Late last night and early this morning, I was in desperate need of fictional distraction from the all-too-real world. So I decided to read a romance about an adorable university student on a ski vacation who gets snowed in over Christmas with an intriguing ski bum in a cabin with a fireplace and mulled wine and sex coupons. I make excellent life choices.
This novella definitely scratched the itch I had, and fulfilled my need for distraction by delivering exactly what you would expect from that synopsis. It wasn't the best written version of that story that I've ever read, and there could have been more depth to the attraction between the couple. I also found it really jarring when they had unprotected sex without even a cursory nod to the standard "I've been tested and I'm safe" handwave; it felt both unrealistic and also worrying. But on the whole it did its job.
Grade: B
This novella definitely scratched the itch I had, and fulfilled my need for distraction by delivering exactly what you would expect from that synopsis. It wasn't the best written version of that story that I've ever read, and there could have been more depth to the attraction between the couple. I also found it really jarring when they had unprotected sex without even a cursory nod to the standard "I've been tested and I'm safe" handwave; it felt both unrealistic and also worrying. But on the whole it did its job.
Grade: B
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