When Amazon announced this short series of books by some of my favourite authors, I was all for it. I know it was supposed to be a short story, but it just felt too short.  

This book has two points of view. The first is Evie Crowe and she is a single mother working in a thrift store, she is starting over in a strange town with her newborn and men are the furthest thing from her mind. If only the quiet, hulking farmer, Luke Ward, would stop coming into the thrift shop and piquing her reluctant interest. The second point of view is Luke Ward, and he is a gentle giant farmer who can’t find jeans that fit. Evie wants to stay single all the way – she can’t trust anything more than friends-with-holiday-benefits. But Luke is in for the long haul. He's fixed on making this a Christmas Evie will remember forever. If she gives him a chance. When opposites attract, they find themselves making alterations in more ways than one. 

I liked the dual POV, but with it being six chapters it felt like a waste, and it didn’t work with how small it was. If it was 100 pages, I feel like dual POV would have been great. It was mainly smut with a hint of Christmas considering that they slept together on Christmas eve. I would like more background and more side characters but for 53 pages what else are we expecting? I would have liked it to be longer because Tessa’s other holiday work has been amazing and I think I was expecting too much from 53 pages, I wanted more small-town vibes, Christmas traditions. I also hate insta-love vibes but again, short story, they weren’t going to be a build-up of chemistry. There were a few cute moments like Luke proving that he can look after Sonny and that Evie doesn’t have to do it alone. The fact that they were determined to help each other with the jeans and the bike.  

This is the first book of the short stories, but it sorts of set the bar a bit lower than expected so we will see.