Fabulous fluff

Loved this. It was the exact ray of sunshine I was looking for. I went in wondering how our hero would have a crush on his sister's boyfriend without that meaning that the sister's boyfriend was a total jerk. Good news! He's not a jerk. They are sweet together and the family is terrifically nutty. Absolute delight!

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Awesome

Great book, kept my attention all the way to the end, amazing audio delivery, loved it. Will be reading again, every chapter was received amazingly do recommend you give it a read.

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Cute and perfect

This audiobook is cute and the perfect shirt listen for the busy holidays. Santa dies it again!

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Very Entertaining

I loved this story. Great characters and twists. Reader kept my attention to the book's end. Highly recommended.

Quick Funny Read

I enjoyed this book. Great performances by the readers. The Holidays can be challenging and this story is like a LGBTQ holiday Hallmark movie.

Fast and Fun

There's no big mystery here its a sweet hallmark kind of christmas story. predictable and fun just go with it. Narration is done well.

Miles and Aiden

A sweet, cute, and fast paced romance story. I enjoyed listening to it. Narration was great!

Thanks Santa

Really cute story. A short and sweet HEA with a few good laughs. two new to me narrators Wesley Paul and Perry Bishop did a good job with the voices of the characters. I will look for them again. Well worth the credit and your time to listen.

Worth the listen but so much lost potential

I walked into this story expecting a generic love story between two men. However, I got a lot more.

Let me be clear. I didn't pick this audio book because I thought it would be awful, but because I hoped it be better than a generic Hallmark movie at Christmas time.

Cons about this book: There are a couple tense shifts throughout. You have to really pay attention to miss them. The tense is past but sometimes becomes present.

The love interest, Aiden or Sean, is very bland and basically a cardboard cutout of every hunky man you've seen on t.v. or the movies. The only thing we know about him is his job and we get a small bit of back story about his family not accepting him for being gay. That's all. I'm sorry the cat the family acknowledges is grumpy and hates people, likes him. Sadly the cat never comes back into the story, so I'm not really sure what real purpose it served other than to shove down our throats that Aiden is a good guy.

There should have been a few more chapters so this story would feel complete. We have an intense scene of revelation between Aiden and the sister that she has hired him to be her boyfriend to appease her parents. Right before that, Miles and Aiden talk and kiss but for obvious reasons, Miles is upset with Aiden and storms off. They completely cut to the next day and Miles just mentions his sister explaining everything in passing. There are a lot of instances like this in the story. I don't know if it was self published or taken on by a major publisher, but there are missing parts of the story I would have preferred to have shown to me than told.

Lastly, I can tell this story was written by women and not by gay men. That isn't anything personal. My point is this. This story was written by women who have certain ideas about how gay men function and how they fall in love. This was not a bad representation of gay men, but could have been more realistic.

Pros: Miles is funny, charming and witty. He is a compelling main character in every way you could imagine. The story should have been told strictly in his POV. Again, I don't know who had the final say in the matter and I also understand a lot of books take multiple POV's but Miles could have saved the book if it was just his POV we saw.

The ending is heartwarming. I'm glad that the characters get their happily ever after. It does feel a bit forced for the sake of the story, but still good nonetheless.

They don't use the fact Miles is gay as a plot line. Too many times I see where the delimma is the character is gay and hasn't come out to their family yet. That works for some story lines but this one it wouldn't have so I'm glad the authors didn't take that route.

Overall, nothing truly memorable or fantastic, but still worth a listen if you love a cliche love story between two men. It is better than a Hallmark movie for sure.

Is Santa Real?

Miles doesn't think so...his BFF Holly talks him into a photo with her on mall Santa's lap, Santa asks what he wants for Christmas and Holly quickly jumps in telling Santa a boyfriend. Miles denies needing anything but Santa says he'll just have to see what he can do aout finding that someone Miles can spend Christmases with. As Miles walks away, he turns back to see Santa with twin girls on his lap staring at Miles with a twinkle in his eyes and thinks to himself he doesn't believe in Santa Claus but if Santa can deliver the dark haired stranger he bumped into in the mall, he will eat his words about Santa not being real!!

A fun light and entertaining book to listen to or read, going home with Miles and meet his Crazy family, the family's people-hating cat and his sister's new boyfriend !!!