Without fail, I will love the first book in an Alexis Hall series, but then be sorely disappointed in the 2nd. So it makes me nervous that I love this one so much and there's supposedly another one in this world coming after. But I'll still give it a shot because when Hall is good, they are really fucking good.

Sam works for Jonathon in a Bed, Bath, and Beyond style megastore and through hijinks that barely make sense, Sam has to pretend to have amnesia so that Jonathon won't fire him. It's straight out of AO3, but in a good way? Also, since Husband Material was Four Weddings and a Funeral, I'm getting Christmas Carol vibes from this book and I really fuckin dig it.

I feel like Sam and Jonathon had zero chemistry in the first half and I'm pretty sure it was past 200 pages by the time we got a sentence about J smiling. But once they broke through that ice? woo buddy were we off to the races. Hall's characters never do anything by half measures. Once they're in, they're in with no looking back.

I wish we could have gotten more of Sam's history and background instead of just a half-chapter at the very end. Would it have changed their relationship faster? Probably not, but I feel like parts of Sam's personality would have been easier to explain and digest if it was known.