A review by laurentalevski
A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy, Sierra Simone

4.0

Child actor Winnie Baker agrees to star in a steamy Christmas movie but she has never reached completion in her life and is scared about how to deliver on camera. Enter Kallum Lieberman, former boyband member, major playboy with a wild sex tape. Winnie knows he has the experience to help her with her 'research' and not to mention he also single handedly ruined her image. The major curveball is that he has always had a crush on her.

THE SPICE IN THIS HAD ME BLUSHING! They were both fun and complex MC's to read about with INSANE chemistry. I loved seeing Winnie grow and stand up to the people trying to bring her down it absolutely broke me to see her suffer the way she did. We give purity culture the biggest middle finger in this one and it filled me with so much joy. The way the second part threw me through a loop I was not expecting, I think the later part of the book with not be for some people thats for sure but I enjoyed it.

Tropes: spicy coach, forced proximity, disability rep, former playboy
Triggers: religious trauma, cheating ex, divorce, purity culture, controlling parents