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Title: Why Cheese

Author: Ellen Mint

Page count: 353

Published: April 16th, 2024

Publisher: Netgalley

Genre: Romance Comedy

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

Rock-hard men in the sheets, delectable cheese in the streets.

Violette Reely walks into her great uncle’s abandoned cheese shop then promptly runs back out. You would too if you discovered a secret basement hiding beneath a trapdoor. One second, there’s nothing down there but cheese wheels in an old chest, the next four naked men are chasing her out the door.

Refusing to give up the million-dollar property to her wild imagination, Violette returns the next day. Despite the place being ransacked, she’s certain she made up those mysterious men who vanished inside a locked store. Then, as the sun sets, cheeses lying on piles of discarded clothing roll across the floor until they poof into the four men from last night.

Men who transform into cheese.

What the hell?

Stoic and domineering, Roq’s the de facto leader keeping everyone in line. Everyone that is but Cam, the charming playboy whose smooth lines melt the hardest rinds. Cheddy is a tall hunk of joy, as easy to like as his namesake. And last, but never forgotten, is Brie. Soft-spoken, with an artistic soul, he’s the sweet wallflower waiting for the right person to scoop him up.

These strange cheese-shifters need Violette’s help. They need someone to protect them when they’re trapped as cheese by day. But, after centuries of being screwed over by their caretakers, they’re wary. No one is slower to trust than Roq who expects betrayal at every corner. Even if Violette agrees to help them sell off their secret cheese stash and find a new place, he cuts her down at every turn keeping her at arm’s length. He’s hiding a secret that could destroy everything he’s fought for across the world.

But Violette has one of her own. If these cheese-men ever find out, it’ll curdle her heart.

Can the hardest of cheeses find it in himself to let his heart melt or will these cheese-shifters find themselves chewed up and spat out by life? Will Violette sell off the shop and make off with millions or risk the possibility of cheddar days for these cheesy men?

This is the first book that I have read by this author, I don’t think its going to be my last this was a read that I didn’t know that I needed. I’ve read books about men turning into other animals but when I read, they turn into cheese men turn into cheese… yup you read that right. I was thinking going into this was going to be an interesting to see and was going to be a DNF but it actually was the complete opposite. Violette gets ownership of her uncle’s cheese shop when he passes. She has plans to sell the shop but when four men Cam, Roq, Cheddy and Brie come into her life to hopefully chance her mind? This was one that kept me on the edge of my seat. This has a lot of cheese puns that were laugh out loud moments. I need to go and see what other books this author has that I can read.