Choco Sanchez is stuck in a rut. She's never hit a softball and has been friends forever with Carlos Lopez, the head cook at her family's Filipino restaurant. When flashy restaurant consultant Johnny Dee hits her with a pitch, she falls head over heels and gets a makeover
Carlos Lopez is not about to lose one for the home team. Johnny launches a full scale change on the menu, and Carlos sends him straight into the dumpster. Claiming Choco's heart proves more difficult. But never underestimate a man who can cook hot, spicy, and steamy, and we ain't talking just food.
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Review:
Claiming Carlos is the third book I have read by Rachelle Ayala and I loved it just as much as the first two. I love how she mixes cultures within the books, letting you love the story but learning things along the way. I love the Sanchez Sisters books. The first book in the series we meet Romeo and Evie, and I loved them. Claiming Carlos is Choco’s story, we meet here in Evie book and I really liked her in the book.
Choco: Works at her family’s restaurant, happy, funny and an
all-around great person, who as happen to be in love with her best friend
Carlos.
Carlos: Works as at chef at Choco’s family restaurant. He is
funny, driven, loving and also happens to be in love with his best friend
Choco.
What happens went the share a soul aching kiss in the closet
while chaperoning Choco’s sisters date? Will this kiss change everything or can
they make it work?
I love the emotions that take place in this one, we have
soul hurting longing, and Tears in your eyes heartbreak and over the rainbow
love that hurts you own heart to read. It
was full of twists and turns that you don’t want to stop reading it, until the
very last page. I love how Rachelle always keeps you wanting more and how she
entwines the characters together, so we get so much more out of the story.
4 out of 5 stars!
Excerpt:
[Love to Hate Miranda]
“Stop.” Miranda waves a spatula and blocks our way. “No members of the wait staff allowed in the kitchen.”
“I need another order of vegan spring rolls. No meat!” Sarah yells.
“She stole my gluten-free bangus.” Susie pushes her way past Miranda, who bounces against the door to the cold room, opening it.
“Out, out of the kitchen.” Miranda sticks a finger in Susie’s chest. Big mistake.
Susie’s nostrils flare and her piercings dance. “Out of my way.”
With a hefty push, she shoves Miranda who stumbles back into the cold room. Her arms windmilling, she falls in between the sides of raw pork belly hanging up to dry.
“Ai ya!” Miranda slaps at the pork bellies and pulls on a trussed whole duck for balance, right when a wooden tray of balut, fertilized duck eggs with the intact embryo, falls and splatters over her. The slime and partially formed embryos ooze down her hair and face.
Everyone except Johnny bursts out laughing. I whip out my cell phone and snap as many pictures as I can before Johnny blocks my view to help his mother.
Out of nowhere, Carlos appears, and he gives Johnny a kick on the back of his tight leopard printed butt, sending him sprawling against the skewered suckling pigs. They tumble like dominoes, knocking Johnny on top of his balut-covered mother.
Carlos picks up a tray of the Vietnamese style transparently wrapped no-fry spring rolls and flings the contents into the cold room all over Johnny and Miranda. “Vegan spring rolls is off the menu.”
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Rachelle is the founder of an online writing group, Romance in a Month, an active member of the California Writer's Club, Fremont Chapter, and a volunteer for the World Literary Cafe. She is a very happy woman and lives in California with her husband. She has won awards in multicultural and historical romance
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1st Prize - $20 Amazon Gift Card
2nd Prize - Choice of Rachelle Ayala's eBooks
Giveaway
1st Prize - $20 Amazon Gift Card
2nd Prize - Choice of Rachelle Ayala's eBooks
