Ok, first of all, I did like the book. It is an entertaining story, with well-defined main characters, with real problems or fears.

One of them is the typical Scrooge and the other the Christmas spirit, cheerful and easy going. They've known each other since they were kids and Oliver always had a crush on Zach, but Zach rejected him as a teenager. Years later they meet again due to an accident involving Zach's sister and Oliver's best friend and the sparks reignite. But... Zach is still grieving the loss of his brother, which happened years before and kept him away from his family, and Oliver is not out in the town where they live, and he is afraid that if his sexuality comes out, he will lose it. his work.

And this is the part that I didn't like so much. And if you don't want SPOILERS, please stop reading.
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Until a little more than halfway through the book everything was fine, but towards the end and when Susie wakes up from her coma is where everything changes for me. At first, she did not like me. The whole plot where she and Oliver pretend to be dating or engaged, it seems like she is helping Oli keep up his facade of him because of her fears of him, but she also has her own motives. The problem is that much of the book revolves around Oli's fears, and that he can't bring himself to face them in order to have something real with Zach, besides believing that Zach, now that Susie is okay, will leave again.

My issue is that the resolution of Oliver's problems end up being off page. It turns out that near the end of the book, the director calls a meeting during which one thinks is going to be where Oli is going to be outed by one of his coworkers, who caught them kissing and got mad thinking they were cheating on Susie. Zach shows up suddenly at said meeting to save him only to discover that Oliver had already talked to his boss and everything was fine, and instead of having that part in the book and seeing how he was able to solve that obstacle, it turns out that we find out why Susie pretended to be Oli's fiancée and resolves her situation with the man she was in love with (the same coworker who had discovered them). I mean, all of a sudden we have Susie's story? That would all be fine, in her book. But I'm reading ZACH and OLI's story, so I want to read how THEIR problems are solved, not find out about them OFF PAGE. I don't want a declaration of love from Susie to a co-worker and find out that the meeting at school was to help her get back to work.

I mean, I understand that the author will have wanted to increase "the suspense" and end with something nice. Sort of like a happy ending for everyone, and that's fine, but I feel like for that reason, we're kind of missing the path to Zach and Oliver's happy ending.

I was given an advance copy and wrote voluntarily a review.