When lust turns to love, it’s one fire he can’t extinguish…Merle Cameron’s not looking for love. Between her job as a university lecturer and caring for a mother recovering from breast cancer, she has no room in her schedule for a demanding relationship.
DiDi’s Review:
Merle has finally found a way to escape the demands of her job as a professor at a university in England and taking care of her demanding, manipulative, spoiled mother. She has traveled to New Zealand to spend Christmas with her sister Bree and brother-in-law Jake. Because Merle epitomizes, the stereotypical uptight English woman, Bree talkes her into taking a walk on the wild side and having a holiday fling with Jake’s cousin, Neon. Neon is a sexy firefighter/rugy player/surfer, pretty much a good time guy with no intentions of settling down. They have an instant flaming hot attraction, that doesn’t dim as Merle’s time to return to England draws closer.
I LOVED this book, it is 100% romance, with smokin’ hot smexin’, humor, a great secondary cast, a totally lovable heroine and a to die for hero. There is no murder and mayhem, even though I would’ve loved to wrap my hands around Merle’s mother’s neck.
White Hot Christmas makes it easy to believe there could be such thing as falling in love in a short period of time, Ms. Woods described the developing feelings and emotions both Neon and Merle were having so clearly that I felt like I was falling in love with them. Neon is incredibly sexy, tender and caring. Merle is enchanting and adorable as she realizes how much she likes this sexual awakening Neon is taking her on. My heart broke for both of them when they said their good-byes. And I cheered for the utterly romantic way Neon fought for Merle and her response.
I can go on and on about White Hot Christmas, but I’ll summarize my feelings as best I can:
White Hot Christmas is a story that is going to stick with me for a long time. If you like a story that has great character development, humor, hot smexin’, fiesty heroine, tough but tender hero, great interactions with the secondary casts, some angst while the H/h try to find a way to make a HEA work and then a super, sweet, funny, amazing ending…then RUN don’t mosey…to your favorite book seller to pre-buy White Hot Christmas.
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MelissaS
November 22, 2011 at 11:43 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
D, Where do you find all these books??? I need your secret..lol
Great review!
Kathleen O
November 22, 2011 at 12:09 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I love it.. It is going on my tbr list… I love this authors name…
Thanks for sharing.
smiles
November 22, 2011 at 12:55 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
What a list of books you come up with D. Love all the reviews you have posted and look forward to the ones still to come
DiDi
November 22, 2011 at 3:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
lol Melissa, it is luck…but believe me, I do get a handful that I won’t post reviews for because they earn less than 2 stars…Since I’m all about positive I just can’t make myself post them.
DiDi
November 22, 2011 at 3:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Kathleen I love her name too!
smiles…THANK YOU so much!! I know that not everyone will like everything I like the same, but hopefully most of my reviews are close to what others will like.
Timitra
November 22, 2011 at 3:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Great review DiDi!
MaryC
November 22, 2011 at 7:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Didi – what a great review!
Now I just need the time to read the books I keep loading onto my Nook after reading your reviews!
Faye/Serenity
November 22, 2011 at 7:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Hi DiDi, just wanted to say thank you for your lovely review – it’s so nice to hear when people like what I’ve written! And I’m so glad you like my name too! I’m starting to write under my own name now as well (Faye Robertson) but will continue writing as Serenity for Samhain Publishing. Names are so important, aren’t they?
Carol L.
November 23, 2011 at 7:49 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
A new book for my TRL. Thanks for posting about it.
Carol L
Lucky4750 (at) aol (dot) com
DiDi
November 23, 2011 at 9:03 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thank you Carol. I hope you enjoy it!!! I love reading about Christmas in other countries =)
And thank you for checking out all of the posts you did today, I appreciate it!!!
Shirley Wine
November 29, 2011 at 12:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
A great review for a great book by a really good author.
Lisa H
July 1, 2012 at 12:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Definitely on my tbr list now. Thanks for the review.