This was fine! I wanted more: more Christmas, more music, just… more! I’m not usually into the second chance romance trope, and at first I was not convinced because their chance meetup felt SO unrealistic, but at the end I thought it was well done. The characters were fine and the plot was pretty flat, there were some glimmers of really great romance and fun banter, but on the whole I felt underwhelmed.

I’m also feeling a bit tired of Blake’s formula of two fairly femme white sapphics surrounded by Black and POC friends, like I’m into the queer found family Blake creates each time and would rather a white author write what they know, but it’s just like… we get it! The main gays are white and thin and pretty, and they have an incredibly diverse friend group (who never seem to have their own spinoff stories). I’d like to get a bit more variety from these romances in the future, this one felt like reading all of the others with a slight Christmas sprinkle on top. I’ve read much more compelling holiday sapphic romances, so I’d recommend those first.