Reviewer's Rating:
5
5.0Overall score
Another great story from Nell Iris.
Red Popcorn Strings and Gumball Rings By Nell Iris
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM, Christmas
Released: December 7, 2019
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Length: 47 pages
Young couple Ellis and Casey’s Christmas is set to be a lean one. Struggling financially, they’re only able to manage the most basic needs for their holiday celebration. They can’t afford luxuries like a turkey. Or decorations. Or presents. Between the recent death of Casey’s beloved momma, and Ellis’ estrangement from his family, all they have is each other.
When Ellis finds the saddest looking Christmas tree south of the Mason-Dixon line thrown outside his workplace and brings it home to Casey, things look up. Because what more do you need to have a Merry Christmas than enthusiasm, ingenuity, and someone to love?
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
Another great story from Nell Iris.
Confession: I’ve had Red Popcorn Strings and Gumball Rings on my e-reader since last Christmas when I bought it from the original publisher. I don’t know why I didn’t read it then. I love Nell Iris’s stories but I have so many unread books on my TBR list that it is overwhelming at times. When I got the request to do a Release Blitz for the re-release of the story, that’s all the push I needed to read it – and I’m so glad I did.
Ellis and Casey are such a sweet couple but Ellis’s family isn’t accepting of their relationship. In spite of that, they’ve made a home and life for themselves together. They may not have much in the way of material things but they have each other and that’s what matters.
Ellis’s boss has a happy surprise for the couple and so does someone else, proving that Christmastime can help even a not-so-nice person be less Grinch-like (read it to find out who). This story is so sweet but don’t let that fool you; there is one super-hot scene that about knocked my socks off! I keep saying that Nell Iris is my queen of MM short stories and this one didn’t change that opinion. 😊 ❤
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O Factor: Spicy
Nell Iris is a romantic at heart who believes everyone deserves a happy ending. She’s a bona fide bookworm (learned to read long before she started school), wouldn’t dream of going anywhere without something to read (not even the ladies’ room), loves music (and singing along but, let’s face it, she’s no Celine Dion), and is a real Star Trek nerd (“Make it so”). She loves words, poetry, wine, and Sudoku, and absolutely adores elephants!
Nell believes passionately in equality for all regardless of race, gender, or sexuality, and wants to make the world a better, less hateful, place.
Nell is a forty-something bisexual Swedish woman, married to the love of her life, and a proud mama of a grown daughter. She left the Scandinavian cold and darkness for warmer and sunnier Malaysia a few years ago, and now spends her days writing, surfing the Internet, enjoying the heat, and eating good food. One day she decided to chase her lifelong dream of being a writer, sat down in front of her laptop, and wrote a story about two men falling in love.
Nell Iris writes gay romance, prefers sweet over angst, and wants to write diverse and different characters.
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