A snarky, sweet Christmas story. :-)
The Christmas Oaks By V.L. Locey
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Holiday, Christmas
Released: December 4, 2019
Publisher: Self-Published
Series: Laurel Holidays, Book 1
Length: 204 pages (print)
Cover Design: Designs By Sloan
Can the magic of Christmas, and the soft voice of a man who has seen too much, show Bryan a future where anything is possible?
Bryan Graham is shocked to find he’s inherited a hunting cabin in north-central Pennsylvania. From his grandfather of all people; a stubborn man who went out of his way to make Bryan’s childhood miserable. He’d vowed never to go back to the small, rural community of Kutter’s Summit, not that he didn’t have fond memories of the place. It’s just that he’d rather be celebrating a quiet Christmas back in Nashville with his cat and his contracts.
A couple of weeks of hunting, cleaning, and handyman work, and he can hopefully put the place up for sale and move on with his life. He never expected to find his childhood friend Parson Greer living in the cabin. Parson is no longer a boy, but a handsome, wary man consumed by the demons of a faraway desert war. When a rekindled friendship shifts into something deeper, Bryan finds himself lost in emotions that a workaholic like him has never made time to experience before.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
A snarky, sweet Christmas story. 🙂
I kind of enjoy books with irreverent characters and V.L. Locey is one of my favorite authors for this kind of story. 😊Bryan Graham is the perfect blend of snarky, irreverent yet sweet, character. He won’t admit that his stressful lifestyle in Nashville isn’t good for him.
Parson Greer has seen things that no one should ever have to see. He can’t cope living in the “normal” world and loves living in the wild in a dilapidated shack out in the wild.
Bryan and Parson were friends in high school and Parson is the only one who stood by Bryan after he came out. When Bryan finds Parson living in the cabin he inherited from his grandfather, he is surprised but also happy to reconnect with his old friend. He never expected that they would become so much more.
I love the snarky attitude and comments that Bryan makes. He has good reason to not want to be back in Pennsylvania but he sucks it up and does what he needs to do. Along the way he and Parsons become more than friends even though he knows that he will have to return to his life and business back in Nashville.
I love the HEA this book has but it wasn’t easy for Bryan and Parson to get there. I don’t know anyone with PTSD and reading about Parson’s troubles was hard, but the reward at the end was worth it. Bryan has just the right amount of irreverence to offset the harder parts of the story.
Another great holiday-themed story for this year’s reading pleasure!
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O Factor: Spicy
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USA Today Bestselling Author V.L. Locey – Penning LGBT hockey romance that skates into sinful pleasures.
V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, Torchwood and Dr. Who, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.) She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a pair of geese, far too many chickens, and two steers.
When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in one hand and a steamy romance novel in the other.
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