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Karen Malina White
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Georgia K. Boone
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For fans of The Holiday comes a heartwarming Christmas house-swap rom-com debut in which finding yourself and finding love come hand in hand.
Bee Tyler needs a break. In the bustling San Francisco tech community, no one ever seems to stand still—especially her perfect sister and business partner, Beth. So when her best friend suggests a getaway on the wildly popular house-swap app, Vacate, Bee decides a countryside retreat might be exactly what she needs.
Clover Mills has had a year. Between losing her mother and making the complicated decision to leave her fiancé, sticking around the idyllic Christmas obsessed town of Salem, Ohio, just doesn’t feel right. So when she hears about Vacate, she jumps at the chance to spend the holidays in the unfamiliar city of San Francisco.
Soon enough, Bee is living in Clover’s cozy Salem cottage, and Clover is living in Bee’s sleek San Francisco apartment. As Clover can’t seem to stop running into Bee’s frustratingly gorgeous sister, Beth, and Bee finds herself spending more and more time with Clover’s ultra charming ex-fiancé, Knox, the two women realize that this Christmas they may find just what they were looking for and more…
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City girl Tia Solanké is dreading the festive season. She and her boyfriend are on a break and the last thing she wants is to spend Christmas away from London. Dragged to Saiyan Hedge Farm by her mother, Tia takes an instant dislike to the countryside estate. She falls in horse manure, is chased by sheep and the Wi-Fi sucks. How can she stalk her ex and concoct a foolproof plan to win him back from here?
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Cute story that kept my attention
- By Ashley on 02-16-25
By: Abiola Bello
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You Make It Feel Like Christmas
- By: Toni Shiloh
- Narrated by: Jasmin Walker
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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It's the most wonderful time of the year—for everyone except Starr Lewis. As if going home for the holidays jobless and single wasn't bad enough, she's dragged into a holiday season full of activities leading up to her sister's uber-romantic Christmas Eve wedding—to Starr's ex-boyfriend. But when her brother's best friend, Waylon Emmerson, attends their family Thanksgiving, she starts to wonder if maybe coming home for Christmas isn't so bad after all.
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Heartfelt Love Story
- By Amazon Customer on 12-20-24
By: Toni Shiloh
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Christmas in Spite of You
- By: K.C. Mills
- Narrated by: Ebony Ford, Tony Roberts
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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After pumping her hard-earned savings into a business plan that doesn’t pan out, Noel Anderson is left financially strapped and needs a way to earn money to stay afloat. She decides to rent her apartment as an Airbnb for the Christmas holidays while visiting her family for Christmas. What she didn’t plan on was coming down ill and having to cancel the trip. Kanton Joseph is on the cusp of securing a lucrative business deal. In order to get a one-up on his competition, he rents an Airbnb in the same apartment complex where his potential client resides. He’s surprised when he shows up,.
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WOW!!!
- By Mrs.V on 02-22-25
By: K.C. Mills
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Love in Winter Wonderland
- By: Abiola Bello
- Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith, Nneka Okoye
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Charming, handsome Trey Anderson balances the pressures of school popularity with a job at his family’s beloved local bookshop, Wonderland. Quirky, creative Ariel Spencer needs tuition for the prestigious art program of her dreams, and an opening at Wonderland is the answer. When Trey and Ariel learn that Wonderland is on the brink of being shut down by a neighborhood gentrifier, they team up to stop the doors from closing before the Christmas Eve deadline—and embark on a hate-to-love journey that will change them forever.
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LOVE LOVE LOVE
- By LBJ on 12-20-24
By: Abiola Bello
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A Novel Christmas
- By: Charity Shane'
- Narrated by: Tony Roberts, Charlie L. Wood
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Saira Wright is a prominent Black romance author who has been signed to the most prestigious publisher of African American works, Brownstone Literature. Her career has been successful for the past five years. However, she’s in a slump, and so are her sales and reviews. The romance she has been known for seems to be zapped out of her stories and her love life. Eager to get Saira back on top of the charts, her publisher has given her an ultimatum—write a chart-topping holiday romance or be dropped from the publishing house. There’s only one problem: Saira strongly opposes penning holiday books.
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Very good
- By Turtleberry on 01-10-25
By: Charity Shane'
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The Christmas Catch
- By: Toni Shiloh
- Narrated by: Jasmin Walker
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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Benched with a career-ending injury, NFL wide receiver Jahleel Walker is forced to return to his hometown of Peachwood Bay, Georgia, during the holidays to heal, despite his rocky relationship with his father. Nothing shocks him more than running into Lucille “Bebe” Gordon.
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Easy holiday read
- By Tara on 12-28-24
By: Toni Shiloh
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Only for the Holidays
- By: Abiola Bello
- Narrated by: Kenton Thomas, Nneka Okoye
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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City girl Tia Solanké is dreading the festive season. She and her boyfriend are on a break and the last thing she wants is to spend Christmas away from London. Dragged to Saiyan Hedge Farm by her mother, Tia takes an instant dislike to the countryside estate. She falls in horse manure, is chased by sheep and the Wi-Fi sucks. How can she stalk her ex and concoct a foolproof plan to win him back from here?
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Cute story that kept my attention
- By Ashley on 02-16-25
By: Abiola Bello
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You Make It Feel Like Christmas
- By: Toni Shiloh
- Narrated by: Jasmin Walker
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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It's the most wonderful time of the year—for everyone except Starr Lewis. As if going home for the holidays jobless and single wasn't bad enough, she's dragged into a holiday season full of activities leading up to her sister's uber-romantic Christmas Eve wedding—to Starr's ex-boyfriend. But when her brother's best friend, Waylon Emmerson, attends their family Thanksgiving, she starts to wonder if maybe coming home for Christmas isn't so bad after all.
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Heartfelt Love Story
- By Amazon Customer on 12-20-24
By: Toni Shiloh
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Christmas in Spite of You
- By: K.C. Mills
- Narrated by: Ebony Ford, Tony Roberts
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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After pumping her hard-earned savings into a business plan that doesn’t pan out, Noel Anderson is left financially strapped and needs a way to earn money to stay afloat. She decides to rent her apartment as an Airbnb for the Christmas holidays while visiting her family for Christmas. What she didn’t plan on was coming down ill and having to cancel the trip. Kanton Joseph is on the cusp of securing a lucrative business deal. In order to get a one-up on his competition, he rents an Airbnb in the same apartment complex where his potential client resides. He’s surprised when he shows up,.
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WOW!!!
- By Mrs.V on 02-22-25
By: K.C. Mills
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Love in Winter Wonderland
- By: Abiola Bello
- Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith, Nneka Okoye
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Charming, handsome Trey Anderson balances the pressures of school popularity with a job at his family’s beloved local bookshop, Wonderland. Quirky, creative Ariel Spencer needs tuition for the prestigious art program of her dreams, and an opening at Wonderland is the answer. When Trey and Ariel learn that Wonderland is on the brink of being shut down by a neighborhood gentrifier, they team up to stop the doors from closing before the Christmas Eve deadline—and embark on a hate-to-love journey that will change them forever.
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LOVE LOVE LOVE
- By LBJ on 12-20-24
By: Abiola Bello
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A Novel Christmas
- By: Charity Shane'
- Narrated by: Tony Roberts, Charlie L. Wood
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Saira Wright is a prominent Black romance author who has been signed to the most prestigious publisher of African American works, Brownstone Literature. Her career has been successful for the past five years. However, she’s in a slump, and so are her sales and reviews. The romance she has been known for seems to be zapped out of her stories and her love life. Eager to get Saira back on top of the charts, her publisher has given her an ultimatum—write a chart-topping holiday romance or be dropped from the publishing house. There’s only one problem: Saira strongly opposes penning holiday books.
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Very good
- By Turtleberry on 01-10-25
By: Charity Shane'
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Most Wonderful
- A Christmas Novel
- By: Georgia Clark
- Narrated by: Patti Murin, Kristen Sieh, Shawn K. Jain
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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The holidays are fast approaching, and the Belvedere siblings are a mess. Liz, a Hollywood showrunner and responsible eldest, has no idea how to follow up her hit show’s first season, or how to deal with her giant crush on its star, Violet Grace. Birdie turned her chronic middle-child syndrome into a career as a stand-up comic, but since she spends more time wooing women than working on new material, she’s facing one-hit-wonder status, especially once she gets axed by her manager.
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Queer “Love, Actually” Vibes
- By Malmal on 12-23-24
By: Georgia Clark
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Second Chance Christmas
- By: Jahquel J.
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon, Gene Roberson, Sable Lyn
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Being known as the daughter of the Sageport’s town drunk always left Faith Stone defending her mother and herself. Her only solace was her boyfriend, Rome. Even as a teenager, Faith knew she wanted forever with Rome Atkins. Their small town, her mother’s struggles, and everyone’s opinions of their relationship couldn’t hold them back forever. After graduation, they would put Sageport behind them and start life anew together … but prom night changed everything.
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well crafted story
- By Cole on 01-08-25
By: Jahquel J.
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I'll Get Back to You
- A Novel
- By: Becca Grischow
- Narrated by: Allison Grischow
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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A charming homerun of a queer holiday romance where two former classmates’ plan to fake-date their way to freedom goes immediately awry—but, perhaps, exactly the way they need it to.
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I'll Get Back to You
- By MLTU on 12-05-24
By: Becca Grischow
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Make the Season Bright
- By: Ashley Herring Blake
- Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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It's been five years since Charlotte Donovan was ditched at the altar by her ex-fiancée, and she’s doing more than okay. Sure, her single mother never checks in, but she has her strings ensemble, the Rosalind Quartet, and her life in New York is a dream come true. As the holidays draw near, her ensemble mate Sloane persuades Charlotte and the rest of the quartet to spend Christmas with her family in Colorado. But when Charlotte arrives, she discovers that Sloane’s sister Adele also brought a friend home—and that friend is none other than her ex, Brighton.
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Make the Season Bright
- By Stephanie on 02-06-25
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The Most Wonderful Time
- A Novel
- By: Jayne Allen
- Narrated by: Mela Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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With Christmas around the corner, Ramona Tucker is desperate to get away. She has been lying to her family about her engagement to Malik, her (ex) fiancé. But breakups are fickle, and Ramona is convinced that she can make her pretend wedding real again—but only if she can avoid everyone discovering her secret at her mother’s over-the-top Christmas Eve party.
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Cute
- By Latoya T. on 02-18-25
By: Jayne Allen
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Make My Wish Come True
- By: Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick
- Narrated by: Krystal Hammond, Natalie Naudus
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Caroline Beckett has spent those last four years shining up a stellar portfolio that will get her into a top journalism program and convincing herself she could not be less interested in what her former best friend and first crush has been up to since she left without a word. But when Arden suddenly shows up at her doorstep with the promise of a real byline in Cosmopolitan in exchange for a write up on their “secret romance” and twelve snow-covered holidates in their Christmas-obsessed hometown, Caroline can’t help but be tempted into playing along.
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Love and life
- By Shane on 02-09-25
By: Rachael Lippincott, and others
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How to Excavate a Heart
- By: Jake Maia Arlow
- Narrated by: Hope Newhouse
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom’s Subaru. Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part of Shani’s plan. She was supposed to be focusing on her monthlong paleoichthyology internship. She was going to spend all her time thinking about dead fish and not at all about how she was unceremoniously dumped days before winter break. It could be going better.
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OMG the angst..
- By Jennifer R. Reaves on 01-10-24
By: Jake Maia Arlow
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The Holly Dates
- By: Brittainy Cherry
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Aaron Shedlock
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Quirky Holly Jackson was unlucky in love, yet her romantic heart refused to give up her search for companionship—even after her fiancé left her at the altar on Christmas Eve. Grumpy restaurant owner Kai Kane wanted nothing to do with love. Unfortunately for him, when an eccentric Holly kept entering his restaurant nightly with a different first date, his annoyance grew. When Kai volunteered to help Holly find a suitor, it was for one reason only: to get her out of his restaurant and on to a second date with someone at a different location.
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Great, just not my kind of Xmas romance
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 07-30-24
By: Brittainy Cherry
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Power Pose
- By: Emily Silver
- Narrated by: Samantha Brentmoor, Rose Dioro
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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She’s my fake girlfriend…that’s it. It’s not real. To get the company of my dreams, I need a girlfriend. For three weeks. Of course, being the workaholic I am, there are no prospects in sight. When I hire Blair Stevens to be my girlfriend, I think nothing of it. I can fake it with the best of them for a few weeks to get what I want. My dream company. I won’t fall for her, right?
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A Wonderfully Sweet Story!
- By Amy Hockinson on 11-11-24
By: Emily Silver
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Season of Love
- By: Helena Greer
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Emily Lawrence
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Thanks to her thriving art career, Miriam Blum finally has her decoupaged glitter ducks in a row—until devastating news forces her to a very unwanted family reunion. Her beloved great-aunt Cass has passed and left Miriam part-owner of Carrigan’s, her (ironically) Jewish-run Christmas tree farm. But Miriam’s plans to sit shiva, avoid her parents, then put Carrigan’s in her rearview mirror are spoiled when she learns the business is at risk of going under.
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Good story, but god do I hate dual narrator
- By Omaha Nightblade on 12-11-24
By: Helena Greer
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It's a Fabulous Life
- By: Kelly Farmer
- Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw, Pete Cross
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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After years of putting aside her dreams of travel and adventure, Bailey George is ready to leave Lanford Falls and her responsibilities behind on a long-awaited vacation to New York City. But when the volunteer who took over her leadership position for the town's Winter Wonderfest has a medical emergency, Bailey finds herself stuck in Lanford Falls. She gets roped into reassuming her old role, not wanting to let the town or her friends and family down.
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It's a Fabulous Life
- By MLTU on 12-15-24
By: Kelly Farmer
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The Holiday Switch
- By: Tif Marcelo
- Narrated by: Leiana Bertrand
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Lila Santos is ready for her last winter break of high school. The snow in her small town of Holly, New York, is plentiful, the mood is as cozy as a fuzzy Christmas sweater, and she's earning extra cash working at the local inn - AKA the setting of the greatest film of all time, Holiday by the Lake - while moonlighting as an anonymous book blogger. But her perfect holiday plans crash to a halt when her boss's frustratingly cute nephew, Teddy Rivera, becomes her coworker. Lila is type A; Teddy is type “Anything but Lila’s Way".
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This book is definitely a good Christmas book to read over the holidays. I would not recommend any other time.
- By Fashion mama on 01-09-25
By: Tif Marcelo
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- Courtney T.
- 12-13-24
A Christmas Twist
This was such a good story! Loved it! The main characters were funny, honest, and full of life. Themes: LGBTQ+, grief, depression, new love
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- Tacie
- 12-11-24
Heartwarming Holiday Listen
I’ll Be Gone for Christmas by Georgia K. Boone is a delightful holiday rom-com that gives off major The Holiday vibes while offering a fresh and unique twist. Narrated beautifully by Angel Pean and Karen Malina White, the dual POV performance adds depth and charm to this cozy Christmas tale, making it a great listen for the holiday season.
Bee Tyler and Clover Mills couldn’t be more different, yet their house-swap adventure sets them on a path to discover new perspectives and, of course, unexpected love. Bee’s escape from the fast-paced San Francisco tech world to Clover’s quaint, Christmas-obsessed town of Salem, Ohio, is brimming with cozy vibes and charming surprises. Meanwhile, Clover’s swap to the sleek, bustling city life of San Francisco leads her to unexpected connections—and a fresh start she didn’t know she needed.
The narration brings the characters and their settings to life, seamlessly capturing the warmth of Clover’s small-town life and the buzz of Bee’s city existence. The dual POV format adds layers to the story, making the transitions between Salem and San Francisco smooth and engaging.
One of the many things that makes this story shine is its diverse and lovable cast of characters, as well as the rich communities crafted by the author. From Clover’s charming ex-fiancé Knox to Bee’s frustrating yet gorgeous sister Beth, the supporting characters add humor, heart, and just the right amount of drama to keep things interesting.
With low angst and low steam, this is a super sweet, feel-good read that keeps the focus on the emotional connections and growth of its characters. It’s a great choice for readers who love wholesome holiday stories with a sprinkle of romance and self-discovery.
If you’re looking for a festive and heartwarming escape, I’ll Be Gone for Christmas delivers the perfect blend of charm, humor, and holiday cheer. Grab a cup of cocoa and let this delightful story whisk you away—it’s the holiday treat you didn’t know you needed!
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- Chelsea
- 12-07-24
Heartwarming and fun!
I loved this Christmas romance! Perfect way to get in the spirit of the holidays. Bee and Clover are great leads. Bee is a free spirit that needs a fresh start. Clover is a dutiful daughter that finally takes the leap to be herself!
Love the found family in San Francisco and Clover’s family on the farm. Jimmy is a fav. Clover’s dad just made everything feel better. Dream dad for sure.
I even liked the straight couple as much as the lesbian one. I definitely showed up for Clover’s adventure, but Bee and Knox surprised me.
Loved watching Clover melt Beth’s heart. Especially loved that Clover was responsible about coming out. She treated Beth well, instead of trying to hide her or move too fast before she was ready.
Loved seeing Bee be loved and supported for who she is. Loved her romance with Knox. The lessons around the farm were adorable. Loved all the cute holiday festivities in the town.
I adored Bee and Beth working out their misunderstandings. Bee describes her sister in a brutal way. I was surprised in a good way, that Beth was a lot kinder, when we meet her, through Clover. She’s very direct, but clearly loves with her actions.
Loved this debut! Can’t wait to see what the author comes up with next!
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