I had been planning on saving the next three books for November, both because they're Christmas themed and also because I knew they'd be fairly light and easy reads and I figured I'd need those a week before the election. But then my weekend ended up being more stressful than I had anticipated, and I needed some Christmas in July to take my mind off real life.
What I've come to think of as the Christmas Bears Trilogy starts with a blizzard that results in a lost traveler from out of town staying in a cabin with strangers and discovering love. Frankie is a stylist from the Twin Cities who ends up stranded in a small town near the Canadian border. He first sees three burly loggers in a town diner and assumes they're all prejudiced rednecks who would never accept a swishy guy like him, no matter how much they look like a lot of gay men's fantasies. But when he finds shelter in their well-stocked cabin outside of town after he drives off the road to avoid hitting a moose, he discovers that Marcus, Arthur and Paul are exactly that fantasy.
Arthur and Paul are in a tempestuous fuck buddy relationship, but Marcus is single after discovering that his boyfriend of three years had been cheating on him. He returned home to Logan, the small town where all three of them grew up, to lick his wounds and spend time with his mother, whose health is declining. Marcus is gruff with Frankie, but shockingly it's not because he dislikes him, it's because he reminds him of his ex!
This book has one too many moments of people doing dumb things because they're afraid of love, and in general people often behaved in certain ways seemingly only because the plot required them to so, but I did really like Marcus and Frankie together, and it was definitely the kind of book I needed to read this weekend.
Grade: B
What I've come to think of as the Christmas Bears Trilogy starts with a blizzard that results in a lost traveler from out of town staying in a cabin with strangers and discovering love. Frankie is a stylist from the Twin Cities who ends up stranded in a small town near the Canadian border. He first sees three burly loggers in a town diner and assumes they're all prejudiced rednecks who would never accept a swishy guy like him, no matter how much they look like a lot of gay men's fantasies. But when he finds shelter in their well-stocked cabin outside of town after he drives off the road to avoid hitting a moose, he discovers that Marcus, Arthur and Paul are exactly that fantasy.
Arthur and Paul are in a tempestuous fuck buddy relationship, but Marcus is single after discovering that his boyfriend of three years had been cheating on him. He returned home to Logan, the small town where all three of them grew up, to lick his wounds and spend time with his mother, whose health is declining. Marcus is gruff with Frankie, but shockingly it's not because he dislikes him, it's because he reminds him of his ex!
This book has one too many moments of people doing dumb things because they're afraid of love, and in general people often behaved in certain ways seemingly only because the plot required them to so, but I did really like Marcus and Frankie together, and it was definitely the kind of book I needed to read this weekend.
Grade: B
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