nmflotte's review against another edition
4.0
Short and sweet
Perfect holiday read. Short, sweet and funny, you couldn’t ask for a better way to spend quality time with your kindle
Perfect holiday read. Short, sweet and funny, you couldn’t ask for a better way to spend quality time with your kindle
erinsabourin's review against another edition
3.0
Read this for I Read That Podcast Christmas in July, I don't read the backs of covers nor did I know this was a short little novella. It was good all things considered, a short little read with just a dash of spice to it. If you like over the top Christmas everywhere and corny Hallmark movies this is the book for you. Better yet, its a series so read to your hearts content.
littlebookjockey's review against another edition
4.0
I'm tempted just to say, "It cute" lol. This is a really sweet romance. It may be a little over-the-top with the Christmas stuff, but that's kind of the point. I'll definitely read the rest of the series.
kle105's review against another edition
4.0
A fun, quick read full of holiday cheer. How can you not be when you live in a town called reindeer falls. However Holly seems to be working for a Grinch. Nick has taken over for his father and Holly is not impressed.
So when he demands she join him for a business trip she is annoyed. But getting to visit the original site for her big project is hard to resist. She wasn't expecting to see the softer side of Nick on the trip, or his creative ways of making her enjoy the moments outside of work. They just might be able to join forces and create their perfect Holiday experience.
So when he demands she join him for a business trip she is annoyed. But getting to visit the original site for her big project is hard to resist. She wasn't expecting to see the softer side of Nick on the trip, or his creative ways of making her enjoy the moments outside of work. They just might be able to join forces and create their perfect Holiday experience.
moonbowbooks's review against another edition
4.0
Alles, was ich zu Weihnachten möchte, ist einen Kuss von dir <3
rosielovesreading's review against another edition
5.0
Jana Aston + Christmas = a brilliant holiday book
Jana Aston is one of my favourite authors because the relationships she writes seem so real. Not only is there love and heat, but also humour and teasing and it just makes me so happy.
Holly Winters loves Christmas. Her boss, Nick, hates Christmas, or so she thinks. On a business trip to Germany in December, everything changes and they both realise that maybe they have more in common than they think.
This book made me so happy. I loved both Nick and Holly, and even though it’s a novella, it doesn’t feel like it. I felt a connection to the characters and invested in their relationship, and with it all being set around Xmas, it made it so much better! I can’t wait to read book 2 in a The Reindeer Falls series!
Jana Aston is one of my favourite authors because the relationships she writes seem so real. Not only is there love and heat, but also humour and teasing and it just makes me so happy.
Holly Winters loves Christmas. Her boss, Nick, hates Christmas, or so she thinks. On a business trip to Germany in December, everything changes and they both realise that maybe they have more in common than they think.
This book made me so happy. I loved both Nick and Holly, and even though it’s a novella, it doesn’t feel like it. I felt a connection to the characters and invested in their relationship, and with it all being set around Xmas, it made it so much better! I can’t wait to read book 2 in a The Reindeer Falls series!
grapie_deltaco's review against another edition
2.0
The opening paragraphs begin a never ending pattern of Holly referring to her boss as Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch and over the course of the entire book, we don’t see Nick (her boss) act rude or Grinch-like once. According to Holly (and the author) the boss of a major toy corporation in the middle of the holiday season is a terrible, horrible, terrifying Grinch for…not doing friendly chit chat and keeping work time dedicated to talking about work ??
Every interaction we see between Holly and Nick is almost charming. He’s sarcastic in a subtle, harmless way and when they begin their business trip, he cracks jokes and makes conversation. He remembers minor details about Holly and never mistreats anyone. Holly insists he’s horrible based on literally nothing and she just refuses to let up on it. Then, when there’s a misunderstanding about where her and Nick stand in their relationship, the root cause of the issue is Holly assuming it’s all temporary and telling Nick that it’s temporary and then getting mad when he agrees to it being temporary.
Holly is simultaneously the main character and the clueless villain going out of her way to cause her own problems. I’m genuinely very confused on what the appeal is from Nick.
Nick also confessed to her in German (a language she cannot speak) that all he wants from her is a kiss on their business trip before he gets confirmation that Holly is attracted to him as well. Very strange all around.
One pretty concerning element to the story, though, is in a conversation where Nick thinks he's made Holly uncomfortable and tells her that he'll back off and that she can feel free to report him for sexual harassment at their company and Holly immediately brings up how impossible that would be since one of Nick's family members is the head of HR, shutting down any potential to be able to step forward in case Nick had sexually harassed or assaulted Holly. That was so fucking scary to just throw in so casually ?? And then it gets brushed off because the issue has nothing to do with harassment or assault and it's just a simple misunderstanding ???? Wtf?????????
Rant about how casually insufferable Holly is and how randomly creepy Nick gets aside, the chemistry between Nick and Holly was fine and this was overall a ok holiday romance (I guess).
CW: explicit sexual content, innate power imbalance between boss and employee
Every interaction we see between Holly and Nick is almost charming. He’s sarcastic in a subtle, harmless way and when they begin their business trip, he cracks jokes and makes conversation. He remembers minor details about Holly and never mistreats anyone. Holly insists he’s horrible based on literally nothing and she just refuses to let up on it. Then, when there’s a misunderstanding about where her and Nick stand in their relationship, the root cause of the issue is Holly assuming it’s all temporary and telling Nick that it’s temporary and then getting mad when he agrees to it being temporary.
Holly is simultaneously the main character and the clueless villain going out of her way to cause her own problems. I’m genuinely very confused on what the appeal is from Nick.
Nick also confessed to her in German (a language she cannot speak) that all he wants from her is a kiss on their business trip before he gets confirmation that Holly is attracted to him as well. Very strange all around.
One pretty concerning element to the story, though, is in a conversation where Nick thinks he's made Holly uncomfortable and tells her that he'll back off and that she can feel free to report him for sexual harassment at their company and Holly immediately brings up how impossible that would be since one of Nick's family members is the head of HR, shutting down any potential to be able to step forward in case Nick had sexually harassed or assaulted Holly. That was so fucking scary to just throw in so casually ?? And then it gets brushed off because the issue has nothing to do with harassment or assault and it's just a simple misunderstanding ???? Wtf?????????
Rant about how casually insufferable Holly is and how randomly creepy Nick gets aside, the chemistry between Nick and Holly was fine and this was overall a ok holiday romance (I guess).
CW: explicit sexual content, innate power imbalance between boss and employee
823sisi's review against another edition
4.0
This is book 1 of Jana Aston’s new Christmas series. It’s a quick read and was thoroughly enjoyable. It is a hotter version of a Hallmark Christmas movie. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series.