Like the last few years we at Love Bytes are reviewing the whole DSP advent calender

There will be a review posted each day (except Sundays and Holidays so some days will have two reviews instead) throughout the month of December.

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Reviewed by Cheryl

TITLE: Silver and Solstice

SERIES: Advent Calendar: Homemade for the Holidays

AUTHOR: TJ Nichols

PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press

LENGTH: 43 Pages

RELEASE DATE: December 1, 2019

BLURB:

Calvin is good at two things: stealing and being the worst boyfriend ever. He can’t help his sticky fingers, even though Rafe has pleaded with him to stop. When a job goes horribly wrong, Calvin’s fate is in the hands of his silversmith boyfriend.

Rafe has done everything he can to put distance between himself and the restrictions of being a princeling. He has a craft, a shop, a shifter boyfriend, and lives a completely disreputable life.

But to save Calvin from spending Solstice in a cage, Rafe will have to step up and face his father, head of the city guard. Rafe’s father has had enough of Calvin flouting the law. Shifters are supposed to be collared in the city.

Calvin finally knows what to make for Rafe for solstice, though it breaks the promise they made to each other….

REVIEW:

The author has done a great job of cramming a lot into a small space. Given the shortness of the book, there is some lovely world building and character development.

Calvin is delicious. He’s a cat shifter in a place where such creatures are only valued when owned by someone. He’s absolutely adamant that he’s not going to be owned by anyone, not even, Rafe. He loves Rafe but won’t quite go so far as to admit it and as a result he finds himself in big trouble. I suffered along with him as he battled his conscience, as the author did well in getting under his skin.

If I have any complaints, the writing does get a little stilted in places. I love the emotional depth which I struggle to find in some books, especially short ones, and although there is definitely a romance it isn’t the focus of the story.

I would very much recommend this book as a short, sweet, one-sitting slice of adventure and adorable kitty-ness.

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