This review was written by the Beautiful (and oh so funny)
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Lets see how Danieller123 describes this fic: Isabella Swan is a famous chef with a short fuse and lackluster love life. Edward Cullen is a single father trying to balance raising his child and making it big in the food industry. What happens when he becomes Bella's new sous chef? A/H A/U Rated M107: Reporting for duty.
Why, you may ask, have I chosen to do a review on The Workshop? Well, I really only have one source of interaction with Twi-Fic readers anymore, and that is through my FaceBook page; simply because I’m so effing busy with RL. Sandy offered me the opportunity to write for SFFR, and I took the job because I don’t make time for myself to read other fics. I figured that if I had motivation to do so, then I would be more apt to push myself into reading.
But where to start? I checked out what my FB ladies were wall spamming each other with on their walls and this caught my eye:
“I haven’t laughed this hard since I read Progress!”
And THAT is why I had to head straight over and check out what DannielleR123 was cooking up at The Workshop.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I read a fic and it affected me so deeply that I felt…haunted. This story has stuck to me in such a magnificent way. Not like gum on a shoe, but more like when you see an amazing debate and both sides are so well educated that you think on the topic for days and ponder every word trying to figure out where your loyalty lies.
Dani’s writing does that to me. I can’t shake it.
What I had expected to be a story about restaurant workers and dirty kitchen sex is anything but: Bella Swan is the world’s second most famous chef and restaurateur. She is 26 and owns 10 restaurants, all of which she opens herself and runs while on the road. She has come to Miami to open a new establishment called, yes, The Workshop. She’s a hard ass, tough as nails boss who knows exactly what she wants and won’t settle for anything less from herself or any of her employees.
Her right hand man is Emmett, and apparently his brother lives in Miami as well and is need of a job. Who is the brother? Hot ass, tattooed covered, DILF Edward, that’s who. Edward needs a job to provide for his ridiculously cute 4 year old daughter, Nessie. He’s a self taught chef who screams ‘diamond in the rough’.
There is obvious attraction between E&B from the get-go, and the underlying sexual tension is so thick it’s painful at times, because your brain is screaming that they should just get it on, even though the sensible parts of Bella are explaining why it can’t happen. Except for her lady bits, sweetly named ‘Butterbean’ who seems to be the Devil in her pants.
Bella wants nothing more than to make Edward as good as he possibly can be. And in the process of teaching him, we end up seeing just what an amazing person she really is. As all Bella’s are, she has been broken by something in her past, but so has Edward. And I have to hand it to Dani, her Edward is one of the best Daddy’s I’ve read in a really long time. His devotion to Nessie wrenches your heart and makes you fall in love with him almost immediately.
The question is, can Bella and Edward let each other in and find happiness? I hope so, because these two have chemistry and a deep underlying love that feels so incredibly real.
The characters are real, and they speak like real people, think like real people, screw up in huge ways like real people…they have real problems. But they are funny and likeable, too. Bella’s got a foul mouth, Edward’s got temper issues and Emmett thinks with his dong. They trash each other with witty banter and it works. It really, really works. I can see the scenes played out in my head like a movie and it fascinates me to no end.
It’s obvious that Dani knows her subject matter very well, and I love that. When a writer knows what they are talking about it draws me in completely. Knowing how basketball works is one thing, but telling a story from inside of the game while you have your sweaty hands around the basketball is a whole different scenario. She brings a fresh approach to the culinary world that I know little about but am intrigued by, which keeps me reading to learn more.
The Workshop is hilarious, heartwarming and hot…three H’s that make me squeal. I’m so immensely grateful to have been directed over to read Dani’s work because I love it. Not only is her story amazing, but she’s a fantastic person with a ballsy sense of humor…my kinda girl.
Check out her links below and give her blog some love. She has some beautiful pictures of Edward in his full tattooed glory and some scorching hot banners for each chapter.
Link for The Workshop on FFN: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5384904/1/The_Workshop_A_Tale_Of_Edible_Delights
DanielleR123’s FFN page: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1989229/danieller123
Dani’s Twitter: @sweetdani123
TWS Edward’s Twitter: @TWS_SweetEdward
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