Thank you NetGalley and Lucy Score for this wonderful Christmas Spirit inducing book. Oh I loved it so much! Lucy’s books are a wonderful escape from reality.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I absolutely loved this book. It was one of the best ones I've read this year and is on now on my top 10 list of favorite Christmas books ever!

Thank you for sending me this ebook to read during the best time of year! Christmas books are hit or miss for me but Lucy Score nailed it! I will be recommending to my girls :)

The perfect blend of Christmasy romantic goodness and is-it-hot-in-here steam!!! I loved the enemies to lovers plot. Noah is my new book BF. I love a hot grump. Highly recommend for your holiday tbr.

✨𝐑 𝐄 𝐕 𝐈 𝐄 𝐖✨

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐱 𝐛𝐲 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐲 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞

I loved this book!! 😍🎄🌶️ thanks so much to @read_bloom @netgalley for the advanced copy of this one! It was truly the perfect read for December!

👍🏼: This holiday enemies-to-lovers romance focuses on Cat King, who is a reality TV star doing home renovations & the town manager, Noah, who doesn’t want the TV networks help after a flood devastated their town and their plans for their traditional Christmas festival. I loved the banter between these two, their motivation to help this small town & of course, the spice in a @scorelucy is always great😂 I’ve read a lot of small-town romances, but this one stood out to me! All of the characters in this town were so lovable, funny, & memorable ❤️ I also super enjoyed the HGTV vibes - it definitely made this book stand out amongst all the other holiday reads!

👎🏼: The story was definitely predictable from about halfway through until the end, but isn’t that the fun in holiday romances? 🤷🏼‍♀️ I also would’ve liked a little more depth between Cat & Noah, as it was very spice forward 😂

Overall, such a fun read for this month & I definitely recommend making time for this one if it’s on your TBR! ❤️👏🏼🎅🏼📚

Rating: 4.25 ⭐️’s

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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✔️ Enemies to lovers
✔️ Small town
✔️ Single dad

This book was such a great way to start up my holiday reading. 🎄Think Hallmark meets HGTV in the best possible way. This book was funny but also gave me all the warm and fuzzies like every good Christmas book should. The small town Merry, came together and really delivered with all the Christmas and family small town vibes - it literally made me want to travel and find this nonexistent town. I fell in love with both of the main characters Cat and Noah. Their chemistry, passion, banter and zingers were all off the charts - SO stinking good. ❤️ I loved that they both judged the other incorrectly and proved that old saying true “you can’t judge a book by its cover” and grew together. Lucy Score is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors, her books always have such good stories that make you laugh and melt into a puddle at the same time.

“You’re the color in a gray day.”


Thank you so much @NetGalley and @Read_Bloom for giving me my copy! ❤️

Lucy Score's The Christmas Fix—the second in the Fixer series—is all about the town of Merry, Connecticut, which has been devastated by a hurricane right before Christmas, their busiest season, the one that keeps the town running economically for the rest of the year. Mayor Noah Yates is completely overwhelmed, but he's determined to get the town back on its feet and ready for the holidays . . . his way.

Reality TV host Catalina King has other ideas. She wants to bring her renovation show to town to use the network's funds to help rebuild. Noah, however, doesn't trust her motives and accuses her of using their tragedy as fuel for a manipulative reality melodrama.

Cat, of course, gets her way, and the reality circus comes to town.

There's plenty of enemies-to-lovers energy fueling this romance, as well as quirky small town vibes as a fun backdrop. Watching Cat prove herself as a serious producer and contractor is incredibly satisfying, and as she wins over Noah and his sweet daughter, the holiday season builds.

I hadn't read book one (Mr. Fixer Upper) before picking up this one, which was fine, but I liked it enough that I'm going back anyway!

Lucy Score is your gal if you need a quick read. A great pick me up, a giggle, a cry she has it all.
I love a great Christmas story. This author has nailed it.

Thank you Net Galley, the publisher and Lucy Score for the copy of this publication. I was gifted this book for my unbiased review.

It’s difficult for me to rate this book. On the one hand, I did like the fierce, unstoppable FMC, but on the other hand, the MMC was insufferable. I hate me a man who’s mysoginistic until the FMC proves to him that girls can be “different” and not shallow. You shouldn’t need someone to prove that to you at 35🙄 I think maybe this author’s books just aren’t for me.

There is so much about The Christmas Fix that I loved. The novel combined two of my favorite things, Christmas and reality fixer upper shows! The characters were fun and believable and the authors clever way of making the main characters have a pre-meeting was clever. The development of the plot was quick enough to hold your interest with enough detail to make the novel feel complete. The only issue I had was the X rated descriptions of sex. I prefer, pg-13 or mild R rated descriptions. It did make me wonder where this mild mannered divorced city planner would develop such formidable skills.
Because of the graphic sex scenes, which did not add anything to the novel, there are not many people I could recommend this book to, which is a shame because I loved the story. This is the first novel I read from this author, so maybe it is my fault and this is just their style.

The Christmas Fix is the second book in the Fixer series. I did not enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed the first book. I went into this book in hopes of finding a perfect Christmas Hallmark feel story, but I ended up being slightly disappointed. It took way too long to root for Noah and Cat. Noah seemed too grumpy and judgmental at first, and they went from hating to kissing each other in a blink of an eye. Noah’s daughter added some fun to the story, and I loved seeing glimpses of Gannon, Paige, and their new baby! I adored the ending and how the community united after a tragedy and tried to spread the Christmas spirit again.


Thank you to NetGallery and to SourceBooks for giving me a copy of this book.

We stand for a cute Christmas romance especially when it mixes HGTV with spice. I ate this book up. This was the perfect read to get into the Christmas spirit. Small town grump meets dazzling badass renovation TV star. We love to see it. I can't explain how good this book was, so I guess you'll have to read it for yourself ;)

The Christmas Fix
Cue the waterworks. Oh my goodness, this one was just the perfect dose of Christmas magic. ✨

The Gist:
The Christmas Fix is book 2 in the Fixer Upper duo. It’s listed as a stand alone also, which would probably be fine, but I def advise reading Paige & Gannon’s story first!

Cat returns to the town of Merry to clean up after a hurricane wrecks the town. The grumpy city manager loathes Cat, her fixer upper show, and doesn’t want her to help clean up.


Things I loved:
-Single Dad Trope
-Paige & Gannon snippets
- Cat’s heart for helping
-🎄 Christmas theme!


My Reflection:
I absolutely love Lucy’s book, but this one was so heartfelt! I was crying over Merry in the first like 10%. 🫣😂


Read if you like:
Small Town Charm
Celebrity Life
Grumpy X Sunshine
Enemies to Lovers
Single Dad

The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score is the perfect Hallmark style romance book, with a little more spice. When Cat comes into the small town of Merry to do a Christmas TV special after a devastating flood, Noah the town manager is less than thrilled. He believes Cat is a stuck up celebrity, and well she thinks he's a down right ass. This sets off into a very comical enemies to lovers story that I enjoyed quite a lot (despite not usually loving Enemy to Lover story lines). The whole story is charming, and leaves you rooting for Cat, Noah, and honestly every single character in this book. It's a super quick read, making it a great book to curl up by the fireplace with and drink some cocoa this holiday season. It definitely gets spicy in parts, so if you are more of a closed door romance reader, be aware of that. As my first Lucy Score book, it was fantastic and I'll be checking out more very soon.

This was my first book from Lucy Score, which apparently was a second in series, but could be read as a standalone and I wasn't confused reading this one first. I enjoyed it but I'm not in a rush to read any others just yet.

Catalina "Cat" King is the star of a reality home renovation show similar to Extreme Home Makeover along with her twin brother, and this brash Brooklyn babe takes no nonsense. When the town of Merry, Connecticut, site of a former renovation, finds itself in the direct path of a hurricane similar to Superstorm Sandy, she has the idea to go back to the town to fix the home they had previously renovated, as well as get the town prepared for their famous Christmas festival in a few short weeks. Uptight city manager Noah Yates is vehemently opposed to the idea, thinking that Cat is a vapid, soulless reality TV harpy who is looking to profit off of his townspeople's suffering. Cat is gravely insulted and let's Noah have it like only a NY girl can. She's not quite sure why he gets under her skin, unlike other men who have underestimated her in the past. After a night out at the town's only bar, rigid single dad Noah let's go of his inhibitions and an argument with Cat in the alleyway turns steamy. Cat is willing to keep things casual because of her nomadic lifestyle, but Noah, with the responsibilities of a preteen daughter and town who needs him, need something more. As they continue to sneak behind closed doors and job opportunities across the country present themselves to Cat, she has to evaluate what she truly wants out of life.

For the first half of the book, I actually didn't like Cat much at all. I knew this would eventually make for some 🔥 enemies to lovers exchanges later in the story, which did not disappoint. I much preferred Noah's character, who was responsible and dependable but when he let loose...🥵 This was definitely the kind of book where the second half made up for the first for me. It was a fast read, and while home renovation and reality TV aren't my favorite themes, I did end up enjoying this one more than I initially thought I would.

Book Review
The Christmas Fix by Lucy Score

Tropes and Thoughts
Hallmark 🎅🏻meets home Reno🔨
Crying mushy 🥺
Divorced co parents- they make it work ( no easy feat) 👏👏👏
Food insecurity
Single Dad
Family
Small town- Merry
Enemies to lovers
Sexual tension and build up
Steamy (Hallmark after dark 🍆🔥🍆🔥)
Feel good story - makes you believe in the kindness and compassion of others, Full of Christmas spirit
Happily ever after guaranteed

Characters
Noah- grumpy enemy
Cat- sunshine, assertive career minded female MC
Town full of amazing secondary characters

Overall
Loved this book! Everything. The people, the story, the setting, the ending. Everything.
Read it!!!

Thank you to @Sourcebooks @bloombooks @netgalley for my digital ARC in return for an honest review

Thank you to NetGalley for providing a digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. Reality fixer upper star Cat storms into Merry to save it from a flood during the holiday season at the reluctance of town manager Noah. Some witty banter that breaks down the walls each have built up unveils a glimmer of something. The perfect combo of a small town romance no one saw coming (except us the reader) and the holiday heat we come to expect from Lucy Score!

Thank you to NetGalley, Sourcebooks Bloom Books, and, I can’t believe I get to say this again, Lucy Score, for an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review! (Just in time for Christmas!)

I would let Lucy Score write on my forehead with a sharpie —scratch that—a tattoo gun, just for a chance to read something that she’s written. She writes strong, feisty women. She writes heartwarming, inclusive small towns. Better than anything, in my opinion, she writes devastating men.

And the most heartwarming, absolutely devastating, small-town man showed up in this novel. The grumpy Mr. No himself. Noah, like every mmc of Lucy’s that I’ve ever read, was perfectly hostile. Is it a red flag of mine if that has me skipping around and kicking my feet?? Maybe! But you’re just going to have to find out for yourself how all of the hostility gets sorted out. You’re welcome in advance.

And we mustn’t forget Cat, the fearless ball of energy with big dreams of making the world, and especially Merry, a better place to live in. Does she have a spot in her schedule for Mr. Right? (Or Mr. No!)

But also the important things too, like can Christmas be saved for the small, holiday-spirit-filled town of Merry??
Grab a copy to find out!!

‘Tis the Season to be in Merry!
If you haven’t been enchanted by a Lucy Score book, perhaps the Bloom release of The Christmas Fix (only to be precluded by Mr. Fixer Upper) will be the fix for your holiday romance set in a small town (duh) craving.

Because who isn’t craving a small town, holiday romance at this time of year? There’s an entire network who has cornered the market on cozy holiday romances, but what they can’t deliver on is the superb repartee of Lucy Score characters and the spice that kindles even the coldest of grinchy hearts. Not to mention, Lucy Score guarantees a happily ever after and epilogues that would satisfy absolutely everyone.

The Christmas Fix premise is simple. Devastated by flooding the small town of Merry is in dire need of a fix or all the of holiday revenue that gets them through the winter is lost, the residents displaced, and the businesses shuttered. Noah is the Town Planner and the man tasked with saving his small town. His only option is partnering with Catalina (Cat) a superstar in the renovation world and current star of a hit show on a home and building network. Cat is more than ready to roll up her sleeves and put in the long hours it would take to get Merry up and running by Christmas Eve, but Noah wants nothing to do with it.

“If people wanted to keep putting her in the pretty Barbie box, she was just going to keep cutting and smashing her way out over and over again until they learned her lesson.”
Luckily for him, Cat doesn’t back down from the surly single dad, and Noah hasn’t got any other options. At every interaction Cat and Noah’s chemistry is off the charts. Their animosity and banter are catnip for enemies to lover’s fans. Although I particularly enjoyed that Noah and his ex are amicable co-parents for their daughter. That portrayal of a modern co-parenting relationship is refreshing when so many exes are depicted as the antagonist of many storylines.

Lucy Score always delivers on plenty of lead up with foreplay mixed with banter and ultimately plenty of smoldering spice. The cast of characters from previous books made it thoroughly enjoyable. Even though it’s been years since I read Mr. Fixer Upper when it first released, I can say that I didn’t miss out on any of the details so The Christmas Fix can easily be read as a standalone.

If you’re looking for a holiday romance that delivers a cozy HEA but doesn’t skimp on the banter and the spice then look no further. The Christmas Fix is available everywhere you want to buy a book and is also available in audiobook too! Bee sure to look for Darienne’s review of Mr. Fixer Upper as well!

It started off promising, but took a nose dive about 50% in when the story started to drag and then the sex scenes were over top, Just not for me! DNF at 60%.

Thank you very much to Netgalley and Sourcebooks Bloom Books for the advanced reader’s copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.