3.75 stars
I was excited to get into the festive spirit with this one but I feel a little bit conflicted.
I did enjoy the fact that they were both secretly super fans of one another.
It was a super easy read that had me captivated but there wasn't quite enough of an emotional connection for me between Bee and Nolan.
Even when they are in the church and Nolan sees Bee in the wedding dress and you think, finally, there's going to be a declaration that they are maybe falling for one another, they just immediately start having sex and that's it.
I never thought that I would get a bit bored by how many spicy scenes there were but after you've read a few of those scenes, it starts to feel a rather repetitive. I also certainly cringed a few times at the descriptions and words used during those encounters.
I did like seeing the somewhat positive representation of plus size women, sex workers and sex more generally but then other times, the way that Sunny or the strippers are described feels almost caricature-ish.
And then Nolan essentially abandons Bee a few different times and releases that statement and there is zero conflict, they just end up together. That felt pretty unrealistic.
However, if you like a small town setting and seriously steamy scenes (I mean if you go into this thinking that a book about a badboy popstar and a porn star is going to be PG-13, I'm not sure what to say), this is an easy read.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.