Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Celebrating the Season
SERIES: Forestville Silver Foxes Novella
AUTHOR: Nora Phoenix
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 2759 KB
RELEASE DATE: December 6, 2024
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It’s weird to have a crush on Santa, right?
The whole red suit and beard should’ve been a turn-off, not to mention the reindeer and sleigh. Oh, and his age. The guy’s easily twenty years older than me.
But when I spot the super sexy Santa someone hired for my dad’s bachelor party—don’t ask—I want to sit on his lap and tell him all I want for Christmas is him.
The good news is that Santa—whose real name is Ellery—is into men and, more specifically, me. And he’s not opposed to me sitting on his lap at all. Or taking a ride on…I mean with him. We’re having our own wonderful Christmas time.
With the snow falling and the chestnuts roasting, I’m realizing I want to be with Ellery even after the holiday season ends. But does what we have stand a chance outside the magic of Christmas?
Celebrating the Season is a standalone Christmas novella set in the Forestville Silver Foxes world.
REVIEW:
I love that Nora Phoenix has a whole series of books and novellas about gorgeous and sexy Silver Foxes. They are truly my jam!
Boaz has always had a hard time adulting and living as others expect. His ADHD is always too much and it soon turns men off. Yes, he’s good for a quick roll in the hay but his nervous energy and constant chatter are just annoying and a fast buzz kill. That is until he meets the sexy Silver Fox Santa at his dad’s bachelor party. Ellery has settled down in a cozy cabin in the woods of Forestville, Washington. After a life in the Army as a paratrooper and then a stint as a smokejumper he was ready to retire and pursue his love of woodcarving. The energetic young man he meets while playing Santa for a Bachelor Party calls to his dominate nature and what looked like a night of fun has now become spending Christmas together in his snowed-in mountain cabin. But what happens when the snow melts and the men need to part ways and go back to reality?
Nora really called to me with this book. Poor Boaz struggled so much with his disabling ADHD and how it affected his relationships with others. And how those challenges have caused him to doubt any man would ever desire a relationship with him. But Ellery wasn’t just any man and Boaz’s energy and constant chatter was a balm to his too quiet life. But his self-questioning that he was too old for Boaz almost destroyed exactly what they both needed…each other!
I loved that it was just, for the most part, these two men who were perfect puzzle pieces that fit together and the peace and solitude of Ellery’s mountain oasis. They got to feel out what the other needed but needed to learn to trust their internal desires and how the other fulfilled them.
I am really enjoying this wonderful series and can’t wait for more to come.
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