Hello everyone!
It's time for my second book blog in this Christmas themed blogging experience, and as I've already said I'm taking four books of the same author this year and putting them up one by one, though not perhaps in the sequence I read them in.
I mean, to be fair, a lot of these are short, sexysweet and to the point, which means I don't need that much time to read them anyway.
And that's okay!
I love the fact that you don't have to spend weeks gnawing through thousands of pages, even though I will happily do just that if the proper book occasion calls for it. But when it's about Christmas stories, it kind of makes much more sense that you'd go through them fast and easy and with a sharp staccato beat that makes you smile.
Keira Andrews doesn't usually disappoint in her delivery of humour, romance, and sexy times, so chances are any book of hers you pick up will be worth your while.
So why don't we start talking about Where the Lovelight Gleams?
You can find the link to the review of last week's chosen book, In Case of Emergency, at the bottom of this blog post, and as we go along all of them will be linked below.
Of course, once again, this will be a gay romance story with a happily ever after. So if you're not into that kind of book, you should probably stop reading right now, though if you're curious but don't want to read the actual book just yet, read on and decide whether or not it'll be somthing worth picking up.
Where the Lovelight Gleams tells the story of Ryan and Cary, two actors in Hollywood who are filming a TV show, Space Academy. In this show, they play high school students at a school orbiting some distant moon of a planet we haven't discovered yet, and one of them is kind of an alien, but the massive point is that, in the show, the plot is leading them together to become a couple.
Which for Ryan means a hell of a lot of sleepless nights, because he's gay, and out of the closet, and he has a massive crush on Cary, too.
However, Cary's straight, he has a girlfriend, Amanda, and he's also Ryan's best friend, so maybe rocking the boat doesn't sound like the best idea possible.
Cary's quite protective over Ryan for some of the hate mail the other guy gets, but the show is winding down for the Christmas holidays (and I can SO relate because most of the shows I watch have now gone on a hiatus until 2019 too!) and while Cary is off to the desert with his girlfriend, Ryan's going to Canada to spend Christmas with his family.
He does extent an invitation for Cary to join him if he wants, seeing as with parents that kept getting divorced and married and filming and such, he never really had a white Christmas before.
Of course he doesn't expect anything to come of it, until basically just a day or so before, he gets a call from Cary himself, who says he broke up with Amanda and could he actually come to the family cottage? He's in Canada anyway.
Ryan's stoked, and slightly freaked out, but his family is welcoming and warm (and a little bit teasing) towards Cary and they ARE still friends.
Even if Ryan's crush has SO not gone away.
And you'd think things would go smoothly, but nope, because while cutting down the tree for the living room, Ryan and Cary frolick around the snow and end up kissing, though both of them are embarrassed and awkward and unsure afterwards.
Why you ask?
Well turns out Cary's been sort of kind of crushing on Ryan too, but he's never really felt that way about a guy before and he's convinced Ryan wants him to leave. Luckily for the both of them, when they do end up talking about it in the fishing hut, they also end up kissing the living daylights out of each other when they realize, hey, the other guy likes me back!
And it seems to be going well, even the sex though Cary's never done it before with a guy, but he does admit to wanting Ryan very, very badly. As Christmas nears, however, the pair get into an argument about how to deal with this once they get back to LA from Canada, considering Cary wants to wait a little to figure things out for himself and Ryan is insulted that he won't just come out.
Or something.
DRAMA.
Extra drama included when poor Cary has ice crack underneath him on the narrow part of the lake and he goes into the icy water, but it does prompt a rational conversation between the two guys and they decide to figure things out as they go (needless to say, however, Ryan's family is thrilled).
A year later, despite Cary's family mostly still on the outs with him because of his sexuality, the couple is back at the cottage with Ryan's family and spending another Christmas together in a loving, warm environment.
And wouldn't you know it, that nameless stocking Cary got his first year now proudly displays his name, making him a full member of the family.
THE END
As stated previously, there are very few, if any books, by Ms Andrews that don't make the cut. This one surprised me a little on the second read, however, because I remember how much I loved it the first time around, and I still enjoyed it this time. But I mostly thought Ryan was pushing for too much, too fast, and not giving Cary any time whatsoever to adjust to the fact that, as someone who had considered himself straight all his life, he was now attracted to guys (or one guy specifically). I feel like Ryan was a bit blinded by coming from such an accepting family, and he felt all would be well with Cary too, which didn't prove to be that way even when they DID make their relationship public.
So that would be my only sort of nit-pick, though I guess it was necessary for the dramatic part of the book.
Still, it's a lovely Christmas read, and of course I recommend it!
xx
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