Not Too Sweet is a contemporary romance novel featuring:

• rivals to lovers

• a dinosaur doppelgänger

• a cooking competition moderator with serious Hunger Games Effie Trinket vibes

• a sprinkle of nepotism

• a sweet Dad and an evil Dad

• and two Asian leads doing the “we share our culture through our food” thing in order to be legible to wider audiences — but damnit, they know it and are trying to represent a more complex picture