Perfect summer read! You get to take a big Italian adventure form the comfort of your own home! Slow burn turned hot/heavy romance! It very much gave me the perfect hallmark movie type of vibes; that found sense of family. What do you do when the only connection you desperately want to have with your deceased father is his unfinished cookbook! You finish it! And travel to places he wanted to go, experience the beautiful country side in Italy and maybe a little love along the way!!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!

This is a sweet romcom. I enjoyed the Italian vibes and it reminded me a lot of one Italian summer with the atmosphere, but even better. All the food references made me want to travel to Italy or at least cook something up while watching the movie Luca. Overall if you want a book with atmosphere I’d grab this one, but aside from that I didn’t connect with much else such as the characters.

I thoroughly enjoyed Just One Taste by Lizzy Dent. The journey of Olive and Leo, set against the rich backdrop of Italy, was both heartwarming and engaging. Their evolving relationship, intertwined with culinary adventures, made for a delightful read.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing an ARC. All opinions expressed are my own.

Overall, I do think this was a really good book! Definitely made me feel a lot of feels and had a lovely ending! Would recommend this if you want a short summer read! I can't wait to read more by Lizzy Dent!

This one was a bit slow (I’m not a foodie) and the main characters lacked the chemistry I was looking for. Still cute though.

Lizzy Dent is my go-to for fun and sweet bingeable rom coms! JUST ONE TASTE was no exception! I read this book in under 48 hours. It was the perfect pool side read. I absolutely adored the FMC and found her so relatable! I love any stories involving food or restaurants so this one was especially up my alley. Olivia and Leo’s chemistry was palpable!!

I love both travel-together and enemies-to-lovers tropes in romances, so the combination of them here was a winner. I'm not usually one to love the food-themed romances, but it works well here since the focus is more on the cookbook and the family connections. Solid character development and good pacing for the romance.

I thought this was very good and I will have to add this to the shop shelves. Thank you for the chance for us to review.

First of all, the cover of this novel is adorable and deserves a shoutout!

On to the story, Just One Taste is a cute romance/contemporary fiction that throws together our sort of enemies to lovers, Olive and Leo. Olive's got some obvious resentment towards Leo as he was incredibly close to her father prior to his passing, after Olive and her father fell out. Now, they're forced together to promote a cookbook on tour in the most romantic of scenery.

It's a cute, boisterous and full-bodied romance novel that will transport you to beautiful Italian locales while our unwitting protagonists fall in love and hate at the same time.

Let’s just start by saying the cover of this book is straight up adorable, and I’m obsessed. I loved getting to explore the Italian countryside and dream of eating all the food I want with Olive and Leo. However, I felt like our two MCs, while loveable, lacked chemistry. I didn’t get the giddy, kick-my-feet, butterfly feeling from those two like I was hoping. Overall fun and enjoyable book for the most part but would’ve liked to have been more excited about our MCs.

This is the perfect summer or vacation romance! It will make you want to travel, and luckily I read it while on a road trip with my family. You will want ALLLLLL the pasta, so maybe plan a little Italian dinner when you read.

Olive is a wonderful FMC, and while you will have moments of frustration with her, she is very believable and will feel like one of your best friends by the end. Leo is absolutely book boyfriend material.

There are several rom-com tropes covered here: enemies-to-lovers, only one bed, and forced proximity. There is a lot of depth to this story, including some heartache with complicated family relationships and death of a parent. They are handled beautifully with a kind touch.

Love this book, just hoping for a recipe book to come out next. ;)

Did I just return from a vacation in the Italian countryside? It sure feels like it after reading Just One Taste!
Olive's estranged father leaves his restaurant, Nicky's, to her when he passes away. He includes the final request that she complete the cookbook he'd been working on--and she must do so by traveling to three Italian destinations with his sous chef, Leo.
The journey is as delicious and delightful as you could imagine.

Thank you NetGalley for this arc!

I really enjoyed this one! The love story was sweet, but the best part was the connection to the environment. I truly felt like I was along on the trip with Leo and Olive in Italy. Such a great short read.

I would inject this very complicated enemies-to-lovers straight into my veins. Truly amazing. Toss in a little bit of daddy trauma, and this book is speaking my language. Would absolutely recommend.

This was a quick easy read that left me wanting to travel to Italy immediately! There was a good balance of the light hearted topics sprinkled with some heavier ones and it was just right.

This book did some things well- mainly the descriptions of food and the Italian setting. Anyone with a strong interest in those things has a good chance they’ll connect with this story. The romance side of it was fine- but anyone looking to read romance specifically may not be satisfied. The main character’s attraction for the mmc was very apparent and there was some tension there, but not as much as you would hope for a romance. There was no third act breakup, which I appreciated, but the tension kind of disappears as soon as they get together. The twist towards the end was unexpected, but it seemed just a little random and although the main character’s grief was well written, it was resolved maybe just a little too quickly considering how hard she is hit with it. Overall this book was enjoyable, but it’s not something I’ll think about later.
Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin for providing me access to this eARC for my honest opinion!

Very fun, quick read! I loved the characters and storyline :)

Thank you NetGalley and Lizzy Dent!

I loved the set-up for this romance. Nothing better than all that tension coming from the situation with the restaurant and her dad. However, I wished for more spark between the two characters and felt their romance fell a little flat. Loved the friends and secondary characters, as well as the conflict with the mom.

Be warned, this book will have you wanting to take a trip to Italy ASAP. This was fun, but heavy at times, and I really enjoyed the cookbook writing aspect of it. While not my favorite of Lizzy Dent's books, I still really liked this.

This is my first read by Lizzy Dent, and it most certainly won’t be my last. I love, love, love romance novels, but I truly love when they’re a little more than I expect. Yes, I want my HEA and no, I’m not a high-angst reader, but I like some depth. Just One Taste strikes the perfect note. Travel, food, enemies to lovers (one of my FAVE tropes), great friendships, and great banter are all done so well, but it also dealt with some heavier subjects. Not enough to scare anyone away, but the perfect amount to make this more than a romcom. And don’t get me wrong, “just” a romcom is great in my book. This one just had that extra little oomph. Five stars. Highly recommend.