3.5 stars
It's good to be back to Christmas Falls, I love this little town and its never ending Christmas. I loved the author's book of season 1 of this series, Hayden and Joel's story and I'm a little bummed I didn't totally connect with this one.

I really really liked Leo: he's a hopeless romantic, he's looking for the love of his life, he fell in love with the vibes of the city after visiting it several times and decided to move there. He's personality is the complete opposite of Nick's.
He's a very confusing man: he's still grieving his wife (who passed away three and half years before the start of the story), he doesn't believe in the forever kind of love anymore but, at the same time, he wants to help people to find what he and his wife had; he wants Leo (at least physically) but he doesn't want casual sex nor he's not ready to date. He gets jealous of a couple of guys Leo had chances with, but he ghosted Leo after having wonderful sex with him.
Because of Nick, I found it difficult connect with this story: it's supposed to be a romance between two men, but Nick's late wife has still such a huge part in her husband's life and she's present through all the book because he constantly talks about her.

The third part of the book was good: I loved all the dates Nick planned and I liked how he was adamant to show Leo he valued him more than just sex. It was very good to see them together building their relationship.

(side note: the Evanston aren't having the best season, but I'm happy Gabriel Theriault is still awesome!)

I received an ARC of this book from Neon Rainbow and this is my honest review.