Falon Ballard | All I Want Is You

The Book: 

All I Want Is You by Jenny Bayliss
Published: September 24, 2024 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Date read: October 23, 2024

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Characters: 

Jess and Nick

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The Plot (from Goodreads):

Jessica Carrington always wanted her own happily ever after. But, until that happens, she spends her days as a small-time romance writer, penning satisfying Happily Ever Afters to soothe the heartache left by her ex-boyfriend Nick Matthews, a fellow romance writer and now her biggest rival, who has found success writing love stories without happy endings. It’s clearly what he’s good at, after all . . .

So, when their professional obligations find them snowed in – and forced to share a room! – at the same remote inn a few days before Christmas, Jess and Nick are both fuming. But what’s more fitting for two romantic writers in a slump? And when they realise the friction between them might be the only cure for their writer’s block, they decide to turn their frustration into fiction . . . and the pages start flying.

Jess can’t shake the feeling that Nick is the last guy on earth she should be falling for (again), but, as they both finally get back in their flow, is he actually all she wants for Christmas?

My Review:

Falon Ballard is one of my favorite romance authors, so you can guess how excited I was to see she wrote a Christmas novel!!

ALL I WANT IS YOU is short and sweet. It’s a second-chance romance between two rival romance authors who get snowed in at a book conference just days before Christmas. They begin using the tension as fuel for their creative writing juices, and it’s basically all the fun tropes you could ask for! It’s a really fun read, exactly what I want for the holiday season.

I loved how the “second chance” of their relationship was handled. Both characters (dual POV) reflect on their past relationship and what they each could have done better, so there was a lot of character growth in these short 250 pages.

The epilogue is the cutest thing ever!

I’m certainly hoping Ballard writes more holiday novels in the future.

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