Review / Release Blitz: Holidating: Three Sizzling Holiday Romances by Sarina Bowen

Holidating: Three Sizzling Holiday Romances by Sarina Bowen is LIVE NOW!

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24-time USA Today bestseller Sarina Bowen's first holiday collection! Enjoy three complete holiday romances from Sarina Bowen. You’re getting:

Boyfriend: a complete holiday novel with a hilarious premise.
Rent a boyfriend for the holiday. For $25, I will be your Thanksgiving date. I will show up in a nice shirt, talk hockey with your dad and bring your mother flowers…
Everyone knows it’s a bad idea to introduce your hockey crush to your messed-up family. But Abbi really needs a date for Thanksgiving, even if she can’t say why. But when she tears Weston’s number off of a flyer, she accidentally entangles Moo U’s star defenseman in a ruse that neither of them can easily unwind.

Crossroads: a novella of missed connections, broken dreams and two hearts that just won’t quit. Damien Rossi drives a taxi but dreams of more. Specifically, he dreams about Nicolette Overland, his favorite client, a lonely beauty who lives in an actual mansion on a hill.

Nicolette can’t stop thinking about the hunky guy with the soulful brown eyes, either. She looks forward to every Christmas holiday when she knows he’ll be waiting for her at the airport. But when she screws up her courage to finally tell him how she feels, it might be too late…

Blonde Date: a novella of hot nerds, basketball and revenge. Katie is done with bad boys after some very poor treatment by a fraternity guy. Now, facing a holiday Greek event, she needs a date. A nice guy this time. Good thing a certain nerdy basketball player wants to audition for the role…

Note: Boyfriend (68k words) is separately available, Crossroads (35k words) is brand new, and Blonde Date (30k words) has been previously published.

MY REVIEW

Boyfriend - 5 stars

I read Boyfriend when it was first published, and loved it!

Abbi's been working her ass off to graduate. She works shifts like mad at The Biscuit, waitressing, making tips, and drooling over the resident hockey star, Weston (Westie), who is a regular with his team at the restaurant. Then one fake date, a Thanksgiving feast, and some flirty banter later, and suddenly these two are about to prove fake can be so very, very real when the chemistry these two have has its way with them.

I have to say this first - Westie is the sweetest, swooniest BBF I've read, in a long, long time. Though he was totally anti-love, it was obvious that he was more than capable of it, and would be falling for Abbi, in a very short amount of time. She was absolutely as sweet as he, the two were perfect for each other. Their banter was funny and witty, their chemistry was hotter than hell, and it was wrapped up in a sweet epilogue. I can't wait for more Moo U hockey love now!

Blonde Date - 4 stars

Andy's going on a date with the beautiful girl he's crushed on since he first saw her. He can't believe his luck, and he's going to do his best to convince Katie that nice guys really don't finish last.

Katie really doesn't want to go to this party where she'll have to see the jerk ex she just broke up with. But at least her date seems like a really sweet guy. He's so different from her ex, and not just in looks. Soon she's finding herself really enjoying their date. Is it possible this good guy is the right guy for her?

Katie and Andy are adorable. It was obvious Andy had a huge crush on her, but going on a date with her allowed him to see her as more than just the girl he crushed on from afar. I love that Katie could see how truly good he was, and felt safe with him, which was so different than how she felt with her ex.

Crossroads - 5 stars

Damien drives a taxi in his small town, when he's tasked with driving a beautiful new client to the airport. On the way, he and Nicolette get to know each other a bit. Then, as he drives her back and forth between her mansion and the airport, both develop decidedly more than friendly feelings. But alas, this is not their time, and they slip away from each other. Over the next 15 years, there are so many missed connections, missed chances, and it seems as if they'll never be on the same page at the same time. Until a very happy to help sister (Damien's) Zara decides to school her brother on things, and now, if Nicolette is of the same mind, their chance lies in front of them to grab.

I LOVE Damien and Nicolette. They're the cutest couple in this collection, and I was urging them on as year after year passed by with so many missed opportunities. Damien is freaking swoony af when he finally decides to go after his woman, and he had the best cheerleader in his sister. Though I was starting to get a little weepy, thinking these two weren't ever going to get it together, I was all smiles by the end when they seized their moment and ran with it. I love these two so much that I wish Sarina would write a whole series about them.