The Book:
A Jingle Bell Mingle by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone (Christmas Notch #3)
Published: September 24, 2024 by Avon
Date read: September 3, 2024
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The Characters:
Isaac and Sunny
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The Christmas Notch Series
A Merry Little Meet Cute
A Holly Jolly Ever After
A Jingle Bell Mingle
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Check out my holiday book master list, or my lists of 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 holiday book releases.
The Plot (from Goodreads):
What happens when there’s no room at the inn and you and your potentially demonic cat become roommates with your grumpy one-night stand?
Part-time adult film actress/one-time adult film director/makeup artist Sunny Palmer has accidentally sold her very first screenplay to the Hope Channel. That was six months ago. Fast forward to a looming deadline, an uninspired Sunny has returned to the source of her inspiration in Christmas Notch, Vermont, to immerse herself in the local Christmas miracle on which her fever dream of a movie pitch was based.
Isaac Kelly, former boy band heartthrob and the saddest boy in the music biz, is the latest owner of the town’s historic mansion. After his years of heartbreak following his young wife’s death, Isaac’s record label is done waiting for new music. What better place to attempt his first holiday album than a snow-covered mansion where he can become a hermit in peace?
But after their best friends’ wedding leads to them waking up together in a freezing motel room with questionable wiring and a broken shower, Isaac takes a chance and asks Sunny to stay with him at his home. Surely the place is big enough that he’ll hardly see her or her unhinged cat. But when the two discover they’re both creatively blocked, they make a handshake deal: Isaac will help Sunny hunt down the truth behind the local lore, and Sunny will find Isaac a new muse.
And with these two opposites under one roof, there’s no way this jingle bell mingle could go off script…right?
My Review:
Thank you to @netgalley and Avon for this gifted copy.
I love Christmas Notch and never want to leave. I was so excited to read Sunny’s story, and Teddy and Steph’s HEA was the icing on the cake! You won’t want to miss this series finale.
I love the roommance trope, and with Julie and Sierra you know it’s going to be a steamy one. Both Isaac and Sunny are working through grief and are creatively blocked, but it’s no surprise when they decide to hook up to “get it out of their system”.
Overall, it doesn’t matter what I say about this book because anyone who has read the Christmas Notch books is already in love with Julie and Sierra as a writing duo and is going to have this on their TBR. You won’t be disappointed!
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