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A review by bookish_kristina
Once Upon a Christmas Eve by Elizabeth Hoyt
4.0
I love when a rake comes undone.
“You undo me, I’ve never been so pathetic in all my life”
A sweet holiday novella taking place in the maiden lane world. Bringing Lord D’Arque and Sarah St. John, characters from previous books, together at a Christmas house party. Typical snowed in together, machinations from older relative and avoidance of love by the rake hero due to childhood and avoidance of rakes from the heroine due to bad experiences, this wasn’t exactly original, but it was sweet and sensual and a light Christmas read.
The epilogue was just the ending of the dumb fairytales the author insists on having as chapter openings so we see nothing of them beyond the proposal. Bummer. This author is terrible at epilogues.
Can be a stand alone but I enjoyed it more because it had previous characters and I knew all the back stories.
“You undo me, I’ve never been so pathetic in all my life”
A sweet holiday novella taking place in the maiden lane world. Bringing Lord D’Arque and Sarah St. John, characters from previous books, together at a Christmas house party. Typical snowed in together, machinations from older relative and avoidance of love by the rake hero due to childhood and avoidance of rakes from the heroine due to bad experiences, this wasn’t exactly original, but it was sweet and sensual and a light Christmas read.
The epilogue was just the ending of the dumb fairytales the author insists on having as chapter openings so we see nothing of them beyond the proposal. Bummer. This author is terrible at epilogues.
Can be a stand alone but I enjoyed it more because it had previous characters and I knew all the back stories.