Chef’s Kiss
AUTHOR: Jarrett MelendezSERIES: Standalone graphic novel
PAGES:125 pages
PUBLISHER: Oni Press
RELEASE DATE: March 1st, 2022
*Recieved an arc via netgalley*
Thank you so much for allowing me the opportunity to read this!
Now that college is over, English graduate Ben Cook is on the job hunt looking for something…anything…related to his passion for reading and writing. But interview after interview, hiring committee after hiring committee, Ben soon learns getting the dream job won’t be as easy as he thought. Proofreading? Journalism? Copywriting? Not enough experience. It turns out he doesn’t even have enough experience to be a garbage collector! But when Ben stumbles upon a “Now Hiring—No Experience Necessary” sign outside a restaurant, he jumps at the chance to land his first job. Plus, he can keep looking for a writing job in the meantime. He’s actually not so bad in the kitchen, but he will have to pass a series of cooking tests to prove he’s got the culinary skills to stay on full-time. But it’s only temporary…right?
When Ben begins developing a crush on Liam, one of the other super dreamy chefs at the restaurant, and when he starts ditching his old college friends and his old writing job plans, his career path starts to become much less clear.
SUMMARY:
Watch things start to really heat up in the kitchen in this sweet, queer, new adult graphic novel! Now that college is over, English graduate Ben Cook is on the job hunt looking for something…anything…related to his passion for reading and writing. But interview after interview, hiring committee after hiring committee, Ben soon learns getting the dream job won’t be as easy as he thought. Proofreading? Journalism? Copywriting? Not enough experience. It turns out he doesn’t even have enough experience to be a garbage collector! But when Ben stumbles upon a “Now Hiring—No Experience Necessary” sign outside a restaurant, he jumps at the chance to land his first job. Plus, he can keep looking for a writing job in the meantime. He’s actually not so bad in the kitchen, but he will have to pass a series of cooking tests to prove he’s got the culinary skills to stay on full-time. But it’s only temporary…right?
When Ben begins developing a crush on Liam, one of the other super dreamy chefs at the restaurant, and when he starts ditching his old college friends and his old writing job plans, his career path starts to become much less clear.
Chef’s Kiss was exactly that a *chef’s kiss. It was such a lighthearted, fast paced graphics novel that I devoured in less than two hours. It’s only 125 pages, but that does not mean the quality is less. The graphics in this novel are absolutely stunning.
I’ll be honest, I haven’t read a graphic novel in quite some time, so at the beginning i had to really remember the basics left -> right reading and it took me a second to catch on to the flow of the dialogue, but that was defiantly all me and not the novel in the slightest. After a few pages, I was fully able to emerge myself into the plot of this story and it was absolutely just adorable.
There was no massive problems, just a cute little story. 100% would recommend if you are looking for a super cute short story involving LGTBQ+ love and a super cute meet cute :) ALSO, how can you not love the supper cute quirkiness of the story? I mean Watson, who is a pig, is the taste tester that stands between Ben getting this job haha. I loved it!
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