A great start to the Rainbow Cove Christmas series, this first book by Nora James gets you into the spirit for the coming books.
I enjoyed this book and the it was a fun sweet story of Emily and Christophe. You even get to meet some of the characters from the coming books too.

After his girlfriend runs off with another man, French chef Christophe Duval swears to stay away from women. That all changes when his sexy neighbour Emily Brighton turns up at the lavish Christmas party he throws at his country home in Marandowie. The trouble is, Emily is the queen of mixed signals and Christophe is along for a rollercoaster ride like no other. Will he ever understand her? Will he ever tame her? Or will the fence they set out to build between their two properties keep them apart for good?
This was ok. I didn’t really care for Emily so it soured the book for me a bit. It was a quick and easy read though. Others might not have the same issue I had however.
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First book in a series of four. Struggled with this one a bit, mainly because I didn't like the characters all that much. Emily seems to be missing a prescription to anti-depressants or something, because she is hard to take and really turned me off. Sadly I kept thinking that Christophe could do so much better. Maybe just me though. Would recommend, but suggest reading all the books in the series to help follow the story-line.

This really is a tale of will they wont they. Set in Australia and they are neighbours but what happens along the way. Reading this you may feel as though you are sitting there enjoying the sun along with a glass of something pleasant. I enjoyed this novel and I hope you will to. I recommend this book for you.

I wanted to like this and it did start promising, however, it went downhill pretty quickly. Emily of the sad Christmas back story lives next door to French chef, Christophe. And apparently her sad Christmas back story is an excuse for her to be a total bitch to a guy who pretty much should be the perfect neighbour. (No dogs or all night parties or any other reason is really given as to Emily’s issues – there was the wonky fence which resulted in him seeing through it to her in her pjs in the backyard, I guess. This doesn’t seem enough for her bitter attitude.)

Look, I *love* the old hate-to-love trope, but this one just took things a step too far. Emily is just plain rude. I mean, not to spoil, but one of her things is deliberately calling Christophe ‘Christopher’ even though she knows this is the incorrect pronunciation. That’s not funny or quirky or sexy! It might even be classed as slightly racist.

Instead of UST simmering between the characters, there’s a case for an AVO, or at least a Dispute Resolution Officer coming out to sort out their arguments!

What do I know though because despite all this the characters constantly think about how hot the other is. This *really* started to annoy me (can you tell?). Gods forbid if a romance was based on someone’s personality or intellect or similar likes or ability to make someone laugh. All those people who love Love Island might understand this whole ‘even though she’s spewing out constant vitriol, she’s hot’ mentality but it’s not for me. I need my characters, especially my heroines, to have some redeeming features and I’m afraid Emily has zero. Everyone has a sad story, this doesn’t give you an excuse to be the rudest person on earth.

Couldn’t go on after about 70%.

1 1/2 out of 5

PS The 1 1/2 comes from the food porn (Christophe is a chef after all) and the fact that it is truly a Christmas book with a Christmas setting.

I really enjoyed His Christmas Feast. This is the first book I have read by Nora James and I would like to read more. I found this story to be super relatable and realistic. I really liked reading Christophe and Emily's relationship progress. I definitely recommend this Christmas story and am excited to read the rest of this series.

His Christmas Feast is the first book in the multi author series Rainbow Cove Christmas, and this one is written by Nora James. A sweet, heart-felt and engaging festive romance, His Christmas Feast features the relationship between Emily and Christophe. Deeply emotional, with relatable characters and a realistic, and sometimes sad storyline, this is a story that will touch your heart and keep you thoroughly engrossed till the last page is turned.

This was a sweet, entertaining holiday story. Emily has only experienced heartache on Christmas but Christophe was out of the gossip loop & didn’t know about any of it. He just couldn’t understand why she kept pulling back. As they started to become closer as friends, they both began to yearn for more. Can Christophe change Emily’s mind?

A multi author series with His Christmas Feast being the first book written by Nora James.
A promising start to the Rainbow Cove Christmas series with a relatable storyline and engaging characters. I enjoyed this story and will look to read more in this series and by this author

Very cute and easy to read book set in a great place. A little sad in the story makes the happy that much more so. I finished it in about 3 hours.