Keep Calm and Carry a Big Drink (There's Cake in My Future) by Kim Gruenenfelder

***** 5 stars
This is a follow-up book from There's Cake in My Future, which I simply loved. I didn't realize this had been released and was very eager to start as soon as I downloaded it to my Kindle. I had high hopes for this as the previous was a great read, I definitely was not disappointed. I loved the characters and it was great to see where a year had taken them. I think my only complaint was the ending was a bit short but there was a great epilogue at the end, which I was more than happy to see. I truly hope to see more by this character, as her books always seem to pull me in quickly and enjoy :)
Please be sure if you haven't read "There's Cake in My Future" that you take the time before picking this one up. You won't be disappointed.

Book Jacket Summary:
It's been almost a year since Mel, Nic and Seema pulled their magical charms out of the cake at Nic's bridal shower and most of their happily-ever-afters seemingly came true. Seema is about to marry Scott in an elaborate three-day affair. Nic is glowingly pregnant. And Mel... well, Mel feels as if she accidentally veered off the rails of her life at some point and isn't sure how to get back on. She recently became single again, she's been threatened with a layoff from her teaching job, and she has to find her own place now that Scott is moving in with her roommate, Seema.
Nic thinks Mel just needs a new cake charm to bring her good luck. . . and decides to rig the cake pull at Seema's bridal shower. Desperate for travel, Mel asks for the passport charm. But, once again, the cake proves to have a mind of its own, and she pulls a charm she doesn't want, and can not use. Rather than be bound by the charm's prophecy, Mel realizes she, and she alone, is responsible for her destiny. A spur of the moment decision takes her to Paris and then Maui, where she finds herself on an adventure that she never could have imagined, experiencing the trials and tribulations of a life suddenly and perfectly unplanned. And, along the way, she begins to learn that, however nonsensical it may seem, the cake is never wrong...