The Nightmare Before Kissmas Review

By Sara Raasch

Royals and Romance Book 1

Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Audio rating: 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧

Pub date: 10/8/2024

Blurb

 Nicholas “Coal” Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR façade. Coal will do anything to escape the spectacle, including getting tangled in a drunken, supremely hot make- out session with a beautiful man behind a seedy bar one night.

But the heir to Christmas is soon commanded to do his duty: he will marry his best friend, Iris, the Easter Princess and his brother’s not-so-secret crush. A situation that has disaster written all over it.

Things go from bad to worse when a rival arrives to challenge Coal for the princess’s hand…and Coal comes face-to-face with his mysterious behind-the-bar hottie: Hex, the Prince of Halloween.

It’s a fake competition between two holiday princes who can’t keep their hands off each other over a marriage of convenience that no one wants. And it all leads to one of the sweetest, sexiest, messiest, most delightfully unforgettable love stories of the year.

Category: Paranormal Holiday Romance

 

Read if you Like:

🎃 Royal romance

🎄MM romance

🎃 Paranormal politics

🎄Forbidden romance

My Thoughts:

I absolutely adored everything about this book! It is original, beautifully written, and will have you cracking up! I loved the banter between the two male leads but also with Coal and his friends. This is also the perfect book for when you want a holiday romance but aren't quite done with spooky season yet!

I really loved watching Coal try to create a better future for his holiday while also falling completely head over heels for the most inconvenient person. While this book is a really great romance I was also impressed by some of the insights into holidays it made. I loved the idea that Halloween is special because it brings joy from things that would usually be scary and I thought there were some interesting insights into Christmas as well.

I am completely hooked on this series and can't wait for the sequel! If you like amazing banter, a creative paranormal twist, an MM romance or have a pulse I recommend running to your nearest bookstore to grab this one immediately! I honestly don't think my review does this one justice but it made me incredibly happy and I couldn't put it down.

I listened to the audiobook of this title and loved it! Ellis Evans did the narration, and it is great. It is single narrator but also single POV. I think unless you only enjoy duet narration you'll enjoy this audio.

Thanks to Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC. All opinions are my own.