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Cuffing Season
We’ve been friends for years.
Years of questioning if the other could possibly feel the same desire .
This Christmas, only one question matters when the attraction between us boils over.
Do I want to be naughty or nice ?
When the holiday's over, there’s no way we can work long-term when we live so far away…
Besides, it’s just a holiday hook up .
But what if I want to spend all of my holidays with him? Author's Note : Cuffing Season is a contemporary romance novella of 27,000 words. It contains on page, steamy scenes, and it's intended for mature audiences.
Years of questioning if the other could possibly feel the same desire .
This Christmas, only one question matters when the attraction between us boils over.
Do I want to be naughty or nice ?
When the holiday's over, there’s no way we can work long-term when we live so far away…
Besides, it’s just a holiday hook up .
But what if I want to spend all of my holidays with him? Author's Note : Cuffing Season is a contemporary romance novella of 27,000 words. It contains on page, steamy scenes, and it's intended for mature audiences.
- GenresNovella
119 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 21, 2023
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August 9, 2024
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Sadly, this was a very easy novella to rate, as I became increasingly unimpressed while reading Cuffing Season, it was only made lighter by having it be a buddy read. I did love Grayson’s personality traits, but I wasn’t too keen on Ava as a character so it being from her POV made it disappointing. Unfortunately, my main gripe with this book was the writing. I found it to be somewhat awkward: a lot of lines and scenes were cringeworthy, one topic became repetitive, and the spice took a very fast nose dive as well after the initial scene between them at her family home, with uncomfortable dialogue and role-play that I needed to skim through, and I found the characters started to frustrate me when it was very clear they both wanted to be together but neither of them was going to admit it first, and then finally a very predictable grand gesture ending. It was honestly such a shame because I could really see the potential for this novella; it touched on some really good topics, and that initial spice was so good! Therefore, I’m rating Cuffing Season Two out of Five stars.
If you are looking for a quick, friends-to-lovers holiday romance with some steam to it, Cuffing Season could be an easy choice. It holds two people who have tiptoed around the other, Ava completely blind to Grayson’s clear intent and Grayson struggling to find a way to impress her for so long, the longing desire to blur the lines between friends and give into a clawing desire knowing it can’t last long, the unravelling explanation of the distance that has separated them from drawing closer before now, and grand gestures times two. Cuffing Season touches on the topics of cheating and selfish lovers (past relationships), has a dyslexia representation, and whether inadvertently or not Luna Whitney briefly drops Ava into subspace.
Sadly, this was a very easy novella to rate, as I became increasingly unimpressed while reading Cuffing Season, it was only made lighter by having it be a buddy read. I did love Grayson’s personality traits, but I wasn’t too keen on Ava as a character so it being from her POV made it disappointing. Unfortunately, my main gripe with this book was the writing. I found it to be somewhat awkward: a lot of lines and scenes were cringeworthy, one topic became repetitive, and the spice took a very fast nose dive as well after the initial scene between them at her family home, with uncomfortable dialogue and role-play that I needed to skim through, and I found the characters started to frustrate me when it was very clear they both wanted to be together but neither of them was going to admit it first, and then finally a very predictable grand gesture ending. It was honestly such a shame because I could really see the potential for this novella; it touched on some really good topics, and that initial spice was so good! Therefore, I’m rating Cuffing Season Two out of Five stars.
If you are looking for a quick, friends-to-lovers holiday romance with some steam to it, Cuffing Season could be an easy choice. It holds two people who have tiptoed around the other, Ava completely blind to Grayson’s clear intent and Grayson struggling to find a way to impress her for so long, the longing desire to blur the lines between friends and give into a clawing desire knowing it can’t last long, the unravelling explanation of the distance that has separated them from drawing closer before now, and grand gestures times two. Cuffing Season touches on the topics of cheating and selfish lovers (past relationships), has a dyslexia representation, and whether inadvertently or not Luna Whitney briefly drops Ava into subspace.
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September 20, 2024DNF
This is…so boring. I can’t get through the first chapter.
This is…so boring. I can’t get through the first chapter.
September 7, 2024
I read Cuffing Season back in July (let’s just ignore that it’s September at time of writing, k thanks) in what turned out to be a small series of Christmas in July books. Anyway, I liked it!
It’s a low stakes cozy holiday friends-to-lovers novella that you can finish in one sitting. It’s heavy in the feels but nothing so dramatic it’ll keep you up at night.
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It’s a low stakes cozy holiday friends-to-lovers novella that you can finish in one sitting. It’s heavy in the feels but nothing so dramatic it’ll keep you up at night.
His hand goes to my throat with a firm grasp, and I force my eyes open. "Grayson," I say.
"Tell me," he says, and his voice is pleading. "Tell me you hate me being with anyone else half as much as I hate when you have someone else. Tell me it drives you crazy to know it’s not you I’m coming home to. Tell me it hurts you even a little that it’s not me you wake up to, that it’s not me whose hands have memorized the feel of your body, whose lips have scorched every inch of your skin. Tell me that I’m not alone in this. Or tell me that I am, and we’ll never talk about this gain. I can’t hold this back any longer, Ava. Tell me something. Tell me anything. Just set me free from not knowing."
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