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It's Josh Lanyon's with love :). There is no mystery in here, just plain contemporary holiday romance between a book hunter and a British professor -- and a lost manuscript of Dickens. It's a lovely story, it puts smile on my face. Because even if it's a novella, it's well written, with good insight of both characters. It's Christmas ... faith and love to all man kind, right? ^_^
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This holiday novella is a total and complete delight, a tender romance with also a tense little mystery underneath. Lanyon here tells the story of James, an antique book hunter who is on a mission to gauge the validity of a newly discovered novel by Charles Dickens. The owner of the book is a professor from England, strikingly handsome but unfortunately cold and aloof, and he seems to take a fast dislike to James. All seems lost on this mission, and James is settling into the gloomy thoughts of
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Audiobook. Wonderful narration.
I fancied reading this to start to get me in the festive spirit and it did the trick, as it is a cute romance set around Christmas time featuring a lost Dickens Christmas tale.
4.5 stars because despite my hopeless romantic side and the great couple James and Sedge made, I have trouble believing people can fall in love in two days. Lust, most certainly, but not love.
4.5 stars because despite my hopeless romantic side and the great couple James and Sedge made, I have trouble believing people can fall in love in two days. Lust, most certainly, but not love.
I seem to be a sucker for main characters who are pariahs! Josh Lanyon has this knack of bringing these forlorn characters to life and making them so relatable that you can't help but cheer for them.
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Pretty much loved it. It's funny, sweet, a little sniffly in places with a great ending. I love Lanyon's work anyway and getting a Christmas story from him was wonderful.
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Really nice m/m Christmas story, with Dickens.
Aug 17, 2011
Beth
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it was amazing
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Suzanne (Doppleganger)
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