The Trouble With Mistletoe by Jill Shalvis
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Book Review at a Glance
Heroine Rating: Willa
Shani: 🍑🍑🍑
Bridget: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Hero Rating: Keane
Shani: 🍆🍆🍆
Bridget: 🍆🍆🍆🍆
McDreamy to Mc Steamy:
Shani: McDreamy
Bridget: McDreamy in the streets, McSteamy in the sheets
Classy to Nasty:
Vanilla sexy times are sexy though. Bit of fun situational fucking.
Romance at a Glance Reviews The Trouble With Mistletoe by Jill Shalvis
There is nothing better than a Christmas movie. Filled with tropes, extra sprinkle of love, Christmas magic, "perfect" timing for grand gestures, and great tugging on the heart strings. And now we are discovered Christmas romance novels, much to our delight!
Romance at a Glance reviews The Trouble with Mistletoe and the novella One Snowy Night, both by Jill Shalvis, and listen to our delight as we discuss the book and follow-up novella and our shocking lack of knowledge about this niche corner of romance.
We cannot even with this book’s charm!
On Romance at a Glance we discuss and review all genres of romance novels, as well as get into the nitty gritty of real-life romance, relationships and sex... while cracking each other up. Expect some spontaneous singing, funny anecdotes, honest reviews, and naughty language.
Quick Guide Review of the Book and Notes
Book Title: The Trouble with Mistletoe
Author: Jill Shalvis
Audio Narrator: Karen White
Part of a Series: Yes, Heartbreaker Bay, Book 2
Genre: Christmas contemporary romance
Synopsis: If she has her way ...
Willa Davis is wrangling puppies when Keane Winters stalks into her pet shop with frustration in his chocolate-brown eyes and a pink bedazzled cat carrier in his hand. He needs a kitty sitter, stat. But the last thing Willa needs is to rescue a guy who doesn’t even remember her ...
He’ll get nothing but coal in his stocking.
Saddled with his great-aunt’s Feline from Hell, Keane is desperate to leave her in someone else’s capable hands. But in spite of the fact that he’s sure he’s never seen the drop-dead-gorgeous pet shop owner before, she seems to be mad at him ...
Unless he tempers “naughty” with a special kind of nice ...
Willa can’t deny that Keane’s changed since high school: he’s less arrogant, for one thing—but can she trust him not to break her heart again? It’s time to throw a coin in the fountain, make a Christmas wish—and let the mistletoe do its work.
Heroine Rating: Willa
Shani: 🍑🍑🍑
Bridget: 🍑🍑🍑🍑- She picks herself up by her boot straps, has a hilarious entrepreneurial spirit at her pet store / washing operation, and dies for crown molding just like I do.
Hero Rating: Keane
Shani: 🍆🍆🍆
Bridget: 🍆🍆🍆🍆 - He flips houses and does custom woodwork and gives good shower. #lifedream
McDreamy to Mc Steamy:
Shani: McDreamy
Bridget: McDreamy in the streets, McSteamy in the sheets
Classy to Nasty:
Vanilla sexy times are sexy though. Bit of fun situational fucking.
Favorite Line in the Book:
Shani:
“Yep, she was completely fulfilled.
But then she’d seen Keane Winters and something had happened, something weird and unsettling. He made her realize that she hadn’t plugged all her holes at all, that there was at least one still open and gaping inside her.”
Bridget:
“I haven’t given you your Christmas present yet.”
“What is it?” he asked.
“Me.”
“Best present ever.”
Favorite Review:
Shani’s from Audible:
Bridget’s from Goodreads:
Lana ❇✾Dirty Girl Romance❇✾ rated it4 STARS
Le swoon. *Happy sigh*
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Jill Shalvis books are my happy place. Her stories never fail to give me the warm and fuzzies and a huge case of the happy feels. They're romantic, swoony, sweet, sexy, and yet never cheesy. They're the perfect feel good romance with none of the craziness and yet they'll keep me reading well into the night with a happy smile on my face. I just love them.
Ever since the preview of Willa's book in Sweet Little Lies I've been eagerly anticipating the full story of what happened with her and Keane. Because let's be real here, a high school crush that broke her heart shows up years later with a disgruntled pussy on her doorstop? You bet I want to read it! ....
Cover Art:
Shani: I thought it was cute and spoke to the books playful nature.
Bridget: Gives me that Christmas spirit, but doesn’t tell me anything about what they do for a living, which is such a big part of their characters. I would have liked her to have on jeans and the tank tops she always wears with a dog by her feet and have him in a tool belt.
Worth the Read?
Shani: It was a quick fun read. Not my favorite, but if the feelz are your thing, then read it.
Bridget: Yes! If you like Christmas movies, give this Christmas romance a try!
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