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A review by agrandromance
British Black Sheep by Hero Club, Lauren Smith
5.0
Magical Christmas Romance Will Melt Your Heart
4.5/5 Stars
What you need to know about British Black Sheep:
✔ Force proximity romance
✔ Complete stand-alone
✔ Lovely American ghost writer heroine
✔ Hot British investment banker
✔ If you loved British Bedmate by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward, you will get to see more of Simon and Brigid
Lauren Smith is a new author to me but I will be looking up her other works immediately after reading the thoroughly enchanting “British Black Sheep”. “British Black Sheep” is a magical Christmas romance that is lavish in its descriptions of the holidays in the English countryside with a beautiful and steamy romance as its centerpiece. It’s really quite stunning with echoes of Dylan Thomas' “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” if you added a romance to that story.
Alec and Brie meet when they are seated next to each other in first class on the flight from New York to London. He insults her bodice ripper, her name and is generally an asshat. Eventually they become friendlier and share some champagne and good conversation and part in London thinking they will never see each other again.
Shockingly, they end up on a second flight sitting beside each other again on the second leg of their journey to Manchester. They don’t know they are both heading for the same destination: Merryvale Court, where Brie is ghostwriting a Christmas book for Alec’s mother.
Can these two broken souls find the beauty in the Christmas traditions of Merryvale and can it mend those places in their hearts?
WRITING STYLE: 5/5
PLOT: 4/5
WORLD-BUILDING: 5/5
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: 4/5
ROMANCE: 5/5
HEAT: 4/5
Many thanks to Give Me Books Promotions, the Cocky Hero Club, and Lauren Smith for an ARC in exchange for an honest book review of “British Black Sheep”. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and independent of receiving an advance copy.
4.5/5 Stars
What you need to know about British Black Sheep:
✔ Force proximity romance
✔ Complete stand-alone
✔ Lovely American ghost writer heroine
✔ Hot British investment banker
✔ If you loved British Bedmate by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward, you will get to see more of Simon and Brigid
Lauren Smith is a new author to me but I will be looking up her other works immediately after reading the thoroughly enchanting “British Black Sheep”. “British Black Sheep” is a magical Christmas romance that is lavish in its descriptions of the holidays in the English countryside with a beautiful and steamy romance as its centerpiece. It’s really quite stunning with echoes of Dylan Thomas' “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” if you added a romance to that story.
Alec and Brie meet when they are seated next to each other in first class on the flight from New York to London. He insults her bodice ripper, her name and is generally an asshat. Eventually they become friendlier and share some champagne and good conversation and part in London thinking they will never see each other again.
Shockingly, they end up on a second flight sitting beside each other again on the second leg of their journey to Manchester. They don’t know they are both heading for the same destination: Merryvale Court, where Brie is ghostwriting a Christmas book for Alec’s mother.
Can these two broken souls find the beauty in the Christmas traditions of Merryvale and can it mend those places in their hearts?
WRITING STYLE: 5/5
PLOT: 4/5
WORLD-BUILDING: 5/5
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: 4/5
ROMANCE: 5/5
HEAT: 4/5
Many thanks to Give Me Books Promotions, the Cocky Hero Club, and Lauren Smith for an ARC in exchange for an honest book review of “British Black Sheep”. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and independent of receiving an advance copy.