Around a pastry competition, the book tells the life stories of five women and one man. It's light as a souffle, but unfortunately the story never really takes off. It is a little bored, you do not learn much either in the kitchen, or in the lives of heroes, stereotypes, which I have not managed to identify. The end, agreed, seems a bit fast. This is a book for the holidays but I would not recommend because once closed, as quickly forgotten.