#LGBTGIA fantasy holiday romance

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Review: Cthulhu for Christmas: A Winter Holiday MM Tentacle Romance by Megan Maslow

Rating: 4.75🌈 I’m such a sucker immediately for anything that Maslow writes, especially when she’s putting the story smack dab near me. Maryland, specifically, around the Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore close by. Places I know and love. Plus the added factor of a Christmas collection! I’ve been reading a lot of those lately, many set up in Vermont (I get it, gorgeous and Hallmark) or the pacific…

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Review: Eldon (Christmas Sprites #3) by Macy Blake

Review: Eldon (Christmas Sprites #3) by Macy Blake

Rating: 4.5 🌈 Oh those fabulous Christmas sprites! Eldon, the serious one, gets his mate, in a story that runs almost concurrently with all the others. So we get mentions of events we know happened in the other Sprites romances. Here in a not really “frenemies to lovers “ trope, it’s Tatum William Bixby III , new owner of the Snowda Shoppe, that has Eldon in a snit. Tate won’t tell Eldon his…

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Review: It’s a Tenta-ful Life : A Winter Holiday MM Tentacle Romance by Amanda Muewissen

Rating: 4🌈 My holiday reading has slowed somewhat but I’m still enjoying the Tentacle holiday series novels from last year. Amanda Muewissen’s stories have always been so interesting to read. It’s the author’s approach to various popular themes , a Christmas story that carries a strong fondness for a darker fictional component rather than the sleigh bells and holly one normally is used to. In…

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Review: Twelve Days of Squidmas: A Winter Holiday MM Tentacle Romance by K.L. Hiers

Rating: 4🌈 There’s so many great things to like about K.L. Hiers’ Twelve Days of Squidmas, one of the Winter Tentacle Holiday collection. It’s got a truly poignant storyline about loss and the damage that years of family abuse does to a person. It talks about someone who’s watched and been a caregiver for someone dying of cancer. Then the reader is there, as the funeral is over, the…

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Review: A Sucker for Christmas: A Winter Holiday MM Tentacle Romance by J P Sayle

Rating: 3.5🌈 J P Sayle’s A Sucker for Christmas is a fun, sweet addition to the Winter Holiday Tentacle collection. A best friends to lovers story with an added twist of one of them being an octopus shifter, there’s not a lot a universe building or exploration of the octopus shifter culture here. It’s a soulmate relationship, where the shifter recognizes his mate early on in life, in this case,…

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Review: Uriel: Yule Lads Book Two by Macy Blake

Rating: 5🌈 Frosted Gingersnaps! Macy Blake outdid herself! Uriel: Yule Lads Book Two by Macy Blake is fabulous, just another fabulous fantasy Christmas read. I loved last year’s Sprites finding their mates and reclaiming their magic in Mistletoe Falls but Macy Blake is being extra spicy with her Yule Lads! The Yule Lads are that tiny bit of naughty to balance out the outstanding “nice” of the…

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Review: York: Yule Lads Book One by Macy Blake

Rating: 5🌈 “Frosted snickerdoodle antlers!” And it’s back to Mistletoe Falls after last year’s terrific Christmas Sprites Series, but this time it’s the Sprites counterparts, the Yule Lads getting back their magic and mates. York, the first Yule Lad we meet, is Christmas Falls mechanic. A mixture of grumbly mischief with a deep love for his cousins, and an appreciation for the weirdness of his…

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Review: Kissed by the Krampus:(Monsters in my Bed Book 1) by L Eveland

Rating: 4.5🌈 Eveland is a new author for me so I did what I always do with new authors I enjoy. Read everything they’ve written. And I’m so happy that I did because I discovered Eveland’s Monsters in my Bed series. A paranormal fantasy Monster series, it starts at its heart, a group of young soldiers, on duty on Christmas Eve in Afghanistan, heading from from base camp to another when their…

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Review: Linus (Christmas Sprites #4) by Macy Blake

Review: Linus (Christmas Sprites #4) by Macy Blake

Rating: 4.5 🌈 Linus finishes out Blakes’ heartwarming Christmas Sprites series and it’s a magical end I’d hoped for. Linus, the last of the Christmas sprite cousins to find a mate, has always thought he’d be the first one to find the perfect one to love and spend the rest of his life with. Instead, the fumbling, large-hearted innkeeper has stood by and watched, a tad jealously, as the other…

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Review: Naughty Neil ( A Hidden Species Novella) by Louisa Masters

Review: Naughty Neil ( A Hidden Species Novella) by Louisa Masters

Rating: 4🌈🌲 Naughty Neil is a short holiday story that takes place in Masters’ Hidden Species universe. Neil is a young guy working as an exotic dancer, happy with his life until a guy knocks on his door, claiming to be some kind of government agent, only from a agency he’s never heard of. Mark Mikakos, Hellhound and CBG investigator ( Community of Species Government ) has come to tell Neil…

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Review: Nyall (Christmas Sprites Book 1) by Macy Blake

Review: Nyall (Christmas Sprites Book 1) by Macy Blake

Rating: 4🌈 Nyall is a sweet holiday romance, an adorable beginning to a new Christmas series about a holiday village, Mistletoe Falls, and a special magical family of sprites looking for their HEA’s. First up is the village baker, Nyall, who meets reporter Aaron Newton, banished to the village to write holiday fluff by his father for a past byline mistake. It becomes a delightful romance as…

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Review: The Solstice Cabin (Flos Magicae) by Arden Powell

Review: The Solstice Cabin (Flos Magicae) by Arden Powell

Rating: 4🌈 Arden Powell has been writing such an amazing selection of books for the Flos Magicae series. All have been crafted with a certain subtlety, the world building and any foundation information is such that the reader has to cobble together the hints scattered throughout the book or from the odd statements in dialogue to try to understand the societal framework the novels take place…

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Review: A Holiday to Sustain Us (The Magi Accounts Companion Novellas) by Michele Notaro

Review: A Holiday to Sustain Us (The Magi Accounts Companion Novellas) by Michele Notaro

Rating: 4.5🌈 If you’re not familiar with The Magi Accounts series, this isn’t the book for you. A reader has to have read all the preceding books, in the order that they were written, in order to understand the people and relationships talked about here. But if you have, then you are in for a heartwarming read, rare for this series and universe. It starts off as a series of interludes, some of…

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Review: A Very Armitage Christmas (Mismatched Mates #2.5) by Eliot Grayson

Review: A Very Armitage Christmas (Mismatched Mates #2.5) by Eliot Grayson

Rating: 4🌈 A Very Armitage Christmas is a short holiday story featuring the two mated couples from The Alpha’s Warlock and Captive Mate #2. Both characters are still trying to settle into their relationships , new duties within the pack, and recover from past events. Plus here come the holidays. The story is equal parts horror, humor, and romance with all four men working to make each other…

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Review: Cosy & Chill by Jackie Keswick

Review: Cosy & Chill by Jackie Keswick

Rating: 5🌈⛄️ Cosy & Chill by Jackie Keswick really conveys so much of what I really think is authentic when it comes to the holidays. It’s never just that glitteringly happy, fun filled holiday. full of congenial family gatherings and mountains of gifts. No, there’s also the elements of melancholy, feelings of bitterness, loneliness, exclusion, family dysfunction, and outright pain and…