You Can't Ruin Christmas

Snowflake Creek, Book 1

De: Olivia Noble

Narrado por: Samantha Archer

Have you ever been dumped right before the holidays? It sucks.

Luckily, my handsome hockey player roommate steps in with a plan. He's going to volunteer his services as my personal trainer, so that I can get a revenge body and make my ex regret leaving me. But during our long, sweaty sessions at the gym, I find myself becoming more and more attracted to Sven.

His muscles are enough to make any girl swoon. He is sweet and caring with a panty-melting smile.

Did I mention he's my ex's brother?

Ignoring that, Sven might manage to save my Christmas from being an utter disaster, after all.

©2019 ThunderWords Press (P)2019 ThunderWords Press

Cute Read

I really enjoyed listening to Sven who is a former soccer player turned personal trainer after an injury. Mary is an aspiring actress doing voice overs and audiobooks. Sven who is a twin and his brother is Sebastian a hockey player. Mary and Sven are roommates, odd combination since Mary was dating Sebastian Sven’s brother. Sebastian and Mary were in a relationship and he broke her heart. Sven agrees to be Mary personal trainer in hopes of Mary winning back Sebastian. In the process Mary and Sven develop feelings for each other.

How will Sebastian feel when he finds out that his brother Sven and Mary are in a relationship, did Mary’s revengeful tact work for or against her in getting Sebastian back, could Mary and Sven have been secretly crushing on each other, is there an HEA in store for Mary a Sven.

I received an ARC via Booksprout and I am leaving my review voluntarily.

WHAT THE...???

FIRST i WAS LOOKING FOR LGTBQ+ STORIES. AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF HETERO BEING MIXED IN WIT GAY WHEN IT COMES TO MOVIES AND AUDIO BOOKS. THE STORY WAS OKAY BUT WHEN THE NARRATOR DOING MALE VOICES NEEDS MORE PRACTICE. COMES OFF TOO SLOW ALMOST LIKE BRAIN IMPARED / ROBOTIC EITHER THAN THAT GOOD STORY.

AND WITH THE LGGGBTQ+ DOESN'T HAVE TO HAVE A LOT OF SEX SCENES TO BE GOOD EITHER IF HAS A STRONG BACK BONE TO THE PLOT / STORY YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH VERY LITTLE IN DISCRIPTIVENESS IN THE SEX SCENES PREFER MORE POSSITIVE GAY ROLE MODLES STRONG STORY-LINES ESPECIALLY FOR KIDS COMING TO TERMS TO OR ABOUT SEX.

Ruining Christmas . . .

Mary Frost gets dumped by her hockey player boyfriend Sebastian when he left to play for another team. Mary sits at home watching her favorite TV show as she consumes the container of ice cream belonging to her roommate, who happens to be her ex-boyfriend’s twin brother Sven Anderrson. She is crying and tells him about her breakup while she appreciates his body and starts fantasizing! (This is not my visual of devastating sorrow.) Then Sven and Mary verbally bashed Sebastian, recalling his bad points and failures.

Mary blames the breakup on her less-than-desirable body. So she accepts Sven’s offer to be her personal trainer, again taking a long look at the great shape he is in. Rather than focusing on this so-called “revenge body” she is striving for, she focuses more and more on Sven. I’m still trying to see how Sebastian “abandoned” the two of them when he seemed to be focusing on his hockey career, although breaking up by text is a bit “cold”. However, Mary’s instant love for Sven was way too fast. The characters needed to be developed better and the insta-love stretched out to a more believable possibility. Jumping from one brother to the other so quickly is tacky. The reader/listener didn’t have time to get to know the characters and care about them before they showed all their nasty sides. Not connecting with them made the story have little appeal.

The narrator for the audiobook version is Samantha Archer. She does a fair but unimpressive job with the voices. Mary’s voice was okay and had good inflection, but Sven spoke each word in a choppy manner, not like an accent but more like a robot. If the voices are spoken naturally, they can make it easy for the listener to get an accurate idea of what each character is like. That would help to set the mood better as well and provide more enjoyable listening.

cute

The story is ok. Tha narrator speaks in an over annunciation stilted way. My family has a good number of Swedes. None speak as the narrator does.

Twin brothers

The story was a bit slow paced and predictable, but still sweet. Mary is dumped by her boyfriend right before Christmas, the twin brother offers her comfort, becoming her new boyfriend.
The narrator speech was spaced and did not flow naturally. That was the biggest negative for me. It kept me from getting into the story.

You Can't Ruin Christmas

You Can't Ruin Christmas
Book 1 of Snowflake Creek
Olivia Noble

It is a good book with good characters, Sven and Mary, that have chemistry. I just felt like the book was told and not really felt. The narration is okay but I really didn't like the voice when Sven spoke.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Good

This was a cute, fun Christmas book, and I really enjoyed it. The characters were relatable, and made a great couple.

Entertaining

While I found this book to be entertaining, I did not like the main characters at all no matter how much I tried. The narrator did a great job of bringing the story to life.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

I Nice Christmas book

I really enjoyed this Christmas romance, I like the characters and this book is fast paced and the narration was good.

Horrible narration

This was the worst narration I’ve ever heard. The storyline wasn’t much better. Thankfully it was very cheap.