(If you’re thinking “The Great British Baking Show,” you’re on the right track.) Paris and Tariq meet as competitors on “Bake Expectations,” a famous television cooking competition show. The titular character, a baker with devastating anxiety and self-doubt in spite of his beauty, talent and privilege, falls for Tariq Hassan, a charismatic young Muslim with ambition and confidence to spare. The second Winner Bakes All romance after 2021’s Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake, Paris is a bittersweet play on the opposites-attract trope. His ambitious new novel, Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble, demonstrates the magnitude of his talents. The prodigiously gifted Alexis Hall spins pathos, sex and humor into frothy yet sensitive paeans to love.
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