Practice Cake (Romantic Comedy) (Life in Saltwater City) [Kindle Edition]

Dalya Moon (Author)

Book Description

"Practice Cake is sad, funny, romantic, real, and just plain wonderful to read. I loved every witty minute of it."

- Paperback Princesses

 

Maddie Bird is out of high school. Whoopee. This summer is turning out to be, in blogger Chloe's words, "hashtag, the worst." The weather's cold, the economy sucks, and the city is overrun with hockey playoff bandwagoners.

 

At least Maddie has a bakery job she loves. She's never had much money, but she is a hard worker. There's just one problem: her flirty co-worker, Drew. All it takes is one of his sly winks, and she's incinerating the cookies.

 

Maddie's best friend keeps pushing her cousin Hudson as a potential love-puppy. He's clever and has nice brown eyes, but he's so arrogant. Which is ironic, since the guy's hobby is making origami. Come on. Origami?

 

Maddie tries to focus on her career and stay away from bad-boy Drew, but fate, in the form of a reality show, keeps pushing them together. They spend an evening at his house, working on re-branding for the bakery, and one hot makeout session changes everything. That's right. Everything's about to get way worse.

 

Chock full of imperfect people behaving badly, Practice Cake is light-hearted and brimming with humor.

 

"5 Stars ... Dalya Moon never disappoints me. Not only her writing style is amazing, but also her stories are wonderful. First she introduced me to Charlie, a really sweet girl, but at the same time, very strong and brave. And now, she comes with another lovely story full of incredible characters and real life situations."

- Idris, Throwing Books

"I ate this book up. Great characters, fantastic story line, ample humor, it's all there!"
- Jessica of Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile

 

"(Dalya) Moon has created a hilarious novel; she's a wonderful storyteller, capturing the reader's attention from the very beginning."
- Book Vacations

Editorial Reviews

Review

"I laughed so hard I cried."
- Cheryl Archbold, Goodreads

From the Author

Practice Cake is Book 1 in the Life in Saltwater City series.
Book 2, Smart Mouth Waitress, is now available!

Each book is a stand-alone novel, set in Saltwater City, aka Vancouver.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• File Size: 641 KB
• Print Length: 238 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005Y1APLY
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #140,967 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Where's the sequel?! December 10, 2011

By Marita Fowler

Format:Kindle Edition

Dalya Moon crafts a story chocked full of dramatic events, but skillfully weaves them around her main character, Maddie. You find yourself unsure which path would be best for young Maddie as you step through the events with her. I recognized some of my own youthful experiences in the plotline and it was easy to immerse myself.

Dalya's writing style is light and quick. She stays true to her characters age by introducing realistic complications and corruptible supporting characters.

It's like Chocolat for YA.

I hope there's a sequel!!! There are so many characters that I want to read more about.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun read with moral December 8, 2011

By dpappas

Format:Kindle Edition

I won this book from a Librarything Member's Giveaway. I thought the whole idea of the bakery reality show to be a great idea for a book so I was really interested in reading this book. After reading it I have mixed views on it. To me it seemed like two different people wrote this book. The writing style in the beginning is different than the writing style in the middle and end. To be quite honest when I was in the beginning of the book I thought I wouldn't end up liking the book. In the beginning the story seemed a little confusing and the characters seemed odd. This is not the case for the rest of the book.

I actually became really into the story after the first couple chapters. The writing seemed to change and the story grew, for lack of a better word, deeper. The characters were entertaining, the story was interesting and I couldn't wait to see what would happen between Maddie and Drew. I found myself satisfied with what happened at the end of the book and I would actually consider reading a sequel if one were to come out. I overall enjoyed the book, except for the whole change in writing style thing, I would recommend this to teenage girls.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Contemporary Read December 10, 2011

By Chandra Haun

Format:Kindle Edition

In Practice Cake by Dalya Moon, Maddie is in her last weeks of high school, when she takes a job at a local bakery. Her first day at the bakery is a disaster, when her new co-worker Drew distracts her. Drew is gorgeous, and Maddie develops a crush, the problem being her boyfriend Parker. It does not help matters that her best friend, Jaslene, does not like Parker at all. Parker also does not approve of her taking a lowly job on being a baker's assistant.

In the beginning of Practice Cake, the bakery Maddie works for is not doing extremely well. After hearing a large chain bakery store was moving in a few blocks down, Maddie is determined to come up with a unique idea to attract new customers, and save the bakery. Coming up with this new baked good, attracts the attention of the Bakery Network. They want to film a reality TV show at the bakery where Maddie works, and make Maddie the star. While Maddie is nervous about being on TV, she knows if it goes well it could save the bakery. Maddie grows closer to Drew, and further away from Parker.

I really enjoyed read Practice Cake, The whole story, Maddie struggles trying to save the bakery, dealing with friends and family, and her feelings with Drew. At times, her friend, Jaslene, gets jealous, because of the reality show. Maddie is a very relatable character, and I really felt for her when things did not go her way. I have not really read a contemporary book in a while, so it was great to escape into Practice Cake.

I think anyone enjoys a good contemporary book would enjoy Practice Cake. This book is geared towards a YA audience, with underage drinking preferably an older YA audience. Thank you Dalya for letting me read your amazing novel! I truly enjoyed Practice Cake!

**Unabridged Bookshelf recived this book from the author in exchange for an honest review**

More About the Author

Dalya Moon is a nerd. A geek. A girl who wears glasses and receives few passes.

Her two dream jobs are:
- Directing movies
- Writing stories

As she has no training at directing movies, plus she hears the movie business is HARD, with a lot of standing around in uncomfortable weather, she has stuck with story-writing, and most days she's very happy with that decision.

Come say hi on Facebook: www.facebook.com/dalyamoon
Official website: www.dalyamoon.com

P.S. Dalya also writes New Adult Contemporary Romance and *other stuff* under the name Mimi Strong.