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Good Elf Gone Wrong
by Alina Jacobs
2.5⭐️
Every December, I try to read at least one Christmas book.
This sounded like an interesting book and went for it.
I should have stopped reading the moment I was confused on what the heck was going on after Hudson is introduced. He’s supposed to be a complete stranger, yet he’s been digging deep in to Gracie’s family for months, and he’s a hacker con-artist, manipulating their “relationship”?
The whole revenge plot storyline would have worked great… if Grace wasn’t such a complete doormat. I don’t care if she was written to be that way, it got annoying fast. Not to mention, her family blaming her for literally everything, even if she wasn’t the one at fault at all.
I could see the third-act breakup coming since the beginning of the book, and it was catastrophic. A lot of chaos for what I feel is little reward.
And one last thing - the smut in this is cringy 90% of the time. The fmc who is supposed to be naive and innocent has one of the dirtiest mouths I’ve ever read? Yeah, no.
Christmas book, yes.
But more of a disappointing read than a good holiday romance.
Oh and all the sexual Christmas puns can go. Having it in the blurb is attention grabbing, but everywhere in the book is a bit much.
Every December, I try to read at least one Christmas book.
This sounded like an interesting book and went for it.
I should have stopped reading the moment I was confused on what the heck was going on after Hudson is introduced. He’s supposed to be a complete stranger, yet he’s been digging deep in to Gracie’s family for months, and he’s a hacker con-artist, manipulating their “relationship”?
The whole revenge plot storyline would have worked great… if Grace wasn’t such a complete doormat. I don’t care if she was written to be that way, it got annoying fast. Not to mention, her family blaming her for literally everything, even if she wasn’t the one at fault at all.
I could see the third-act breakup coming since the beginning of the book, and it was catastrophic. A lot of chaos for what I feel is little reward.
And one last thing - the smut in this is cringy 90% of the time. The fmc who is supposed to be naive and innocent has one of the dirtiest mouths I’ve ever read? Yeah, no.
Christmas book, yes.
But more of a disappointing read than a good holiday romance.
Oh and all the sexual Christmas puns can go. Having it in the blurb is attention grabbing, but everywhere in the book is a bit much.