Elf Against the Wall

A Holiday Romantic Comedy

De: Alina Jacobs

Narrado por: Avery Reid, Tim Page

When you kiss your perfect boyfriend under the mistletoe...only for your cousin scream to the family that you stole her man, you realize that you will never again have a merry Christmas.

In my defense, I didn’t know my boss—yup, boss. Buckle up because this is messy—was my cousin’s newly minted and totally lying fiancé. I thought he was the Nutcracker Prince come to finally show my family that I, too, was worthy of putting the star atop the Christmas tree.

I was so wrong.
Now my entire family thinks I’m a ho ho ho.
I’m at the top of the naughty list, not in a fun Elf on the Shelf way, but rather in a snide-comments-at-brunch and sitting-at-the-kids’-table kinda way.

I have to clear my name, or Christmas is ruined. Again.
What better way than to blackmail my family’s number one sworn enemy?
Anderson Wynter is this desperate elf’s last hope. Six-foot-five, ethically challenged, with washboard abs and a death wish, Anderson is the perfect weapon to expose my ex and help me get back in my family’s good graces.
That is, until the weapon massively backfires… and no, not like that.

Anderson goes full Nightmare Before Christmas and shows up at my family’s annual holiday party in nothing but tattoos and a motorcycle helmet and tells everyone we’re dating.
Yep, that kicks me off the naughty list and sends me straight to the Grinch’s garbage dump.

Now I’m chained to a motorcycle-riding bad elf with terrible morals and an even worse attitude—one who sticks his hand down my shirt in the middle of my parents’ posh country club and tells me to ride him like I do his bike.
When I slap him, he just smirks and asks if I fluff my marshmallows while fantasizing about betraying my family with him.
As if.

No way am I sleeping with the man my entire family hates.
Because that won’t just ruin Christmas.
It’ll ruin the rest of my life.

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Twice as long as needed

This could have been much shorter and less repetitive. If you have issues with your family of origin this is very triggering if only because the emotional abuse of the FMC goes on and on and is treated like comedy.

Funny awkward family Christmas romance

Awkward Christmas romance between two unlikely people, starting out as a enemies fake “bumping ugly’s” with the MFC, Evie Murphy, blackmailing the MMC, Anderson Wynter, to helping her get the truth out of her cheating x-boss/lover that ruined her reputation both professionally and personally with her family.

A lot of crazy situations happen and some are genuinely funny, but with a lot of inappropriate bad behavior, think Bad Santa. This follows the same pattern/story line as the first book in the series

Overall I gave it 3.5-4 Stars ⭐️

The audiobook has dual narration and both narrators, Avery Reid & Tim Page, did a great job 👏 🎙️👏 4⭐️

How can they be so mean!

The book is a fun. I do like when there are two narrators I just like it better when the girl read the girl voices and the boy reads theirs.

Elf against the wall

I really liked the elf gone bad last Christmas. The female in this story written as too much of doormat and hate to sound mean but clueless and not very bright. I got to chapter 17 and just did not want to finish.

Granny with Attitude!

This is my 3rd Alina Jacobs book and I adored this one as much as the others.

Evie and Anderson have great chemistry and brilliant banter! Add in Evie's crazy family and Anderson's meddling brother and you have a hit!

Granny Doyle is quite the character and she reminded me a lot of my own Grandma. She had me laugh out loud...a lot.

The story for me is 4.25 stars.
The narration is about 3.25 stars. I enjoyed their own character narrations, but a lot of the supporting actors sounded exactly the same and I struggles with figuring out who was who. It didn't take away from the plot, but I had to relisten to some scenes a few times.

Dual Narration
Romantic Comedy
Holiday Romance
Spicy

A great Holiday laugh

My absolute favorite character in this book is Grandma Doyle. I was laughing so much during each scene with her. Don't get me wrong the spice was nice, but if you need a good laugh then the outta pocket nature of Granny Doyle is for you.

I had a love hate relationship with this book

I really had a love hate relationship with this book .. by about half way through I was so disgusted by how the mfc let her family treat her .. she needed to grow a backbone and tell them to shove it .. however I did enjoy the rest of the story .. probably won’t be on my read again list 🤷🏻‍♀️

The dirty talk champion has been crowned!!!!

Enemies to lovers, black sheep of family, romcom, Xmas, fake dating (wait no, fake f*ucking lol), and hot hot HOT spice.

In the beginning, I was worried that I wouldn't connect with the MMC as he was not that... likable. However, as we get into the story and learn more the author does a great job at redeeming his character. I felt so bad for both of them as the black sheep of their family. However, I felt super bad for the FMC. I think it was to the extreme, but I think that we can all relate to how she feels at some point.

(I do think that this is the dirtiest(for lack of better words) book that this author has written so be ready for that.)

I listened to the audio. And it is chefs kiss. The narrators are amazing! Really gives that something extra to the book. Definitely do not listen to one speaker at work, home, or anywhere that someone might hear, especially little ears. Audio may induce blushing!

This is the second book in the series but it could be read as a stand alone as everything you need to know is given to you. Though I recommend reading the other books as you will have met the characters before and know the secondary characters.

Quirky fun comedy very refreshing!

So fun romantic, sexy and fun, light and just what i was looking for this season.

Cute Quick Read

Great narration and audio quality!

The story itself was extremely similar to book 1, however it was still a fun read. Evie's family was so horrible, but it was great to see her find her own way and put them in their place. Anderson's hard exterior finally cracks for her and it was so satisfying to see that character development. I would pick book 1 over this one, however I do recommend if you can handle the family triggers and want a funny holiday read!!