The Particular Sadness of Lemon cake

Goodreads summary

On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother—her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother—tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose.

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The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden—her mother’s life outside the home, her father’s detachment, her brother’s clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.

  Rose is such an incredible and interesting  narrator. It was really interesting   seeing the different emotions   she  tasted and how she reacted  to them.  It was also interesting how  she managed  day after day with her talent and how different people reacted to her   gift. As the story progresses,  Rose  becomes more comfortable with her gift, she  also grows  to love food and tries to eat  food  that has just pure happiness in the food.

The other  characters  in the  story were wonderful too. I really  loved her  Dad and how persistent he was and how  much he used to love Rose's  mom. I also loved   Joseph and how detached   from the world  he was,  in a both literal and  figurative sense. I also really loved    George and how he instantly believed  in Rose, and I think they would have made a  great  couple.

 Rose's mom is such a complex character, she's broken inside, she doesn't know what to do with  her life. She loves Joseph so much and he's  clearly her  favorite  child but he doesn't  really care.  She loves Rose    too but  in a different way.   Her affair  helps  her be less  broken and  helps her cope with Joseph's dissapearence. I honestly feel that she never  really truly  loved her husband and she just thought she did

 I really liked the writing style,  it  was  very raw and emotional and it was really not  what I was  expecting. The only thing that bugged me  was that there  was no  quotation marks but after awhile  I go used to it.

 overall I really  really enjoyed, it was  sad and beautiful  tale and I gave it a 4/5  stars on Goodreads