Tome Thursday: A Baby for Christmas

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome to tonight's choice of book review which, I'll be honest, I was skeptical about going in.

 

Then again, it's been a while since I could read a holiday-themed romance and feel like it actually hit all the right beats, you get what I'm saying?

 

But this one was good.

 

Actually, this one was kind of GOLD, rather than just good.

 

Which means my hope in all of these has been restored, at least for the time being!

 

So make sure you've got your favourite drink and/or snack ready, cozy up under a fluffy blanket in your favourite reading spot, and pick this one up so you can bring some holiday cheer into your life.

 

Even if only for a moment.

 

Because nothing says Christmas more than a couple lonely hearts finding their happily ever after, like in A Baby for Christmas.

 

Tome Thursday: A Holiday by Gaslight

 

Hello everyone!

 

Hello, and welcome to what will now be Christmas-themed (or holiday-themed) blog posts for the rest of this calendar year.

 

Can you believe it's December already?

 

I honestly can't, it's gone by SO fast, and when you think about it, it literally feels like we only just turned around after last New Year's to begin 2021, but now we're finishing it up and heading into 2022.

 

It's completely bizarre and something that I wasn't expecting!

 

Then again though, this last month of the year is usually pretty magical, or it attempts to be, so why not try to enjoy it while we can, right?

 

Especially with ALL the current craziness, it's basically enough to turn anyone away from mainstream media.

 

So without further ado, let's get right into it, shall we?

 

A Holiday by Gaslight, by Mimi Matthews, is here to start the show.

 

Tome Thursday: Tell Me Your Wish

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome back to yet another Christmas book review, and, again, to another Serenity Woods review. I feel like I repeat myself a lot in these blog post intros, but truth be told there are just certain topics, authors or genres I gravitate towards with ease, and this is one of them.

 

I discovered Ms Woods completely by accident when the first book of one of her series, Three Wise Men, was made available on Kobo, and I thought to myself, what the heck.

 

I could do with some Christmas fluff, right?

 

Well, I ended up getting so much more than that!

 

That was a few years ago, and I now have the honour and privilege of being part of Ms Woods' ARC team, which means I'm super lucky and get to check out some of her books in advance. Tonight's one is of that caliber, but let me tell you, it is also SO worth the wait to buy it!

 

If you've been paying attention, Ms Woods has spent most of this year writing as Hermione Moon (her cozy witch mysteries are worth the read too, by the way), but is now returning to the world of contemporary romance.

 

Tell Me Your Wish is a standalone in her Christmas-themed books, and you can bet you should be picking it up.

 

Tome Thursday: My Christmas Fiancé

 

Hello everyone!

 

I am back and this time with an official excuse to actually start the Christmas books extravaganza. For the foreseeable future, you will be seeing only something and everything Christmas related on here even when it comes to books, so I hope you're prepared for it!

To be fair, I started last week already with Hermione Moon's book, but I feel like this week it's more official, you know?

After all, it IS December now!

So I was waffling between wanting to give you something sweet and a little steamy, and a murder mystery, because not even Christmas can escape that particular niche.

And in the end, I figured sweet and steamy might work a bit better, however there will definitely be some sleuthing going on here as well, just not this week.

For now we are returning to my first love when it comes to contemporary books, the work of Serenity Woods. This is one of her older ones, but she IS releasing a new Christmas-themed romance soon and you bet that I will be bringing you the scoop as soon as I can!

Right now, it's time to check My Christmas Fiancé first.

Tome Thursday: My Christmas Billionaire

Hello everyone!

Time really does fly when you're having fun. It seems like only yesterday that I started reading The Billionaire Kings by Serenity Woods, and yet somehow, we've reached the end.

Of course it may not REALLY be the end, as Ms Woods has indicated there might be a follow-up story, kind of like a wrap-up, to catch up with everyone in the King dynasty.

And it really IS a dynasty by this point, given how many of them there are and how they seem interconnected all over the place.

In the meantime though, we need to review the last of the actual books and love stories, because there's only two people left who remain single after all the others have found their happily ever afters.

What makes this particular book special is the fact that it takes place in Rovaniemi, Finland, which is an actual place up in the Arctic Circle. It's one of my bucket list destinations, because who DOESN'T want to go spy on Santa in his own village??

Ahem.

My Christmas Billionaire does just that.

Talkie Tuesday: Christmas at the Plaza

"Nothing unimportant ever happens at the Plaza."

Hello everyone!

Here we are with our third Christmas movie review since December started, where did the time go? I honestly feel as if it's zipping along like we're in some sort of race to the finish line. I'm probably going to blink and it's going to go from 2019 to 2020. 

Meanwhile, you gotta do what you gotta do, right?

So here we go with another Hallmark Christmas movie because, well, why not?

They've certainly done much better this year than in several years past, although granted I also haven't watched every single movie they've churned out. There's bound to be weak links in the chain because of the quantity of them.

But the ones I HAVE watched, so far at least, have generally been very enjoyable. Sure there might have been one or two that could have done a bit better, but all that aside, as a general rule, this has been a pretty good Christmas countdown so far.

And since I'm all about the good vibes, why don't we head on to probably the most well-known holiday location in New York? Christmas at the Plaza is up next.

Tome Thursday: If Kisses Were Snowflakes

Hello everyone!

Today has been a rather busy day for me, but that said, I've been looking forward to sitting down and typing up this blog post, because it features one of my favourite books.

I think you may be sensing a trend here.

I don't believe I've ever run into more than one or two books written by Serenity Woods that I didn't like - and even then, it wasn't that I really didn't like them, I just didn't connect well enough with a character so I felt out of whack with the entire thing, and therefore missed the experience.

But ALL of her books are guaranteed to make you smile. Scout's honour!

I've been on a Woods reading binge ever since December began, going through her Three Wise Men series (I still have to read Matt's book one more time) and generally just picking up her Christmas-y titles.

This one is DEFINITELY one of those, because believe it or not, it's part of her Christmas Wishes book series, a set of standalone books that are all set in Christmas time.

As they say, If Kisses Were Snowflakes - I'd send you a snowstorm.

Tome Thursday: Between You, Me, and the Bedpost

Hello everyone!

And another one bites the dust, as they say LOL.

As you can tell, I had a Serenity Woods binge-read over my summer vacation, but that's pretty much standard procedure for me I think. When it all boils down to it, I think, if I went and counted, that I own pretty much all of her books, or at the very least the majority of them.

I know. I may be a little obsessed. I can't help but think there are worse things to obsess over, however, because at least with these stories I'm getting happily ever afters out of the deal!

I was also lucky enough to get a copy of the book from the author herself, which is AWESOME.

Unfortunately I didn't really get the chance to read it before taking off to Croatia, which is why the review seems to come a little bit later than is usual for her books (I normally gobble them down on release day, or the day after if I'm really busy that first round).

So why don't we all sit back and relax while navigating through this review?

Between You, Me, and the Bedpost, here we come.