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A review by bookdragonheart
Misplaced Mistletoe by Isabel Jolie, Isabel Jolie
5.0
4.5 stars! This was a sweet, sexy holiday second chance novella. Nora and Ashton first hook up at her company’s holiday party. What starts with a kiss under the mistletoe takes them away from the party and into her apartment. While not technically a one night thing, they do get back together another time after that holiday party encounter, Ashton essentially ghosts her. And after she found out he was her new boss’ brother, and she wasn’t wanting to get a bad reputation at her new job, it still crushed her to be ghosted by the first guy she decided to hook up with since coming to New York.
Flash forward 8 years, and Nora finds herself, once again, face to face with Ashton at her company’s holiday party. Only this time, despite how sexy and attractive she still finds him, she’s pissed, and not at all interested in giving him a second chance. Too bad nobody told her body that. And Ashton is determined to get the sexy redhead that he never forgot back into his good graces. The story is told in an alternating current day/flash back format for about two thirds of the book. This is actually really effective for this story, as it gives us peeks back to that first set of experiences and slowly provides peeks into where Nora’s head is at now as she navigates the current situation with Ashton. They were both much younger, and he definitely made his share of mistakes, so it’s good to see him own up to that and work to make up for it. It gets emotional as Nora decides to slowly open herself up to possibility, terrified of having her heart broken again. But they do have great chemistry, and if anything that spurs them along.
The holidays are a nice backdrop for their story, but really not consequential to a lot. Neither of them is particularly crazy about Christmas, which is actually something they have in common. The story unfolds naturally and realistically, and was a good, sexy, fun, emotional holiday romance.
Flash forward 8 years, and Nora finds herself, once again, face to face with Ashton at her company’s holiday party. Only this time, despite how sexy and attractive she still finds him, she’s pissed, and not at all interested in giving him a second chance. Too bad nobody told her body that. And Ashton is determined to get the sexy redhead that he never forgot back into his good graces. The story is told in an alternating current day/flash back format for about two thirds of the book. This is actually really effective for this story, as it gives us peeks back to that first set of experiences and slowly provides peeks into where Nora’s head is at now as she navigates the current situation with Ashton. They were both much younger, and he definitely made his share of mistakes, so it’s good to see him own up to that and work to make up for it. It gets emotional as Nora decides to slowly open herself up to possibility, terrified of having her heart broken again. But they do have great chemistry, and if anything that spurs them along.
The holidays are a nice backdrop for their story, but really not consequential to a lot. Neither of them is particularly crazy about Christmas, which is actually something they have in common. The story unfolds naturally and realistically, and was a good, sexy, fun, emotional holiday romance.