{"id":19448,"date":"2017-11-28T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=19448"},"modified":"2022-10-12T06:01:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T06:01:59","slug":"review-love-me-by-christmas-by-jaci-burton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/28\/review-love-me-by-christmas-by-jaci-burton\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f Love Me by Christmas by Jaci Burton"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-19448\" data-postid=\"19448\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-19448 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_74si854 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner gutter-narrow col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_lfpu000 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_j8hn808 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/love-me-by-christmas-jaci-burton.jpg?w=640\" title=\"Review \u2764\ufe0f Love Me by Christmas by Jaci Burton\" alt=\"Review \u2764\ufe0f Love Me by Christmas by Jaci Burton\">\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_nnx6580 customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>A sexy, standalone novella from the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<em>USA Today<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author of the Play-by-Play series and Hope series.<\/strong><\/span><br \/> <br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> Ellie Washington lost her husband in a tragedy five years ago at Christmas. She wouldn\u2019t have made it through her grief if not for her husband\u2019s brother, Nick, who helped her pick up the pieces of her shattered life. And with every year, her feelings for Nick have grown. Now she realizes she might be in love with him, but that\u2019s not fair, because Nick deserves a life that isn\u2019t about his brother\u2019s widow and son.\u00a0<\/span><br \/> <br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> Sharing his life with Ellie and her son has been the balm that soothed Nick\u2019s soul after losing his brother. Now that friendship has turned into something deeper. Nick doesn\u2019t want to upset the status quo, but someone has to make the first move, and it\u2019s time they figure out if their feelings are real. Nick believes in what they have. He also believes in Christmas miracles, and he thinks they\u2019re both long overdue for one.<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_ip74295 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_rvdd880  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16468 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/4-hearts.jpg?resize=170%2C44\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong>\u00a0Nov 7, 2017<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong>\u00a0Sensual\/Hot<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Jaci Burton Inc.<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong>\u00a0$2.99<\/p><hr \/><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019ll be honest with you, I have mixed feelings about the trope of a widowed hero or heroine becoming romantically involved with the deceased spouse\u2019s sibling. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn\u2019t. <strong><em>Jaci Burton\u2019s <\/em>Love Me by Christmas<\/strong> is one of the ones that worked.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ellie Washington<\/strong> lost her husband five years ago around Christmas. She was pregnant with his baby at the time and had no one\u2014except for her husband\u2019s family, namely his brother Nick. So she moved into Nick\u2019s house, gave birth to her son, Henry, and finds herself living with Nick five years later.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Nick <\/strong>was devastated by the death of his brother and needed Henry and Ellie just as much as they needed him to help deal with his grief. But as the years pass, he finds himself wanting to be more than her brother-in-law and Henry\u2019s uncle. More than the friends they\u2019ve become. He wants her, period. In his arms, in his bed because she\u2019s already in his heart.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Love Me by Christmas<\/strong> is a great Christmas novella. It has the kind of Christmas feel to it that makes a reader all hot and toasty and thinking of making love in front of a roaring fireplace with a decorated, scented pine nearby. Well right up until the scene about the kick in the balls. No permanent damage is done, but what a way to start off the holiday season. However, it\u2019s incidences like this that underscore Ellie\u2019s growing attraction to Nick and deepens her guilt.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I get where she\u2019s coming from. She believes her presence in his home is stopping him from moving on with his life and finding a nice woman, so she decides to play matchmaker. For me, this is where the fun began. Watching her fight her feelings for him and try to set him up with some of her friends, knowing all the time, the only person he wants is her. And I had to laugh at the way he handles the second woman.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Things eventually come to a head, heightening the sexual tension between them to delicious peak levels and then of course, there\u2019s the fallout; the misgivings and the guilt. 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She wouldn\u2019t have made it through her grief if not for her husband\u2019s brother, Nick, who helped her pick up the pieces of her shattered life. And with every year, her feelings for Nick have grown. Now she realizes she might be in love with him, but that\u2019s not fair, because Nick deserves a life that isn\u2019t about his brother\u2019s widow and son.\u00a0<br \/> <br \/> Sharing his life with Ellie and her son has been the balm that soothed Nick\u2019s soul after losing his brother. Now that friendship has turned into something deeper. Nick doesn\u2019t want to upset the status quo, but someone has to make the first move, and it\u2019s time they figure out if their feelings are real. Nick believes in what they have. He also believes in Christmas miracles, and he thinks they\u2019re both long overdue for one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/4-hearts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong>\u00a0Nov 7, 2017<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong>\u00a0Sensual\/Hot<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Jaci Burton Inc.<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong>\u00a0$2.99<\/p><hr \/><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019ll be honest with you, I have mixed feelings about the trope of a widowed hero or heroine becoming romantically involved with the deceased spouse\u2019s sibling. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn\u2019t. <strong><em>Jaci Burton\u2019s <\/em>Love Me by Christmas<\/strong> is one of the ones that worked.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ellie Washington<\/strong> lost her husband five years ago around Christmas. She was pregnant with his baby at the time and had no one\u2014except for her husband\u2019s family, namely his brother Nick. So she moved into Nick\u2019s house, gave birth to her son, Henry, and finds herself living with Nick five years later.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Nick <\/strong>was devastated by the death of his brother and needed Henry and Ellie just as much as they needed him to help deal with his grief. But as the years pass, he finds himself wanting to be more than her brother-in-law and Henry\u2019s uncle. More than the friends they\u2019ve become. He wants her, period. In his arms, in his bed because she\u2019s already in his heart.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Love Me by Christmas<\/strong> is a great Christmas novella. It has the kind of Christmas feel to it that makes a reader all hot and toasty and thinking of making love in front of a roaring fireplace with a decorated, scented pine nearby. Well right up until the scene about the kick in the balls. No permanent damage is done, but what a way to start off the holiday season. However, it\u2019s incidences like this that underscore Ellie\u2019s growing attraction to Nick and deepens her guilt.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I get where she\u2019s coming from. She believes her presence in his home is stopping him from moving on with his life and finding a nice woman, so she decides to play matchmaker. For me, this is where the fun began. Watching her fight her feelings for him and try to set him up with some of her friends, knowing all the time, the only person he wants is her. And I had to laugh at the way he handles the second woman.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Things eventually come to a head, heightening the sexual tension between them to delicious peak levels and then of course, there\u2019s the fallout; the misgivings and the guilt. I love the way this was handled because the emotions were so completely understandable and led the way to a lovely HEA.<\/p><p><em>~ Bev<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2Buslq3\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/love-me-by-christmas\/id1286853040?mt=11\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/love-me-by-christmas-jaci-burton\/1127119559?ean=2940158678189\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/love-me-by-christmas\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}