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Merry Inkmas by Talia Hibbert

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autumnwitch14's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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readbykatherine's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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mayareadsxo's review

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lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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jourdanicus's review against another edition

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emotional fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

5/5 on the spicy scale 🌶️ as usual, which I've come to expect and appreciate from Talia Hibbert. Sadly I felt the plot was a little rushed, which, I guess, ok, it's a novella. Worse than the pacing for me though was the emotional immaturity of Cash. I didn't really like that it was
his mom who ended up telling Bailey all about their traumatic past.
I felt like that should have been a moment between Cash and Bailey.

Also, something about the homeless person savior subplot rubs me the wrong way but idk. And the fact that Cash had
watched Bailey in the coffee shop enough to draw her a lot without her knowledge...
Seems kinda stalkerish in hindsight I guess?

Obviously I will continue to read more by the author, she's one of my favorites especially for romance and erotica, with POC and ND representation. This one just didn't hit like the others for me personally.
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maddiela's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Picked this up after hearing good reviews of this Christmas romance. Honestly, it didn’t do much for me. There wasn’t much of a storyline to the book, all the characters definitely had potential but the execution of character development by the author really fell flat for me. Spice is there but the rest of the story was so lacklustre that I had trouble wanting to finish it. Definitely didn’t help that I didn’t like the main characters and by the end of the book, I wasn’t even rooting for the characters to have a happy ending and come together. I don’t think I would recommend . 
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bootsmom3's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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lucy__342's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I think out of all Talia Hibbirt books Cash and Bailey are 100% my fave as a couple. But the storyline was very mediocre yet the characters were lovable.
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notsobinaryart's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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sienasummerrreads's review against another edition

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hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.5

First Christmas read for 2023 and unfortunately, it missed the mark for me. I went into this blind and didn’t know what to expect. I mention a few scenes below which may contain spoilers.

The author references the MMC as an alphamello bad boy. I found him quite mushy. At the start, he was kind, fluffy and nice but then it turned into him being grumpy and all over the place with his mood when working for him. The FMC labelled a good girl who was shy at the start but then got confident way too fast. I didn’t fall in love with their connection. 
I would have loved to see more information on the FMC’s family and the homeless storyline of the MMC. I have many unanswered questions. 
There are a couple of scenes that drove me a little crazy. First is when they have their first sexual encounter after the kiss. She was giving him a blowie behind the reception desk and a co-worker interrupted and nearly caught them. Fast forward to later that day they didn’t discuss what happened and ended the chapter with come spend time with my family at Christmas we are leaving on the 23rd. The next chapter came and they were in the car on the way to celebrate Christmas. These characters had no discussions about the encounter except it mentions they texted dog memes to each other. I would have expected being your first encounter pushing the boundaries we would have gotten some sort of communication after nearly being caught but nothing except dog memes. Lastly, she works on her assignment early morning on Christmas Eve after spending a night together. He woke up and saw she was upset and stressed which resulted in her losing words on her upcoming assignment which is said to be months away. She lost the words due to her laptop playing up. Working on this assignment makes no sense due to it being Christmas and also this man whips out a Christmas present which ends up being a new laptop at that exact moment. I don’t recall her mentioning previously her laptop was playing up throughout the book until this point.

I appreciate the idea of the story but the execution wasn’t for me. 

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🔹Holiday Reads 
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🔹Fast Paced 
🔹Quick Easy Read 

Genre/Type: Christmas Romance 18+
APK: Kindle 
Pages: 190
Rating: 🌟🌟.5
Spice: 🌶️
Series or Stand Alone: Stand Alone 
Tropes or Themes: Christmas, Barista, Workplace, One Bed, Boss, Receptionist, Tattoo Parlour, Artist, Plus Size, Sexual Content, Cursing, Alcohol & Third Person. Mentions: DV & Violence 
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itschelseaw's review

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emotional funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

A cute, quick read. I just really like Talia Hibbert’s style of writing, so most of her books will be a win for me. Even though this was more of a novella than full on novel (the version I read was 132 pages long) we still got to know the characters well and saw the development of them. The big conversations were satisfying, as was the smut and seeing them fall in love.
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