Overall this was a fun holiday romance and perfect to pick up if you want something outside of the normal holiday romancee! However, his career has been going downhill since he had a couple of scandals after the band broke up.

It might’ve taken approximately a month and a half to get to me from the other side of the world, but it was worth every day waiting to hold it! my ever-growing stack of her books) so when I saw she was teaming up with Sierra for a spicy Christmas book with a plus-size heroine? If you’re looking to get hot under the sweater this time of year, this firecracker-of-a-book that sizzles hot enough to melt the Christmas snow is your perfect read.

Her notable works include Priest , American Queen , and Misadventures of a Curvy Girl , and her books have been featured in Marie Claire , Cosmopolitan , Entertainment Weekly , and Buzzfeed . Before writing full time, she held numerous jobs, such as wedding dress consultant, failed barista, and, ultimately, librarian. I felt like they had such a mature relationship and communicated what they wanted and how they felt which I really loved for them.

But she isn’t described, so to be honest I just pictured her as thin throughout as quite a few of the sex things she does would be a bit tricky/need ingenious solutions in a larger body and it’s inauthentic not to reflect this in the writing IMO. On set, Bee has to keep her Bianca-sized secret to herself (and some of the crew that know) which becomes harder when her co-star and former childhood crush Nolan Shaw recognises her. Tyler in Priest became a priest because he wants to make a difference within the church and because of his strong faith, and he struggles with how to balance this with his lust (and later love) for Poppy. The story moves at a good pace with no real slow points and I pretty much felt good all the way through. I got a little stressed halfway through just waiting for everything to blow up and cause issues for them, so the middle dragged a bit and was a little slow for me, but overall I loved the book.We already met Angel and I’d like to read the stories about his other family members) He’s definitely secret weapon of the book! This is just as bad as a shitty hallmark film, except it is 400 pages long, so you end up spending 7 hours immersed in this god-forsaken Christmas story. This was the perfect balance of everything I love in a spicy romcom and everything i love about cheesy hallmark movies! Something I really enjoyed and appreciated about this book is all the body positivity and sex work positivity.

Miss Murphy does not give her readers the vulnerable moment between the characters to connect more deeply. Bee and Nolan spend the story trying to fight off their desire while also trying to hide secrets that could be the end of them. Favourite authors include Mary Balogh, Susanna Kearsley, Joanna Bourne, Tammara Webber, Kristen Ashley, Shannon Stacey, Sarah Mayberry, JD Robb/Nora Roberts, KA Mitchell, Marie Sexton, Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews, just to name a few. He needs this movie to work out for the sake of his family, and he’ll do anything to show the world the new and improved Nolan. He’s producing a movie for the pristine Hope Channel, a holiday movie that is being shot over Christmas.

The writing is seamless – there is no obvious change from one author to another – and funny, from the hilarity which ensues from having a costume director used to working in porn suddenly thrust (pardon the pun) into a time travel Christmas movie involving a duke, period clothing, the efforts the porn crew and Bee make to keep their other jobs secret and Nolan’s attempts to not let on that he knows who Bee is, to the metaphors used. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Even Bee, the stronger of the two, just wasn't able to shoulder the burden of this story and I don't feel enough time was really spent with her enjoying the filming and acting process. Besides the fact I can read these sentences coherently, I don’t like a single thing about this story.