I'm not usually one for fake-dating romances but I could at least get on board with the premise of this one, and I enjoyed the German Christmas setting. But I could not get on at all with Evie. I get her cold-hearted persona is meant to be understood as her defense mechanism, but from the get go with Duke she's just mean, and even when she recognises he's hurt by several things she has said/done, she doesn't apologise. Duke is often annoying and certainly flawed, but I understand where he's coming from a lot more.