The cover got me! I liked the parts that involved meeting at the school and those interactions. Not my favorite holiday book ever, but a good read. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

I really like the plot here, though at parts it felt a little underdeveloped and I wish we would have lingered more in the beginning to really set up the story and relationships.

In this novella we explore the relationship of two people who share this sort of forbidden love because he’s her best friend's (ex)husband and she thinks she broke them up. Having no prior knowledge of the series this is part of, I think this book was what a prequel should be! I think the author got straight to the point in introducing the characters that did not necessarily require you to read the other books in the series (I will definitely be going back and reading those, though!) I felt very immersed in the story as the author is very descriptive in their writing but not in a way that drags the story out. The novella was short and to the point, but not at the expense of the cutesy story.

This novella is a short read and great if you want to get in the holiday spirit without too much of a time commitment!