This is their second book in the spicy Christmas love series. It was sweet, very spicy, and very inclusive. That’s what I loved about their first book - the inclusivity. The romance has always featured m/f relationships, but the characters in the first were both bisexual, and there was a lot of queer representation in this book as well. The diversity and inclusion feels effortless, not like a last minute attempt to add something in to say they did.

This book featured a highlight of purity culture, religious trauma, and shame, which I thought was masterfully done, and such a fun read. I love that the authors really make something as light as a Christmas sex fest feel meaningful.

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What brought this down was the sudden change in Winny, the MFC. She went from being shy shy shy to asking for sex without reservation in a page. They warmed up to her character’s shift, but not enough. Perhaps they were attempting to show that she, the less experienced one, was not only consenting but eager for the dynamic, so it didn’t read as an abuse of power? Even so, it felt like lazy character development when even a few more pages or even one more chapter could have rounded it out.

What I found abhorrent was that there was content of a situation regarding pregnancy loss with no trigger warning. This is a topic that absolutely needs to be listed in a content guidance page at the beginning. It felt negligent, especially given the author’s obvious commitment to inclusivity in other regards.