I was very excited when I first heard about this book. And when I picked it up, it was really good, different actually than what I’d expected, but in a good way! I really liked the way the author created this holiday world, where all the holidays had their own little cities and royal families, etc. The fact that Santa’s two sons were named Nicholas and Kris, you know, St. Nick and Kris Kringle? That was perfect. I loved the prince of Halloween too, Hex. Hex and Nicholas, who went by Coal, were so cute together. Coal was so much fun too. Of course we got to meet him right after he’d created a huge debacle by trying to fulfill all of one city’s unfilled Christmas letter wishes. Only by doing that, it created a huge hit on the economy of that city because of all the fallout. It was then that he met Hex, although he didn’t know who Hex was. 

Santa, or Coal and Kris’s dad, was not the jovial benevolent man we think of. It came of course from the fact that their mother had left and so all three of them were suffering and dealing with their grief in their own way. Santa’s way was to get joy from other holidays in order to get it so that it was worldwide. However the way they got the joy wasn’t a great way once Coal found out how it really was done. Their dad decreed that Coal would marry the Easter princess Iris, who was Coal and Kris’s best friend, and also Kris might have liked her a little more, even if he’d never told her. When Halloween tried to do something to stop their combining like this, they set it up so that now Hex was going to compete to marry her and she would choose.

When they found out it was a fake setup, that Christmas intended to just keep Hex there in order to show his power and still get Coal to marry her. Things got a bit crazy and tense. Coal and Hex were actually the ones really into each other. They tried to come up with a way to stop this and make things better. Similar to how Halloween worked with the other fall holidays. And as you’d expect, things did not go smoothly. Including at one point Coal’s father finding out and forbidding it and trying to cause it to be stopped.

I won’t go on, as I think you should read it and see yourself. This is an adult romance, as we get sex scenes between Coal and Rex that are not closed door. I really loved this world and think that the next book, supposed to be about Kris, should be good too.