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Ash_Reads_Romance
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Bi 🇨🇦! 📖 I read and review Romances! MM and MF are my focus, but I love everything queer, inclusive and historical!
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There’s insane cuteness with Sky’s family and the holidays and so many cute series cameos. There’s some really great moments between uncle and nephew and the epilogue is beyond adorable. 🥰

It’s a sweet read with some hot tentacle sp1ce for Christmas! 🎄

4 stars
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December 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
That’s when Reed realizes he really wants to date adorable lil Skyler who also turns out to be the thirstiest lil power b0tt0m that has EVER rocked his tentacles. 🦑
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
and when Aisen’s parents turn up out of the blue to take him back to the circus, Skyler is a comforting presence to support him.
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It’s lust at first sight when they meet. Totally adorable coffee dates. Then friends (even though Skyler never stops hitting on Reed, can’t blame him… Reed is SMOKING HOT) 🥵
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It’s so they can learn to manage their shifter forms and that’s where he meets the super cute Maritime Monster aquarium director Skyler who is also an adorable tentacle lover 🥵👌🏻😏
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It’s only when puberty hits and Aisen gets his new monster forms that Reed recognizes that he’s failed him in the socializing aspect, and he needs to bring him to what boils down to a “Monster Camp” for teens
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Reed is the responsible one, tough, but fair and an administrator for the local hospital. Always hell bent on work to give his nephew the best.
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It opens with kraken shifter Reed who is actually an uncle (and very legal guardian) to his kraken shifter nephew. We quickly find out that he’s been the primary parent to his nephew, Aisen, since his merman brother & Sis in law quite literally abandoned their child to focus on their sea circus.
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I find CD writes adorable characters, and honestly the stories I’ve read have been very diverse and low angst which I love! CD is also very creative, and I find there’s such a surprise factor to his stories, so many of the tropes feel fresh through his eyes. (HE WROTE AN ELECTRIC EEL SHIFTER)
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It’s sweet and seggsy and soooooo perfect for the season and a perfect treat for your ears.

5 stars
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November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Their courtship is all “finding the magic of the season” and “warming his Grinchy” heart while Griff wants Logan to find a true home and a true family, wanting desperately to get him to stay in Christmas Falls where he belongs.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
There’s 🔥 chemistry between them as Logan invades his house, forced to stay in his spare room, and tagging along. It doesn’t take long to figure out that he’s very much a “fake” boyfriend and that they’re totally into each other even though no one has ever been positive about Griff that way.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Griff is the hot grumpy always been bi divorced dad who organizes the town Christmas Festival but simultaneously hates it and is known as the town grinch. But things change when his sister comes home for thanksgiving with her new “boyfriend” Logan and foists him on Griff in a mostly innocent way.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Okay so if you’ve never actually read the Christmas Falls books that started it all, let me get you on the hype wagon.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Darcy Stark as Christmas Falls Legend Griff “Grinch” Calloway is something I didn’t know I needed in my life to survive. WOW WOW WOW. Hot hot hot. 🥵 I could de-read all of Griff’s chapters just to hear Darcy’s warm, deep voice as Griff over and over again. Oh my gosh. So niiiiiice.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I’ve read and reviewed this book in print, and I thought it was smoking hot, but I’ve always wanted to read it in audio. Grabbed it on sale and immediately regretted not getting it sooner cause OH MY GOD! the audio just BLEW MY MIND!
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Loads of quality cameo’s from previous books, and the only crime I can see is that this is a standalone when you KNOW damn well that at least ONE side chatacter is perfect and deserves a book.

5 perfect stars
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November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Yes, yes it is and the courtship is SO SO hot and cute and ridiculous and seggsy. Has more wall-seggs than you can shake a stick at.
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
To add to the punny shenanigans, RM made Lukas PINE 🌲 a PLANT DÂDDY. honestly. IS THIS BOOK EVEN REAL???
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Yes dear reader, they shouldn’t but they totally *did*.

And it’s hot, and funny 😆 and the seggsiest forbidden work romance you could think of.
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Post- 🥜 he applies to be the team mascot for the local AHL hockey team. Cause he needs💰 and performing is performing! And he can’t think about this dude!

Except wouldnt this be a forbidden 🚫 work romance if they continued?
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Then. They kinda do? And he finds out his dude is the captain of the local hockey team. And as Paris Hilton would say, “That’s hot.” And then he’s doing SP1cy yoga for his hookup.
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
So then he’s teaching him how to do a handstand. Then he’s doing a SP1CY 🌶️ handstand in a motel! His hookup is great, hot! 🥵 kinda wishes he could do it again!
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM