Tag: romance novellas

bingeable series, Christmas books

Christmas Series: Under the Mistletoe

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After I mentioned this on release a couple weeks back I tthought it was only fair to report back now I’ve read them all!

So as I said in my previous post, this is an Amazon special Christmas novella collection featuring some big name romance authors. I did try and pick a favourite – recency bias wants me to say Only Santas in the Building, but reviewing the others there wasn’t really one I don’t like – they’re all pretty good. I guess my least favourite was Merriment and Mayhem, but even that’s just a relative thing!

If you want a quick blast of Christmas spirit to read in between wrapping presents, decorating or preparing food ahead of time, these would make a good choice. I read them in order but you could start with your favourite (or least favourite!) author and go from there. I do recommend …only Santas or All By My Elf though.

These are Amazon exclusive – but also free if you have Kindle Unlimited. Here’s the link to the series so you can decide for yourself

Have a great weekend!

Book previews

Out This Week: Under the Mistletoe Collection

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This is one of those Amazon collections that are free if you’re in Kindle Unlimited and features five novellas from some of the big name romance novels at the moment. So there are stories from Ali Hazelwood, Tessa Bailey, Olivia Dade, Alexandria Bellefleur and Alexis Daria all around a Christmas or holiday theme. Olivia Dade is one of my favourites – and I’ve written about Hazelwood and Bellefleur before, so I’m looking forward to reading these – hopefully at some point in the run up to Christmas – and I’ll try to remember to report back!

Book of the Week, romantic comedy

Book of the Week: Grumpy Jake

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As I mentioned yesterday, it was a bit of a patchy week in reading last week, because it’s 2020 and all normal rules are suspended. You’ll hear more about Mr Wilder and Me at some in the (hopefully near) future, but today I want to talk about Melissa Blue’s novella Grumpy Jake.

Cover of Grumpy Jake

Bailey knows all about Jake the Rake. He’s been making his way through the single members of the faculty, while his son has been working his way through pre-school. Now Jayden is in Bailey’s Kindergarten class and it feels like it’s going to be a long year. And then they get stuck in a lift together and she starts to see what all her co-workers fell for. For his part Jake knows he shouldn’t fall for her, but he needs stability for his son. Bailey knows the clock is ticking – will she end up like all the others?

I mean I think you can probably answer that question now, but this novella is a lot of fun. It is a novella though and that means that perhaps there’s not as much time as you want for everything to develop and it all to play out. Most of the time here is focused on Bailey and Jake getting to know each other and it all wraps up quite quickly at the end. But it’s a lot of fun – really quite steamy – and Bailey keeps everything professional at work. It did exactly what I wanted it to do one evening last week and that’s basically the ideal for a story right? Fills the craving you have at the time.

You can get Grumpy Jake on Kindle – where it’s only 77p at the moment – and Kobo.

Happy Reading!