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sweetteaandfiction's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
This collection doesn’t come out as strong as the Improbable Meet-Cutes.
Overall, I give these holiday romances 3/5 ⭐️’s
Merriment and Mayhem by Alexandria Bellefleur is a painfully relatable tale of an accident prone girl (that is the relatable bit) finding romance with the fire fighter who catches her every time she falls.
PROS:
🍪Found family
🎄Finding a home for the holidays
CONS:
🍪Sleeping with someone one time and choosing to uproot your whole life is a lot.
🔥🔥🔥 out of five Christmas cookie kitchen fires
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Death and Grief
Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Injury/Injury detail
britwalsh16's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent
Minor: Cursing
tguccione's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Death and Grief
danimichelle's review
1.0
This was going to be a 4 star read (and probably my favorite in this series) up until the 70% mark. I’ve never gone from 4 stars to 1 star in the blink of an eye like that.
Content warnings for the book and this review: near-dr*wning, description of dr*wning, grief, loss, fire
I was really enjoying this until I got to the end of chapter three and was blindsided by not just a near dr*wning (which I could have moved past) but a description of what happens to dr*wning victims in the moment. I know this is a me thing—and this is really the only thing I try to avoid in media I consume— but I’m sorry, why was this necessary? I didn’t think I needed to check content warnings for a 50ish page holiday romcom, but I will in the future, I guess.
The smut immediately afterwards just made my stomach turn and the ending was so abrupt, all I was left with was my feelings 🥲
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Grief, and Death of parent
Minor: Fire/Fire injury
beebowbabe's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent
manda_reads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent
luna_98's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Grief
crystalisreading's review
3.5
Also this is the second story in this collection that I've read that prominently features grief over the recent loss of a grandparent. Proceed accordingly.
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Death and Death of parent
isabelvegga's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Sexual content and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
beckyyreadss's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent