Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Blue Christmas

AUTHOR: Viva Gold

PUBLISHER: self-published

LENGTH: 151 pages

RELEASE DATE: November 24, 2018

BLURB:

Kent Village Outlet Mall sits in the heart of Oxford. It is a lively, busy, exciting place to be particularly if you are the young, talented manager of Zapato – a trendy and popular shoe store. Elvis Smith owns that title and boy does he wear it loud and proud. Not everyone loves Elvis, least of all, Mall Manager Vera Kingsley. However, she is soon to learn to her cost, that the owner of the Village, its names sake, Jonah Kent, finds Elvis distinctly appealing.
Jonah is a wealthy, self-made millionaire. He owns retail outlet malls in the UK and the USA where he now lives, having escaped the disapproval of his lifestyle, from his parents. Their upper-class background cares not for his homosexuality; hence his self-imposed exile to New York.
Elvis is young, free and single. He’s career oriented and ambitious. He also sports blue hair, black eyeliner and on most days, a worrying amount of bling.
Somehow, by the magic of Christmas, Elvis and Jonah are thrown together through a series of events, including a charity drive for an LGBTQ+ charity funded by the Woolf-Cohen foundation. When Jonah comes to visit to ensure all the arrangements for the event are running smoothly, he becomes enthralled with a blue haired, blue eyed boy. Elvis in return falls arse over tit for the handsome, over bearing, Jonah Kent.
It seems an unlikely coupling – yet with a back drop of tinsel, mistletoe and yule tide shenanigans, the possibility for love emerges, like the first drop of snow on Christmas Day.

REVIEW:

Oh my, this was one of the funniest damn books. But so sweet, and real. And I had to laugh my ass off at myself sometimes, because you get so used to hearing American slang, that sometimes I forget what English slang is. Every time she mentioned pissed, I would try to figure out the context of someone being mad. Well duh, dumbass me. It meant he was drunk or wasted instead. Yeah I’m a dork sometimes.

Elvis is my spirit animal lol. Smart assy, sassy, sexy, full of spunk (double meaning) and so much more. He got a heart of gold, but he goofs up too. As he will tell you. Although he lives to give Jonah grief. But then again, Jonah needs someone to shake him up and help keep that stick out of his ass. They both had things to learn about each other and in a short amount of time. They were in a whirlwind romance and jumping in would both feet. Maybe. Elvis got a harsh lesson in judging others falsely and had to take a hard look at himself for falsely judging Jonah. Jonah had to learn not everyone gave a crap about his money. Even though it’s nice to date someone with it, not everyone cares one way or another.

It was HILARIOUS though, because from minute one Elvis was sticking his foot in his mouth with Jonah. Being a smartass with him when he didn’t even know this was technically his boss. He saved himself but he still constantly ripped Jonah a new one lol. Jonah, being this alpha bossman wasn’t used to being talked back to or told no. (Well except for his awesome Executive Assistant, Nico. And that man is funny as hell himself.)  Jonah didn’t always know how to act because of it and often out his foot in his mouth lol. But they always made up. And that was just adorable.

Of course, there were doubts for Elvis. Jumping in so fast and being from two different worlds. Plus, Jonah didn’t have the best of families. Whereas Elvis’s family was a dream. Each one had their own things to deal with and overcome. But it made for the best book. This may actually be my favorite Christmas book this year. Just what I needed. I hope you all love it too.

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