I’ve wanted to read this author for awhile. So when a holiday romance popped up, I jumped at the chance to read and review! This was a very quick and easy read. It had fun holiday aspects, especially with the setting of a town that was basically dedicated to Christmas all year long! 

Definitely a grumpy/sunshine but also an enemies to lovers romance too. Once upon a time, Nicholas and Noelle (perfect names for this story) were best friends. And then Nicholas – our grump/Christmas hating hero – moved away and when he asked Noelle to come with, but she said no because she loved the town, he told her they were over. When he comes back because he’s been given ownership of the town, the two meet and fireworks explode! 

Nicholas is flirty and can’t seem to keep from offering her innuendos and telling her exactly how he feels about her. Noelle can’t believe he really likes her that way at first, because why in the world would he have left her like he did? Things quickly heat up between the two of them, and they do get together. This book had a lot of spicy bedroom scenes. 

It reminded me of when I first started reading more romance and I looked for the books like this, almost at times speeding through the story to get to the steamy scenes. However these days I tend to put more interest into the story itself, and in some ways this fell a little short for me because at times there seemed to be more of those scenes than story. I also felt there were a few instances where the story jumped or skipped over something, and I’d have to go back a few pages to see what I’d maybe missed, but this time I didn’t find anything missed.

Overall I did enjoy it, especially all the fun Christmas puns and innuendos the two of them tossed back and forth both in banter as well as during the sexy times.