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Query: Friendship Cake Fell Flat

Friendship Cake fell a little flat for me. I had high expectations and was looking for a touching story about friendship. This novel does have a cute story about a circle of women who are all members of Hope Springs Community Church. In an effort to cultivate their friendships one of the ladies decides the group should work on a church cookbook. We get introduced to a little bit about each character's lives, but I felt that the author just scratched the surface and there wasn't a lot of substance. It is an easy, light read and if you liked The Persian Pickle Club, you would probably like this novel as well. I felt it had the right ingredients, but they just weren't stirred up enough to cook up any real emotion.