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A review by garbage_mcsmutly
Under The Meh-stletoe by Leonor Soliz
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
4.5
🚫🎄 A short cute unChristmas rom-com. I really liked it, and it was a nice sarcastic break from all the heartfelt Christmas books I've read this month. Neither of the MCs like Christmas, yet they have to work together to put on all the Christmas pageantry for the town. This is my first book by this author and I'd totally read more by her.
🌶️ 3.75/5 There's only one sex scene, but it's a short novella so it would be hard to fit in much more with the way the story was paced. But the one scene was 🥵. There is a mirror involved.
🏳️🌈✊
Both MCs are Latine, as are most of the side characters / townspeople. There's not a ton that's calling out the culture explicitly, more like it's just casually woven in throughout the story (lines like "if the chisme gets out..." without coddling the reader by translating chisme). But Noche Buena is featured in one chapter.
Both characters are fat, and they are represented as, you know, full ass people with thoughts and feelings and desires, who are sexually attractive. The author did a really good job of describing the appeal of, and the sexy ways to interact with, larger bodies.
There's no bigotry to be overcome in this book; people are just living their lives as diverse human beings. A nice cozy holiday(ish) book.
🌶️ 3.75/5 There's only one sex scene, but it's a short novella so it would be hard to fit in much more with the way the story was paced. But the one scene was 🥵. There is a mirror involved.
🏳️🌈✊
Both MCs are Latine, as are most of the side characters / townspeople. There's not a ton that's calling out the culture explicitly, more like it's just casually woven in throughout the story (lines like "if the chisme gets out..." without coddling the reader by translating chisme). But Noche Buena is featured in one chapter.
Both characters are fat, and they are represented as, you know, full ass people with thoughts and feelings and desires, who are sexually attractive. The author did a really good job of describing the appeal of, and the sexy ways to interact with, larger bodies.
There's no bigotry to be overcome in this book; people are just living their lives as diverse human beings. A nice cozy holiday(ish) book.
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Alcohol and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Car accident and Death of parent