Thank you to Netgallery and the publisher for the ARC!

3.5 stars!

This novella collection is a fairly light-hearted, entertaining bag of Christmassy lesbian romance. There are three stories in this, and all are different enough to stand out in their own way. If you want something easy-reading and full of older queer characters enjoying Christmas romances then this is definitely for you. I wasn't particularly sold on one story, sadly, which brought down my rating, but I'll go into individual ratings below!

Rating them individually:

'Triple Dog Dare' - 4/5 stars. By far my favourite! This one is about a fake dating fluff fest of 'bring your totally-real girlfriend to christmas at your family's house and...oh wait now, i need someone to pretend to be my partner and OH hello cute neighbour who fits the bill??'. It was cute, charming and packed a surprising amount of emotion and heart with the family aspects. I really liked the natural development between the main leads, and rooted for them the most out of all 3 novella couples.

'Hustle & Bustle' - 2/5 stars. Just not my thing, tbh. The gist: a Christmas market stall runner meets a New York cop who's looking for serious romance. My least favourite, sadly. It felt a lot like listing as many lgbt+ representations in the short span it had, and felt like cop propaganda by a white author. Just felt uncomfortable a lot of the time reading this. Even though (spoilers!!!) one of the main characters leaves her role in the force by the end of the book, it just didn't sit well with me. I don't think it's the right time for this, even in a novella. Even if the author's intentions are good, it made the whole set-up too awkward for me to enjoy the romance, which was actually decent.

'A Christmas Miracle' - 3.5 /5 stars. An anti-Christmas bar runner joins forces with a passionately pro-Christmas cheer party planner. It's flirty, fun and again, has some really nice emotional moments in the short time it has to build them. My only critique with this is the long paragraphs or details towards the beginning that slowed down the pace a bit. The main characters really drive this novella, and their chemistry is awesome!

I REALLY loved the first of the three novellas. The world needs more sapphic romances and I could easily have read a whole novel based around the first story. The other two were OK but for me it was all about the first one and the world needs more sapphic Christmas romances