A review by pantsreadsbooks
Mistle-Ho by Janice Whiteaker, Josie Watts

emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

Not very Christmasy for all of the title, but really this was perfect for reading post-holiday when your Christmas kinda sucked. This was fun, if a bit dramatic in parts and definitely check the CWs. I’m not sure I entirely bought the timeline/procession of their relationship— the switch from her hating him/disbelieving his motives to happily hooking up was a little sudden/underexplored. But otherwise they were very sweet & sexy and I believed the chemistry. Was it super weird when she decided to bang him BECAUSE he revealed that her dead grandma gave him her recipes? It sure was! But I quibble. And the jealousy thing isn’t usually my jam, but it worked here cause it went both ways and she was into it. Debating on whether I’ll read the next one in the series though. Her brother spends a lot of time calling his FMC “Miss Miller” which is super not my kink (and I can’t figure out if it IS a kink or not?), and they sort of already had their third-act breakup in this book, so meh? We’ll see.