Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: A Dye Hard Holiday
SERIES: Curl Up and Dye #5
AUTHOR: Aimee Nicole Walker
NARRATOR: Joel Leslie
PUBLISHER: Tantor Audio
LENGTH: 5 hours, 10 minutes
RELEASE DATE: January 14, 2020
BLURB:
It’s supposed to be the most wonderful time of year for Gabe and Josh Roman-Wyatt as they celebrate their first holidays as fathers, but someone’s war on St. Nick threatens to ruin their holly jolly Christmas.
The Norman Rockwell holiday they had envisioned implodes and shenanigans ensue in true Josh and Gabe style, but that only makes the couple more determined to rejoice in the love and joy they have found in one another. A Black Friday showdown, two foul-mouthed birds, one lumbersexual, ugly Christmas sweaters aplenty, four invading grandparents, and a sexy twist on an advent calendar lead up to oh, holy nights. Catch up with your favorite characters and meet some new faces in a tale that is sure to make you feel as warm as Josh’s creamy, hot-buttered rum concoction.
A Dye Hard Holiday is a funny story about two fathers trying to hold it all together as they juggle busy careers and family life while planning the perfect holiday season. Will they be rocking around the Christmas tree or will it be a blue Christmas?
REVIEW:
Haven’t gotten enough of Christmas yet? Well, you’re in luck. This book will definitely bring the feel of the holidays back. With a lot of snark, banter and sexy times. Hmm, that’s always a given with these books along with great friends and family and delicious food. It will also bring you candy cane handcuffs, naughty advent calendars and a mystery in the form Christmas Bandits that not only hung Santa in a flagpole, but also kept stealing valuable Christmas decorations across town. It was the perfect set up for a great holiday story.
I enjoyed listening to this book a lot. It was filled with everything we’ve come to expect from this series and this time the gang picked up another stray to add to the fold. It’s nice to see how their families are growing, how more are included into it. There’s so much love there, of all kinds. Like I mentioned before, this is a holiday story where the gang is preparing for all things Christmas – the perfect Christmas with ugly sweaters to go around. But say the plans that last, especially when an ex shows up on their doorstep to cause some drama, and then the Christmas Bandits strike a bit too close to home.
Like always, it’s been great to catch up with everyone we’ve come to know and love in his town. And just like always there will hardly be any moment of peace – because whenever there was a lull somewhere you can bet Savage and Sassy were there to liven things up. I still adore those creatures – if nothing else – this series is worth listening to for them only. But you know the rest of it is pretty great too.
Joel Leslie have taken these characters and made them his own. It’s clear in is performance that he loves this series and the characters that live in Blissville. He knows them, who they are to the core and it really shows. I think he connects a bit more with Josh, because that performance is always spot on. He gets Josh’s inner, and often not so inner, drama queen tendencies and his happy-go-lucky personality. But he also really gets Gabe and his protectiveness – and jealousy of anyone coming near Josh. Though I have to wonder; Josh’s apple pie might just beat Josh from that first place in his life I could just see Gabe’s murderous glare when his pie was threatened. 🙂
A Dye Hard Holiday is highly recommended to everyone who’s fallen in love with the people in Blissville and just can’t get enough of them.
RATING: 
BUY LINKS:
[…] Read More » […]