Katastrophe Chef

Cinnamon, a spice trader determined to avoid “Chosen One” status and Quests, celebrates her non-selection by getting very drunk. On the wobbly walk home (courtesy of her cheesemonger best friend, Brie), she casually recognizes and takes down a mugger with an apple. After fleeing into the woods, she rescues a handsome stranger pinned under some rocks—who promptly reveals he’s a demon and tries to attack her. She fends him off with a cinnamon branch (naturally). The demon, having realized her namesake spice is the only thing that breaks the Goddess’s (who is secretly a lich) control over him, later shows up at her house and crashes the family breakfast, no longer trying to kill her. Instead, he demands she help him take down the lich-Goddess and free his monster-demon people. Cinnamon agrees, mostly because he promised not to harm her family. They successfully destroy the first temple, only for him to find out there are three more to go.

Cinnamon then finds herself as an impromptu Chosen One on a Quest to save the land with a demon who is way too hot and flirty for her to handle. 

This is the first of a series by Kimberly Lemming, who writes hilarious, slightly unhinged, SPICY romantasy stories filled with atypical heroes and heroines that feel more like people you might know in real life than bigger-than-life saviors most fantasy books have. 

I really enjoyed this. I read it in less than 24 hours (stupid work getting in the way of reading). I would say I liked Kimberly Lemming’s other book, “I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com” more, but this is still up there in enjoyability. 

You can read it on Kindle Unlimited here: https://amzn.to/429YGjC