Look, sometimes you just need to read a Christmas m/m romance novel right after Easter.
This one was...fine? The set up was great: a cute guy named Gideon who's obsessed with decorating for Christmas (but is secretly sad!) and a gruff guy named Paul who doesn't have time or space in his heart for such things but then needs to convince his younger brother that he's okay when he comes to visit for Christmas, and what better way to do that than with tons of Christmas lights! It's full of Christmas planning and discussions of traditions and all of that, and the two leads have decent chemistry, but there's not nearly enough actual conflict in their romance or in the overall story to sustain a full-length novel, so by the end I was bored. Would be a great 20K fic, but it doesn't hold up to a 250+ page book.
Grade: C
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