following the death of his wife, and felt a little lost in his retirement years.
Susie's brother, Kenneth, starts out looking like a corner-cutting bodger, and I was fully expecting his handiwork in "Susie's Tea & Scones" to start a fire. Kenneth and Jack clash from the outset, and size-up to each other, but when Kenneth gets injured, Jack goes to help him, also getting injured in the process. Their feud is ended, and their new-found friendship sees them helping Susie to save her business.
Coffee, Tea or Me is another well-written, believable, nicely paced romance from Amooi, and was perfect as a holiday read.
| Author Bio – Rich Amooi |
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He is happily married to a kiss monster imported from Spain. Rich believes in public displays of affection, silliness, infinite possibilities, donuts, gratitude, laughter, and happily ever after. |
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