Meteors and Menorahs

By: Nessa Claugh

Narrated by: Tasheen Firth

Your dad invited your ex-boyfriend.

Already committed to going home for Hanukkah, Leah panics at her mother’s text and invites her crush to come with her. The catch? They aren’t dating. The other catch? He isn’t Jewish. He isn’t even human.

Knar has been studying the physiology of humans for years in preparation to introduce Earth to the rest of the galaxy and present them as a species that can adapt to change well. Although he believes in his mission, he’s also had his eye on his coworker Leah, and her invitation to come home with her for the holidays is just the opportunity he’s been looking for.

Going home for Hanukkah is normally the least of Leah’s worries - until her mom lets it slip that her dad invited her ex-boyfriend. Desperate to keep him at arm’s length, Leah invites her handsome coworker Kenneth Knar to be a buffer against her family. Having to pretend he’s her new boyfriend doesn’t hurt, and if it annoys her parents, all the better.

He just has to find some way to tell her that he’s more than just a gentile. He’s not even from this planet. And Leah hates liars.

The menorah isn’t the only thing getting hot this holiday season…

©2021 Nessa Claugh (P)2021 Nessa Claugh

Cute Alien Romance

Super cute and sweet, friends to lovers, fake relationship. Plus aliens, sounds like my catnip. And it’s funny!

Actresses Limited Range

The voice actress was good at portraying the accents and common language but didn't have the range of voices to differentiate the characters from female to male and for different male characters.

funnier than I thought it would be

I got this as a free code for honest review. fake dating with Jewish representation. it was a good story about letting go of past heartaches. it was funnier than I thought it would be and a nice change of pace.

Totally fun

This one was very cool to find actually, it was interesting a rom com with aliens usually you see more erotica than anything in this subgenre of romance, but I liked this one a lot.

As any rom com they where issues and drama everywhere, but we all love that, then the twist that this love interest it’s out of this world, literally, and our protagonist it’s huge with lies so that doesn’t bode that well.

The characters where likable, specially Kenneth he was so cute and adorable, we did had David totally hated him but he was kind of our villain so.

What i did like about it was that it explained very effortlessly some Jewish traditions and the importance of family that was nice and wholesome.

A pretty cool ride actually.

Cute until it wasn’t

I enjoyed the first half of the book; however, the second half was not it for me. And the transphobic dialogue between two of characters made me cringe and feel icky.