Book safety, content warnings, and tropes down below.

“It’s okay to want things, Paul. Everyone needs a dream.”

This was sweet, hot, a little sad, and festive as heck. I’ve struggled with getting into books the last few weeks because I’m absolutely swamped with school work, but this was a perfect low angst christmas book to help me unwind in the evenings.

Gideon was a man with a plan, and that worried me. Especially when he turned up with a thick stack of printout pages, a legal pad, and, lord help us, fabric samples.

I ended up loving both MCs a lot, which is always super nice. They are both a little sad and lonely inside, which I mean, of course, it’s a christmas romance. But, that always gets me right in the feels. They’re not the best at communicating early on because neither of them want to risk ‘popping the bubble’ as it were, but it has a lovely HEA and coming along for the ride as they learn the other persons love language and needs was lovely. Cute and quick read. I also *adore* a bossy smaller guy topping from the bottom.

It really was a darn shame, the way the man totally lacked an appetite for fun and community togetherness. But maybe when one filled out a leather jacket like he did, a personality was strictly optional.

⬇️ Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️

⚠️ Tropes & tags ⚠️
Grumpy/sunshine
Geeky MC
Christmas
Opposites attract
Neighbors to lovers
Bossy bottom
Silver fox

⚠️ Content warning ⚠️
Explicit sexual content
Brief mentions of parent deaths due to house fire (past)
Grief

⚠️Book safety ⚠️
Cheating: No
OM/OW drama: No
Breakup: No
POV: 1st person, dual POV
Genre: Contemporary holiday romance, M/M
Strict roles or versatile: Strict roles
MCs age: 42 and 40’s. Might be the same age.

“You’re cute if you think I can’t be bossy and bottom at the same time.”

“I love that you, with all your endless sunshine, have a cranky cat.” “Apparently, I attract grumpy things.”

And maybe I couldn’t write him poetry, but I could put it into my touch, my lips, my very breath.