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The Christmas Deal (2019)

door Keira Andrews

Reeksen: Festive Fakes (1)

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Will fake boyfriends become the real deal this holiday? It's the most wonderful time of the year—except ex-Marine Logan is jobless and getting evicted. Worse, he's a new single dad with a stepson who hates him. A kid needs stability—not to mention presents under the tree—and Logan's desperate.Then he meets lonely Seth and makes a deal.Can Logan temporarily pretend to be live-in boyfriends to increase Seth's chances at a promotion? If it provides a roof over their heads for the holidays, hell yeah. Logan considers himself straight—he doesn't count occasional hookups with guys—but he can fake it. Besides, with his shy little smile, Seth is surprisingly sexy.Make that damn sexy.Shocked that Seth has only been with one man, Logan can't resist sweetening their deal to teach him the joys of casual sex. No strings attached. No feelings. No kissing.No falling for each other.Easy, right?The Christmas Deal is a steamy holiday gay romance from Keira Andrews featuring fake boyfriends, bisexual awakening, a clueless single dad with an angry preteen, and of course a happy ending.… (meer)
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1.5 stars

The beginning was fine.
But then they started "hooking up" and downhill it went.
Normally I can deal with cliches but not here. This was a disaster.

Amanda, she of Family Values, is absolutely ridiculous. I won't even go there.

VERDICT : AVOID ( )
  QuirkyCat_13 | Jun 20, 2022 |
Logan is recently widowed of a woman he was breaking up with anyway and struggling to get back on his feet after losing his job while trying to provide a stable home for his step-son. Seth's boyfriend left him suddenly, and he's recently learned that appearing to be part of an intact family would likely greatly increase his chances of receiving a promotion he's been working toward at his job. Logan agrees to pretend to be in a relationship with Seth for a few weeks--Seth gets to look like he has a family, Logan gets a place to stay. Logan has had casual sex with men before, so he's not uncomfortable with the idea of appearing to be in a relationship with a man, and as he's never fallen in love with men before, he figures there's no risk of getting attached. Guess what?

A few elements of this romance made me raise my eyebrows a bit (the boss who promotes family men and women over single folks, involving a thirteen-year-old kid in deception of other adults), but for the most part it stayed clear of anything that ruined the story. I was only just this side of invested through the two-thirds mark, and then I got really wrapped up in the characters through to the end--though it still feels a little bit like Logan and Seth fell in love because they had to to fulfill the trope rather than because we saw any specific reason for them to do so. *shrug* It was fine. ( )
  lycomayflower | Jan 3, 2020 |
What a fun read this was! I needed light, relatively undemanding reading...beats expected and delivered, an ending without angst, sentences that don't slap your nose off and command your undivided attention...I got all that, a sweet bisexual tough guy realizing he can fall in love with a man, and build himself a happy family to boot.

Not entirely happy, to be fair...there are people in the world who love their hate more than they love anyone or anything else. But those jackasses aren't in the story, just the book, so it was okay.

It took me four days to read this slim volume, which should tell y'all what you need to know about my powers of concentration. Not good. Need that apnea issue solved STAT.

As I read this, I imagined the Hallmark movie of it. It's damn near perfect...with the few serious (NOT for the eww-ick homophobes among us!) sex scenes snipped, of course...and couldn't be more suitable to their need to make *serious* amends after caving to a few screaming lunatics when an ad on their network offended the religious belief that kissing is Just For Straights. No lip-lockin' lesbos on the teevee! That's wicked and wrong and will force Almighty Gawd to Frown and Smite.

But the Holocaust didn't? Starving people, freezing homeless vets, don't? Families separated by cruel and evil political policies are kosher with this Almighty of theirs? Guess so....

So Hallmark caved after a LOT more people got mad at 'em for being spineless worms. They issued a statement about it that was weak-kneed in the extreme, which made even more people mad. So what they need, if they want to get ahead of the nasty PR dumpster fire they're kindling, is to make them a queer Xmas movie. And this one? It's about perfect. Family trouble, bad choices haunting the main characters, a Cinderfella transformation for both leads. A ratty teenager whose misery about his life changing for the worse is handled by shouting and cussing and being cruel, so exactly like life; hijinks ensue. A supporting cast of endearingly daffy stock characters...the Office Goof, the Overbearing Boss with a Heart of Gold, the Earth Mother/Fix-it Lady, the Old Dad in the Chair...you know. Old wounds heal, new wounds scab over, and the strong structure of love carries the whole weight of the action with creaks and groans but no catastrophic failures.

It's a romance, that's not a spoiler.

Double-digit w-bombing starts past the 50% mark. I still can't believe anyone, anyone at all still less an author of more than ten books (like Keira Andrews is), thinks using the w-verb is a good idea. No one winks in real life, not least because it's cheesy and makes the winker look lame and mildly stupid. The winkee is entitled to smack the winker, or so say I, and I stick to my guns: Stop this! Wesist the wink! (And "Welease Wodewick" while you're about it, Biggus.)

I still recommend the read to any and all whose spirits are dragging, whose ho-ho-ho has transmogrified into you-dirty-ho and whose taste for fun with family needs a bit of smut to make it work, in the Tim Gunn sense. Now it's time for my nap, to dream dreamy dreams of dads with sons coming home from Harvard and carving the turkey for the whole famn damily. Just like it oughta be. ( )
  richardderus | Dec 27, 2019 |
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Will fake boyfriends become the real deal this holiday? It's the most wonderful time of the year—except ex-Marine Logan is jobless and getting evicted. Worse, he's a new single dad with a stepson who hates him. A kid needs stability—not to mention presents under the tree—and Logan's desperate.Then he meets lonely Seth and makes a deal.Can Logan temporarily pretend to be live-in boyfriends to increase Seth's chances at a promotion? If it provides a roof over their heads for the holidays, hell yeah. Logan considers himself straight—he doesn't count occasional hookups with guys—but he can fake it. Besides, with his shy little smile, Seth is surprisingly sexy.Make that damn sexy.Shocked that Seth has only been with one man, Logan can't resist sweetening their deal to teach him the joys of casual sex. No strings attached. No feelings. No kissing.No falling for each other.Easy, right?The Christmas Deal is a steamy holiday gay romance from Keira Andrews featuring fake boyfriends, bisexual awakening, a clueless single dad with an angry preteen, and of course a happy ending.

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