Hello everyone!
I hope you've all had a wonderful time, whether with your friends and family, or alone, because the most important thing to remember during the holidays is that they are what YOU make them to be.
Not what the internet is trying to tell you they should be.
And now, with that PSA out of the way, let's dive into the last purely Christmas book review on this blog, shall we?
I was saving this one for last because it just hit me in all the feels, ya know?
Also, because Lea Rose just writes so BEAUTIFULLY (and just revealed the title for her next book set in Rosewood Falls, and I AM HERE FOR IT), and because her books always bring out all the emotions so well.
So without further ado, let's hop right into it.
Because it's time to settle down in His for Christmas.
His for Christmas is a contemporary romance novella, which means that it's set in modern times, and it's incredibly short to read.
Short, sexy, and to the point, might I add.
Sydney works part-time as a barista, and most of the time as an entertainer at a high end club for ... rich men who want to live out their fantasies of women fawning over them, for lack of better words.
She meets Edison when he's at the coffee shop on a date with someone else, and as he later says, he feels more chemistry with her in the ten minutes they talk - and she turns him down when he asks for her number, mind, because MAN IS ON A DATE - than he has his whole life with anyone else.
So he tracks her down. Helps that he owns the security company which does security at her club, by the way.
She agrees to go to dinner with him, because she can feel the chemistry too, but she's wary because of her past, regardless that her BFF is telling her to forget it and just shag this guy senseless.
But Edison's ex crops up with a stalker issue, so he has to cancel the dinner thing, or well, he tries to rearrange it, Sydney drops him like a hot potato, and he hot foots it over to her apartment to prove a point, which is, he's taking her out to dinner sometime and she can argue against it all she wants.
It's not as bad as it might sound, actually, you have to read the text to fully grasp the nuances: Edison is already in it to win it, he WANTS Sydney, and she's over there acting like one missed dinner is the end of the world.
Miss Ma'am, pls.
Anyway, to punish him - see what I'm saying? - she makes herself hard to find for their actual date, but he knows where to look, and they talk a little about themselves during dinner, where he explains he wants someone to settle down with, have children, be IT for him, and she explains how she found her ex cheating on her with her then-best friend, and how they kicked her out of HER shared apartment when they found out they were having a baby.
Which, as it turns out, wasn't even the guys, but whatever LOL he made his bed.
Edison takes Sydney home to HIS bed, at which point later on his ex shows up yet again, and every reader in the world is eyerolling because she OBVIOUSLY wants him back and is totally unhinged.
Just when you think he's got it sorted and it's all gonna work out though, she tries to intimidate Sydney in her dressing room at the club, but luckily Edison sniffs out the rat, and has her confessing the stalker bit was just a ruse to try and get back with him.
That over and done with, he and Sydney finally have a straight shot at happiness, wherein she once again punishes him for - checks notes - getting his ex to confess by pretending they have a shot.
I swear Sydney needs to work a little bit on herself here, but anyway.
They definitely work out their differences then, and in the epilogue we learn she's pregnant with their first child after a little bit of trying, the both of them happy as clams and married, of course.
I keep saying this and I will keep saying this until I'm blue in the face: Lea Rose always nails it.
She makes you think this will be just a smutty little ditty, then three chapters in she wallops you over the head with the deepest, sincerest YEARNING and straight up crushing character reveal and development you've ever seen.
Edison and Sydney are a push-and-pull kind of couple, and while I'm not fully on board with the kind of stunts Sydney pulls twice in this book, I can acknowledge this story is phenomenal. I'm a sucker for men like Edison so this one was right up my alley.
If you feel like reading about what it means to be so thoroughly WANTED by a powerful man, then this book is definitely for you.
And as a bonus, you get to unpack all the emotions, some backstabbing baggage, and see a bright future at the end of the day!
1000/10 recommend.
She makes you think this will be just a smutty little ditty, then three chapters in she wallops you over the head with the deepest, sincerest YEARNING and straight up crushing character reveal and development you've ever seen.
Edison and Sydney are a push-and-pull kind of couple, and while I'm not fully on board with the kind of stunts Sydney pulls twice in this book, I can acknowledge this story is phenomenal. I'm a sucker for men like Edison so this one was right up my alley.
If you feel like reading about what it means to be so thoroughly WANTED by a powerful man, then this book is definitely for you.
And as a bonus, you get to unpack all the emotions, some backstabbing baggage, and see a bright future at the end of the day!
1000/10 recommend.
xx
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