2.5? Rounding it up because I'm nice.

This book will probably be a great fun Christmas queer romcom for many.
It's got the cutesy clichés and winter vibes, and you read it quite quickly.

The main issue for me was that this is a whole new level of insta-love and year long infatuation that I just don't get and don't enjoy reading about.
Both parties spent a few hours together last Christmas, absolutely fell in love, then never spoke for the next 364 days presuming the other wasn't interested, and they still hung on to their "love"??
There's no way you fall in love in six hours. And there's especially no way you're in love with someone you spent ten hours with one year ago...
Saying over and over again things like "I'm not like this, I'm not the kind of person who falls in love in six hours" when that's EXACTLY who you are just makes it even more annoying.

Another thing that bugged me was how our MC Ellie is demisexual, but is strongly attracted (sexually) to Jac after... Three hours? Maybe even less...
Being on the ace spectrum myself I felt a little played, like the demi rep here was just used to insist on how incredible it was that they had this great connexion despite so few hours AND the demisexuality.. despite knowing little about each other...
A few rounds of "the honesty game" doesn't reveal so much about a person.

Anyways, with a few adjustments, I'd definitely read about a love trapezoid around winter season.
I just wouldn't read this one.