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    My Fine Fellow
    My Fine Fellow
    My Fine Fellow
    Audiobook10 hours

    My Fine Fellow

    Written by Jennieke Cohen

    Narrated by Hannah Curtis

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    About this audiobook

    Culinary delights abound, romance lingers in the air, and plans go terribly, wonderfully astray in this gender-bent take on My Fair Lady from Jennieke Cohen, author of Dangerous Alliance—perfect for fans of Bridgerton or A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue. 

    It’s 1830s England, and Culinarians—doyens who consult with society’s elite to create gorgeous food and confections—are the crème de la crème of high society.

    Helena Higgins, top of her class at the Royal Academy, has a sharp demeanor and an even sharper palate—and knows stardom awaits her if she can produce greatness in her final year.

    Penelope Pickering is going to prove the value of non-European cuisine to all of England. Her contemporaries may scorn her Filipina heritage and her dishes, but with her flawless social graces and culinary talents, Penelope is set to prove them wrong.

    Elijah Little has nothing to his name but a truly excellent instinct for flavors. London merchants won’t allow a Jewish boy to own a shop, so he hawks his pasties for a shilling a piece to passersby—but he knows with training he can break into the highest echelon of society.

    When Penelope and Helena meet Elijah, a golden opportunity arises: to pull off a project never seen before, and turn Elijah from a street vendor to a gentleman chef.

    But Elijah’s transformation will have a greater impact on this trio than they originally realize—and mayhem, unseemly faux pas, and a little romance will all be a part of the delicious recipe.

    Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

    Editor's Note

    Delectable…

    This novel is a delectable, gender-swapped rendition of “My Fair Lady” featuring three teens trying to enter high society with their supreme culinary skills. Elijah is a fine young Jewish fellow hawking pastries on the street who’s discovered by Helena and Penelope, two fair ladies ready to expand the palate of England’s citizens.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 11, 2022
    ISBN9780063047563
    My Fine Fellow
    Author

    Jennieke Cohen

    A lifelong lover of history and literature, Jennieke Cohen studied English history at Cambridge University before receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Davis. After interning with a literary agent and at Prima Games (an imprint of Penguin Random House), she entered the Master of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California. Cohen has worked as a writing consultant and as a ghostwriter and has written prescriptive nonfiction. She is a member of SCBWI, Romance Writers of America, and the Jane Austen Society of North America. When not writing or reading, Cohen can be found watching classic movies, drinking tea, singing opera and musical theater, and planning her next trip to England. She lives in California. You can visit her online at www.jenniekecohen.com, and find her on Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.

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    • 5/5
      A delightfully reimagined, multicultural rendition of My Fair Lady for foodies. Well-deserving of the Sydney Taylor award it just received.
    • 5/5
      A most wonderful listen. The culinary subject of this book was a great learning experience. All characters became real to me. The social problems of this time were the same of modern times.
    • 4/5
      I received a copy of this book for free from the publisher (Harper Teen) for promotional purposes.This was a really cute My Fair Lady retelling! I have seen My Fair Lady, but it was a while ago so I didn’t pick up on any of the references to it. If you’re a fan of the movie I’m sure you would appreciate those references. I loved that it was a gender swapped retelling. I also loved that Penelope was half Filipino and Elijah was Jewish and that their backgrounds were a central and integral part of the story. The book explored the prejudices that both of them faced. The three main characters were all well developed. I particularly liked seeing Helena’s character arc unfold and how her actions affected her friendships with Penelope and Elijah. Food is a big part of the story so do not read this book on an empty stomach. You will get hungry! Luckily there is a recipe at the end for the empanadas mentioned in the book. Since this is a retelling, the story is a little predictable and straightforward. There are no big surprises. Overall, I enjoyed this historical YA retelling of My Fair Lady. If you like reading about 1830s England or books about food, I recommend checking this book out.
    • 4/5
      Series Info/Source: This is a stand alone book. I got an eGalley of this through Edelweiss to review.Thoughts: This sounded like such a fun premise to me. This is a retelling of My Fair Lady, but in an alternate world where food and the Culinarians reign supreme. In this case Helena takes on a street urchin, Elijah, and is determined to turn him into a gentleman chef. Of course, things don’t go quite as Helena plans.I ended up being a bit disappointed in this. It takes quite a bit for the story to get going and then all the training Elijah goes through gets a bit long as well. In addition to that you have to slog through quite a names (mostly royalty of the time). I did end up liking the second half of the book a bit better and I enjoyed how it ended.Helena is a hard character to love and it was hard to watch Elijah try to bend to her teaching and whims. Penelope (a fellow culinary student who is Helena’s friend) does help to temper Elijah’s experience and I enjoyed the friendship that Elijah and Penelope formed. However, in general I found these characters a bit frustrating.This took me quite a while to read; it just wasn’t one of those books I really wanted to pick up and read. I had to force myself to sit down and read it but once I got into it I did enjoy some of what I read. The writing just didn’t flow all that well, although I do appreciate what the author was trying to do here.My Summary (3/5): Overall this was okay. I liked the concept and it was well thought out. I just felt like it was a bit slow and a bit unrealistic at times, I also felt that the characters were frustrating to read about. Lastly, the writing was a bit difficult to get into and didn’t flow all that well. Still, I did enjoy some aspects of the story. I guess I would recommend this if a retelling of “My Fair Lady” with some twists sounds really exciting to you.