Shireen Malik has recently broken up with her girlfriend Chris who is the daughter of her parents’ competitors. The Maliks own a donut shop in Dublin called Your Drive Me Glazy. Shireen gets the chance to compete in a television baking show, the Junior Irish Baking show with judges Máire Cherry, Galvin Cramsey and Padma Bollywood and presenter Katherine Keogh. One catch, Chris is also a contestant and they are only two girls of Asian descent in the show. And they get a lot of negative feedback online for not being ‘real’ Irish.
One of the other girls, red-haired Niamh from Belfast, seems interested in Shireen and keeps inviting her to her house. She sort of dismisses all the racist comments online and compares them to her being called the ginger one. When they reach the end of the semi final, Shireen’s bake has been sabotaged. Was it Chris as Shireen suspects or was it someone else?
I liked Shireen as a character, and was very surprised she didn’t completely cut Niamh off after she dismissed the overt racism online. I can’t stand bigotry in any shape or form. This is the second book by Adiba Jaigirdar that I have read and they were both lovely!
Read for The 52 Book Club Reading Challenge 2025
Prompt 1: A Pun in the Title
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
