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My Review:Title: Holiday Queen
Author: Claire Marti
Series: California Suits #4
Published by: Indie
Release Date: November 18, 2022
Format: Kobo Book
Pages: 83
Genres: Contemporary, Holiday, Romance
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2023 COYER Chapter 3, Lenoreo's 2023 HoHoHo Readathon
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My rating:
Blurb:Can a wrong number be the beginning of everything right?
Camille Taylor needs a partner for a charity scavenger hunt now that her cheating ex is history. When a sexy text from an intriguing stranger leads to a scorching cocktail date, she asks him to step in.
Chemistry sizzles between them and Trent Bell is happy to play the hero now that fate sent him the most incredible woman he’s ever met. Can a wrong number be the beginning of everything right?One-click this festive, steamy holiday romance with all the feels today!
** A shorter version of this steamy holiday romance originally appeared in the Holiday Heart-On anthology. It has been revised and expanded into a novella. **
2.5 stars — Welp, these freebies can often be a toss up, and this time I just ended up on the wrong side of the coin flip. Sometimes you find a new author to love, and sometimes it just doesn’t match. This was the latter.
If I hadn’t been desperate to try to achieve my goal for a readathon, I probably would have DNF’d…but it was only a novella, so whatever.
For me, the book and the characters and the chemistry all felt a bit shallow and flat and rote. I didn’t feel much of a connection with Camille or Trent. Maybe that’s because it was a novella, but I don’t think that was entirely it. I’ve read novellas where I still feel something for my characters. These felt a bit more one-dimensional.
The chemistry was only okay, I didn’t get wrapped up in the plot or the tension, so yeah…it just basically wasn’t a match for me. Ah well.
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