![]() And the writing! I wore out the highlight feature on my Kindle with this one.Ĭhristmas Kitsch by Amy Lane is perhaps my favorite holiday book ever. ![]() It was especially interesting to read about two people who are in society but not of the upper echelon. The dry narrative voice is charming as all get out, and the story itself, of a falconer’s daughter and the gentleman she gets stranded with on the way to a house party, is delightful. Here are some of my favorite holiday books of all kinds:Ī Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong by Cecilia Grant is one of the most exquisitely written stories I’ve read in the past few years. It’s heartbreaking and hopeful and embodies everything I love about holiday romance. In LGBTQ romance in particular, holiday stories are often focused on queer characters finding and making their own families after being rejected by their birth families. I read a wide range of m/f and LGBTQ romance, and my holiday books are the same. ![]() There’s something about the holidays that allow me to access the over-the-top, gushily sentimental core of my heart that is normally hidden under a layer of “loves complicated realism in romance.” At the holidays, I let myself get overwhelmed with love for and joy in my family and friends, and in my romance novels, I go for the holiday gusto every November and December. I have always been a sucker for a holiday romance. ![]()
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