Beastly and Bookish

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Beastly & Bookish is one of the three books in the Horned Up for the Holidays series. You can find the other reviews Holidays Ablaze and Holly’s Unjolly Christmas here. It does not matter in the order that you read them, none of them spoil any parts of the stories for the other.

This book has a Beauty and the Beast feel. “Ugly” beastly demon and nerdy, fiery, librarian. They were best friends when they were younger, and then Rom’s family moved away for a business venture. Eventually it brings him back to Winter Bliss. It is a second chance romance for Rom and Noelle. It includes tropes such as forced proximity and one bed. It is a paranormal, Christmas, fantasy romance.

The story was good, it took me a little longer to get through than the other two books. I liked the story fine, and I found myself smiling and feeling genuinely happy for the characters, but something in the book just didn’t connect with me. I still gave it high stars because I want to point out that sometimes I have outside influences that affect my mood when reading, and I feel like this kind of happened here. Their story is really cute, and extremely spicey. My one real irk with it, and I only say this because I point it out every time it happens, is the lack of communication is so frustrating, but I know if they did communicate how they felt, I would probably find it boring. LOL. So just ignore me please. I don’t read a lot of second chance romances, but this one is a spicy hallmark second chance romance you should add to your list.