Christmas off Script
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Enjoy this laugh-out-loud, steamy romance series by multi-award-winning romantic comedy author Evie Alexander…
Best friends Leo Foxbrooke and Ella Chamberlain love Christmas and each other—in a strictly platonic way, of course. The only secret they've ever kept from each other is a mutual crush they had when teenagers. But the timing was never right.
Until now…
Dumped by her boyfriend, Ella's facing Christmas homeless and alone. The only ray of sunshine in her life is Leo and his family, who welcome her into Foxbrooke Manor. Staying in the bedroom next to Leo's is a luxury and means more time together prepping for the Christmas pantomime.
Leo always plays a side role, and Ella paints the sets. But as the clock ticks down to Christmas, they find themselves center stage playing Cinderella and Prince Charming. Rehearsal kisses between best friends should be easy. Right? So why do they feel so real?
Ella can't risk losing Leo when she's already lost so much. But as the Christmas countdown heats up, hearts melt, and practice kisses turn into much more. With Leo and Ella falling for each other faster than the snow outside, maybe this Christmas, they can finally rewrite their friendship and unwrap true love…
Christmas off Script is a friends-to-lovers, forced proximity, steamy, standalone romantic comedy with a modern-day Cinderella, her swoony Prince Charming, and more heat than chestnuts roasting on an open fire – Perfect for fans of Lucy Score, Pippa Grant, Kayley Loring, Tara Sivec, Lauren Landish, Lauren Blakely and Nicole Snow. No cheating or cliffhanger, but all the Christmas feels, a sackful of lols, and a fairytale happy ending guaranteed in this fabulously festive and magical romcom!
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Customer Reviews
My New Favorite Friends to Lovers Romance
Right off the bat, I appreciated Alexander’s description of pantomime for her readers outside the UK. While I had heard references to this, I had never known what it truly was, so this helped immensely with some added context.
My only regret with reading this getting this book early was that because I was reading it early November, I read it before it felt like it was properly the Christmas season. This book is a perfect way to get into the spirit, with Ella and Leo’s preparations for the holidays (especially their multiple “starts”) feeling like two people who have managed to hold on to their childlike enthusiasm for Christmas (even while making and drinking limoncello). I suppose that just means that I’ll have to do a reread closer to Christmas so I can fully appreciate the same joy they do.
I really loved the humor in this book. Alexander has managed to make each of the Foxbrooke novels unique, with diverse characters that have their own distinctive personalities. I enjoyed both Ella and Leo (especially Leo) being goofy and silly and fun. Just as Leo points out, so many romance heroes are tall, dark and broody, but it can also be nice for the MMC to be the sunshine type. I loved seeing how their relationship grew and changed from friends to lovers and appreciated how Alexander showed some of the difficulties of that transition.
Along with the silliness of Ella and Leo, there are all of antics of the family patriarch. Arthur’s innuendos, costume demands and goading his children to give him grandkids always make me laugh. Between him in these Foxbrooke novels, some of the other parents in this series, and the parents in the Kinloch series, I feel that Evie Alexander really knows how to relieve some tension (or sometimes add some humorous tension) with how she writes the parental units.
I was once again given the opportunity to read this next installment of the Foxbrooke series ahead of pub day and I’m so glad to have been able to get this chance because I enjoyed it so much.