A review by fullybookedpenguin
My Frosty fake Christmas date by Cassie Bowen

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

When I tell you I was loving reading this book, I do not lie. The family dynamic around FMC, Julie, was so fun and her niece is adorably funny. They were doing silly goofy Christmas things too, which is an obvious must have in a romantic Christmas novel.
However... the last act conflict made me so angry and frustrated that it ruined the book for me. I hated it so much that when the HEA appeared it was like 'Ew'. Everyone but the niece and maybe the FMC (until she just took the trashy anger of every man and his dog. Have some fight my girl!) pissed me off.

Everyone just gets angry at our Julie and after dropping a whole heap of truth bombs on our bewildered FMC, Tucker (MMC) gives her half a second to respond to his love confession before storming off, and then Julies brother calls her cold, etc for not responding because she's flipping in shock. And then Julie does all the work of getting them together again. Not to mention the whole mother inviting the cheating exes and acting like everyone should just get over it and be buddy buddy despite the ex being a chronic liar and cruelest jerk alive.