Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Yuletide Treasure
SERIES: Goddess-Blessed #3
AUTHOR: Eliot Grayson
PUBLISHER: Smoking Teacup Books
LENGTH: 130 pages
RELEASE DATE: November 8, 2019
BLURB:
There’s not enough Yuletide spirit in the world to fix this holiday disaster…
Eben Sypeman’s world is falling apart. It’s two days before Yule and his business partner is dead, leaving behind empty accounts and looming bankruptcy. And if that isn’t bad enough, his patron goddess is irritated with him. It seems she’s tired of his tendency to mince words and avoid conflict. She’s insisting—quite forcefully—that he start being totally honest with everyone, including himself. Divinely enforced honesty couldn’t have come at a less opportune time, especially when his clerk’s tall, dark and distractingly handsome son enters the picture.
The last thing on Tim Pratchett’s mind is romance. All the former soldier wants is to fill in for his sick father at work and recover from his war wounds in peace. But there’s something about the grumpy Eben that confounds and entices him in equal measure. Their timing couldn’t be worse. They’re complete opposites. And yet…none of that matters when he’s with Eben.
But if Eben and Tim have any hope of finding their very own happily ever after, they’ll have to survive a dickens of a truth curse and the machinations of a trickster goddess—all while searching for enough yuletide treasure to save them all.
A joyous, relaxing Yule indeed. Bah, humbug.
This is an M/M romance with explicit scenes, a voyeuristic pagan goddess, and an odious nephew. Despite any other possible similarities to A Christmas Carol, there are neither ghosts nor geese, but readers can expect a happy ending and at least one use of the word “dickens.”
REVIEW:
Although this isn’t A Christmas Carol, the blurb is correct. It does have its similarities. Names are close but not quite the same. And Timmy is definitely not little or not quite as crippled. He is very much a handsome young man, that Eben is trying not to drool over. Lol. After all, he’s supposed to be more bah humbug.
I think for me with this book, I might have wanted to throttle the goddess, if I was Timmy and Eben. She’s a bit much and I think she needs a hobby. Maybe taking up needlepoint or something, instead of butting into people’s lives. Of course, it doesn’t help that Eben is trying so hard to fight his attraction for Tim. But they have to learn to work together and try to fix the mess Eben’s dead partner made for them. Tim just wants to work for his dad and heal his own self, and working takes his mind off some things and allows his dad the rest he needs. But the more they try to hide things, the more things come to light in ways they wish didn’t. Like I said, the goddess needs a hobby. But the can’t keep fighting the attraction to each other. There’s something about each other that the other needs. They’ve both gotten under each other’s skins and it finally comes to a boiling point.
I like the characters. The writing is pretty good. It was a bit slow in some spots, funny in others and I’d like to wring the goddess’s neck in a lot lol. But ah, such is life in a story. Always have to have that one person you want to strangle lol. But overall, not a bad little story. With it being this close to Christmas, it’s a twist of a classic you can curl up with and just enjoy. Maybe with some cocoa or coffee. Whatever your preference.
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