starting The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/3e5448c9-562a-4cca-adf0-0ad4ff2ad26d
lexi aka newlynova talked about this book in her latest video and its the right time of year for this book *and* its the kind of silly fun thing I wanna read right now
the love interest's name is Hex Hallow and he is the prince of Halloween
this book is *so* silly lmao
this book takes its bizarro fantasy world seriously but nothing in this book is serious at the same time, lexi was right lmao
its rare that a fiction author uses a word I don't know the meaning of or haven't seen before
this author just did
"It curls over my tongue, a diaphanous cloud, and even this subtle there-then-gone sizzle of his taste makes my eyelashes flutter."
"diaphanous"
the book mentions Michael Bublé's cover of All I Want For Christmas is You and y'know what I think I have a new favourite cover of that Christmas classic
José Feliciano's Feliz Navidad is still my most favourite Christmas track
finished this book this morning and I think the more romance novels I read the more I start to understand what I like in them but also what I don't like in them
namely: I don't like to read smut, I really don't. It doesn't do anything for me and I just kind of find it annoying.
@packetcat i’ve read smut that i enjoyed, but never in a traditionally published book. i don’t think editors at traditional publishers really know what to do with it, and so they either leave it alone or give bad advice. that, or they are just targeting an audience which is very much Not Me
