Overall Take:
Fun and raunchy holiday romance
Star Rating:
4 Stars
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Synopsis:
What happens when there’s no room at the inn and you and your potentially demonic cat become roommates with your grumpy one-night stand?
Part-time adult film actress/one-time adult film director/makeup artist Sunny Palmer has accidentally sold her very first screenplay to the Hope Channel. That was six months ago. Fast forward to a looming deadline, an uninspired Sunny has returned to the source of her inspiration in Christmas Notch, Vermont, to immerse herself in the local Christmas miracle on which her fever dream of a movie pitch was based.
Isaac Kelly, former boy band heartthrob and the saddest boy in the music biz, is the latest owner of the town’s historic mansion. After his years of heartbreak following his young wife’s death, Isaac’s record label is done waiting for new music. What better place to attempt his first holiday album than a snow-covered mansion where he can become a hermit in peace?
But after their best friends’ wedding leads to them waking up together in a freezing motel room with questionable wiring and a broken shower, Isaac takes a chance and asks Sunny to stay with him at his home. Surely the place is big enough that he’ll hardly see her or her unhinged cat. But when the two discover they’re both creatively blocked, they make a handshake deal: Isaac will help Sunny hunt down the truth behind the local lore, and Sunny will find Isaac a new muse.
And with these two opposites under one roof, there’s no way this jingle bell mingle could go off script…right?
Thoughts:
I just finished this book and I am so mad. Why? Because it is the last in this series. If you’ve read my reviews you might be scratching your head because I rarely read series, but when I do I am invested and never want it to end, and that is the case here. A tear was shed when I clicked off the last page.
Sunny and Issac were such a sweet couple. I really enjoyed their relationship and how it developed. I do think that this book is a little slower paced than the other two, but I was okay with it overall. This book does body positivity and intimate relationship positivity amazingly just like the other two books in the series. I think this is one of my favorite things about them. I also think that this book had more spice than the last book, and I really enjoyed how it all played out.
One of my favorite things about this book was that the characters from the previous books came back to make appearances in this book and we were given some closure on all the couples. This one did wrap up a little quickly for how the rest of the book was paced, but after 400 pages I was alright with it (despite wanting more – conflicting I know).
I love that the authors called this a raunch-com. I’d never heard that term but it totally fit.
I would recommend you read the entire series in order for this book to make the most sense.Publication Date:
September 24, 2024
Author:
Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone
Page Length:
400 pages
Publisher:
Avon Harper
Thank you to:
Thank you to Avon and Harper Voyager, Avon Books @avonbooks and @netgalley for an e-arc. All thoughts are my own.
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