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Under the Mistletoe with You by Lizzie Huxley-Jones - Review

Monday, January 13, 2025


I read Make You Mine This Christmas a couple of years ago and really liked it, so I was thrilled to hear that Lizzie was writing a follow up novel starring Christopher, Haf's pretend boyfriend and Kit's sister from the first novel. I requested it on Netgalley and was thrilled to get it. I was provided with an electronic copy of this book for review purposes but was not otherwise compensated for this post. All thoughts and opinions are my own. 

I saved this for just before Christmas, again, and I loved it. It was just so fun and joyful and although I'm not much of a rom com fan I just love them at Christmas because they give me a nice warm feeling. This just felt so festive. 

So, at the end of the first book, Christopher decided he wanted to open a bakery and that is where we find him at the beginning of this book. He's moved to north Wales and has a bakery cum cafe. He has one employee, young Tegan. He has a couple of friends but he hasn't really settled into the community much. He seems to be living a bit of a lonely life. He has been obsessed with Netflix start Nash Nadeau who stars in rom com films. He is still close to his sister and Haf, and Lauren and Ambrose; they have a properly hilarious group chat. Christopher is supposed to be heading off to York to spend Christmas with Haf and Kit, I think, and he has let out his flat above the bakery to someone on like Airbnb. It's all set. 

However, the weather then sets in, and Christopher is snowed in and can't get out of Wales. As he's trying to get out, his tenant arrives. Except, it's not the woman he was expecting, but it's... Nash Nadeau. In the flesh. In the quite irritating princely flesh. 

Christopher pretends he doesn't know who Nash is. He realises they need to share the flat as he is stuck for Christmas. He generously gives Nash his bed and then the next day the two of them end up getting involved in helping people in the community by preparing food and such like. They bicker endlessly but there obviously are sparks between them. I loved how hot this book was too - the sexi s great. 

Nash is a trans man and I really liked the discussion he and Christopher had about sex and what they would each want and need from it. He also has a disability and I really loved how this was portrayed too. I liked how Christopher got to know himself a bit more, too. I'm giving this five out of five because it was just the cutest festive read!

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