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Merry Christmas, Mr. Miggles
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bookshelves: less-than-200, tortured-souls, read-in-2016, kindle, m-m, usa, arc, english, 2000s, age-gap, bmbr, homo-contemporary, i-love-you-in-silence
Dec 23, 2016
bookshelves: less-than-200, tortured-souls, read-in-2016, kindle, m-m, usa, arc, english, 2000s, age-gap, bmbr, homo-contemporary, i-love-you-in-silence
A Christmassy story!
It was a decent light book, if only a lacking one. It’s well written, and the moral is positive and warm. The characters are nice, the plot is nice, the development is nice.
Super nice.
Mr. Miggles is such a good person. Toby is also the best. Everybody in town is good and the bad guys are easy to find. Very black-and-white. If you are looking for a trouble-free love story, this is the one for you.
Unfortunately, it didn’t fill me with the myriad of emotions I was expecting.
Something was missing for me here. More passion, more love. More feelings coming out of this.
It’s very decaf, very dull. Very flat.
My reasons:
1. Toby already has a boyfriend. And surprise, suprise, he’s an asshole. So fitting.
2. The plot focuses too much on the major obstacle: a legal one.
3. That means there is not much to see in terms of romance. A few sex scenes, a few “I’ve always been in love with you”, a short epilogue to say, “Yes, it worked out in the end, so no worries”.
4. It’s extremely sappy. Both characters, yes, but more importantly, the people surrounding them. I mean, I know Christmas is a sappy time in general, but there is so much sugar I can take. And here, damn, here I OD’d.
So I’m sad to say this time Eli Easton wasn’t a win. Not bad. Just average. There were times when I had to do a conscious effort in order to pay attention to the story. It didn’t call me.
Not my cuppa.
*****
Group review!
***Copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.***
It was a decent light book, if only a lacking one. It’s well written, and the moral is positive and warm. The characters are nice, the plot is nice, the development is nice.
Super nice.
Mr. Miggles is such a good person. Toby is also the best. Everybody in town is good and the bad guys are easy to find. Very black-and-white. If you are looking for a trouble-free love story, this is the one for you.
Unfortunately, it didn’t fill me with the myriad of emotions I was expecting.
Something was missing for me here. More passion, more love. More feelings coming out of this.
It’s very decaf, very dull. Very flat.
My reasons:
1. Toby already has a boyfriend. And surprise, suprise, he’s an asshole. So fitting.
2. The plot focuses too much on the major obstacle: a legal one.
3. That means there is not much to see in terms of romance. A few sex scenes, a few “I’ve always been in love with you”, a short epilogue to say, “Yes, it worked out in the end, so no worries”.
4. It’s extremely sappy. Both characters, yes, but more importantly, the people surrounding them. I mean, I know Christmas is a sappy time in general, but there is so much sugar I can take. And here, damn, here I OD’d.
So I’m sad to say this time Eli Easton wasn’t a win. Not bad. Just average. There were times when I had to do a conscious effort in order to pay attention to the story. It didn’t call me.
Not my cuppa.
*****
Group review!
***Copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.***
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Reading Progress
November 27, 2016
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December 16, 2016
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Started Reading
December 23, 2016
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Finished Reading