Heat Factor: Holy arm porn, batman! Plus: 🍆🍆🍆
Character Chemistry: Checks every box
Plot: Hallmark Christmas Special, complete with twee alpine monarchy
Overall: I am cackling with glee
Review: A Princess for Christmas by Jenny Holiday (2020)
Tag: New York
Review: Three Little Words by Jenny Holiday (2019)
Bridesmaids Behaving Badly, Book 3
Heat Factor: So steamy!
Character Chemistry: Each understands what the other needs without words. Plus great banter. Basically, perfection.
Plot: Bridesmaid and Best Man need to travel from New York to Florida in the middle of a snowstorm in time to get to the wedding.
Overall: I felt lied to by the blurb, but the emotional payoff was so good that I didn’t care.
Review: By a Thread by Lucy Score (2020)
Heat Factor: It’s on fire to the MAX.
Character Chemistry: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my. Waiting for these two to get it going was like waiting to turn 6 when you’re 5.
Plot: So. Dominic takes over for his philandering, sexual assault-y lump of a father at his mother’s company. Ally is barely keeping it together trying to take care of her father, who has Alzheimer’s and needs to stay in his very expensive care facility. Dominic gets Ally fired from her job in a pizzeria, and Dominic’s mother hires Ally to work at their very intense fashion house.
Overall: This book was absolutely mind-bogglingly good.
Review: A Widow’s Guide to Scandal by Hallie Alexander (2020)
Sons of Neptune, Book 1
Heat Factor: Sometimes you gotta bang on the kitchen floor
Character Chemistry: They are really mean to each other, but they seem to like it
Plot: Marcus breaks his ankle fixing Henrietta’s roof, and is stuck in her house while he heals. Plus there’s some light espionage action.
Overall: I had some problems with the writing style
Review: Resolutions by Lucy Eden (2019)
Heat Factor: Steamy enough to satisfy.
Character Chemistry: They are pretty darn cute together.
Plot: In an attempt to stop being such a weenie after failing to tell her best friend she’s in love with him, Jane sets out to tackle a huge list of resolutions. When said best friend sees the list, he volunteers to help her finish them off before the New Year.
Overall: I just want to pinch their cheeks because of all the cuteness.
