Reviewed by Danielle
TITLE: Flake It Till You Make It
SERIES: Christmas Falls Season 2
AUTHOR: Beth Bolden
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 246 Pages
RELEASE DATE: November 15, 2024
It’s beginning to taste a lot like Christmas . . .
When Rocco Moretti gets the chance to buy a coffee shop in a small Illinois town, it feels like a miracle. And in true Christmas Falls tradition, Jolly Java is a holiday-flavored one.
He sets up shop and starts experimenting with recipes. The only problem? His changes go over like a piece of coal on Christmas morning. Instead of serving up cups of holiday cheer, he’s getting a solid “bah humbug” vibe from the town.
He needs another miracle, stat.
Enter Deputy Mayor Taylor Hall.
With the town’s city manager retiring, Taylor is looking to make a leadership move, but his dream is melting because the city council still sees him as an outsider. He needs to prove he’s in Christmas Falls to stay, and what better way than by getting a boyfriend?
Even a fake one.
Rocco needs the town’s acceptance, so why not date the deputy mayor? Faking it till they make it will be a means to an end. That’s all.
But sharing the holiday season wins over more than the town’s hearts. With each date, each mistletoe kiss, and every steamy night in front of the fire, it wins over theirs as well.
Come Christmas morning, there’s really only one miracle Rocco wants under his tree.
For the love they’ve been faking to become real.
Christmas Falls: Season 2 revisits a small town that thrives on enough holiday charm to rival any Hallmark movie. It’s a multi-author M/M romance series.
REVIEW:
Let me start with saying I have a huge soft spot for these Christmas Falls books! Combine that with my love for Beth Bolden’s books/writing and this is of course a match made in heaven. I was excited from the moment I read the Indigo Bay books and found out that this year’s Christmas Falls book from Beth would be about Rocco. And what a book it was!
It is great to see Rocco finding his own way here in Christmas Falls and his match with Taylor is terrific. It is sweet, hesitant,”genuine”(wink) and sexy.
The fake boyfriend trope is not new or surprising yet the author has a way of working around that part and made sure it didn’t come out boring or overdone.
The build up to Rocco and Tayler getting together in the complete sense of the word is slow but not too slow. It is lovely to read how they turn each other around and being hesitant. I loved reading it.
I’ll even admit that I loved that more than the part when they get together and there are a lot of sexy times there.
I am a huge fan of the story and the build up and while I definitely like some sexyness in my stories, it is the story itself that makes me want to keep reading.
Adding in the Christmas joy and the family feeling of the town of Christmas Falls and you have a winner.
But that wasn’t enough! Beth Bolden decided to throw in a Moretti family gathering and blew that out of the park! So awesome!
I happily enjoyed reading this book and will definitely enjoy more of the Christmas Falls books but like I said the combination of this series, the author writing the book and the main character was a win/win for me.
Throw in that this author is also a queen in epilogue/bonus scenes and there is even more to enjoy.
Have a great time reading!
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