I enjoyed returning to Christmas Notch. I have a weird spot for Hallmark Xmas movies, and I want the realistic and spicer version of Hope Channel After Dark (remember when Oxygen had After Dark shows? I have aged myself in this review - oh well). While Sierra Simone took the reigns and brought in a lot of elder millennial quirks (thank you) and the effects of purity/evangelical church culture into the storyline, I wasn’t aware that I would get romance and therapy in a book. I understood why recovering from that culture is hard, even when you have been out of it for a while.

You got a boyband heartthrob (insert any real-life boyband boy), Kallum Lieberman from INK, and your Candance Cameron alike in Winnie Baker, whose now tarnished pure, girl-next-door vibe by a few decisions. Both people are at a turning point and decided to create a Santa movie that would be softcore porn for Hope Channel after Dark. Both have a history, both are trying to change, and both cannot help but fall in love with each other.

I read the ARC, and there are a few plot points that I wished were fleshed out more in the story, and perhaps they will when published. But those plot points were not crucial to the storyline, but just enough for me to want more.