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teresab78's review
4.0
3.5 stars
Full of family drama but still low angst. Very short but I still felt the connection between Seth and Owen. Seth's family was crazy but it made for some funny moments.
Full of family drama but still low angst. Very short but I still felt the connection between Seth and Owen. Seth's family was crazy but it made for some funny moments.
suze_1624's review
4.0
I would call this a perfect holiday read - short enough to devour in one sitting, long enough to have a decent story, great main characters, good back story info, loveable and hateable secondary characters, a story plot you can get behind and a big dollop of awww! I enjoyed it! 4*
30/11 reread : still a nice read but I didn’t like Seth’s mums manic passive aggressive stance. Seth also I felt flip flopped from put together to jibbering wreck (or maybe that was his family’s effect!). So this time I did like, it still got the Aw at the end but guns, Mum and Lisa naffed me off! 3.5*
30/11 reread : still a nice read but I didn’t like Seth’s mums manic passive aggressive stance. Seth also I felt flip flopped from put together to jibbering wreck (or maybe that was his family’s effect!). So this time I did like, it still got the Aw at the end but guns, Mum and Lisa naffed me off! 3.5*
shelbanuadh's review against another edition
1.0
I was genuinely enjoying this, in spite of the homophobic sister and OTT mother, until the end. I’m sorry, but the shotgun thing was NOT funny. For gun enthusiasts, they should know that you don’t point your gun at anything you don’t intend to shoot. This killed my enjoyment pretty fast.
catevari's review
3.0
Though a "Christmas story" and tied up with Maryland's passage of marriage equality, the underpinning of this short story is a lot more universal (and very common to the romance genre): what do you do, in a relationship, when one person wants to get married and the other doesn't?
This was my first experience with Kari Gregg, and it was a delightful one. In any story that revolves around such a big, fundamental disagreement between partners, it takes a light and insightful author to keep it from feeling like one partner is giving too much or compromising in ways that are bound to cause trouble after the story's eye closes. but Gregg really manages it in a way that the story's conclusion feels natural and earned.
As well, she takes on Seth's big, bustling and over-involved family and the highs and lows of Christmas spent with said family with a lot of humor, understanding and quite excellent characterization. And though I think some elements of the story could have benefited from a little expansion, I was entirely satisfied with the story Gregg did give me. I will be definitely seeking out another of her books.
This was my first experience with Kari Gregg, and it was a delightful one. In any story that revolves around such a big, fundamental disagreement between partners, it takes a light and insightful author to keep it from feeling like one partner is giving too much or compromising in ways that are bound to cause trouble after the story's eye closes. but Gregg really manages it in a way that the story's conclusion feels natural and earned.
As well, she takes on Seth's big, bustling and over-involved family and the highs and lows of Christmas spent with said family with a lot of humor, understanding and quite excellent characterization. And though I think some elements of the story could have benefited from a little expansion, I was entirely satisfied with the story Gregg did give me. I will be definitely seeking out another of her books.
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