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So when she meets Christopher and a joke kiss under the mistletoe turns into people assuming they’re dating, she agrees to go to his family home for Christmas as his fake girlfriend. I loved Ambrose especially the cheeky polls, they absolutely deserve a book of their own, I’d love to find out more about them. But what I liked the most was that Make You Mine for Christmas was really good - REALLY GOOD - at platonic love.
This book vibrates at exactly my frequency and thus I am insulted it did not receive a print release and isn't being widely read. They probably think she’s having some kind of medical emergency from all the physiological signs of being completely mortified and horny all at once.It did a fab job with the chemistry between Kit and Haf, and made their insta-love feel at least half believable to me. Laugh out loud funny, clever dialogue, and a magnificent performance by Helen Keeley- who is now one of my favorite narrators. As for everyone else, my life is full of disabled, queer and trans people in particular, so writing about them was natural for me. When the fake-dating escalates to being invited home to his parents house for Christmas… I mean, maybe that’s a step further than most people would take it? From the mishaps and calamity to internet memes that my too-much-time-on-Twitter self absolutely ate up, with social media being involved in a way I really loved too.
Natürlich konnte man es sich nicht nehmen lassen, das Cover mit regenbogenfarbenen Kugeln und Zuckerstangen zu verzieren, sonst könnte man ja nicht ahnen, dass die beiden Frauen dort verliebt sind - aber ehrlich gesagt passt es auch ziemlich gut, denn zuckrig-kitschige Szenen, die vor queeren Referenzen nur so strotzten, wurden nicht zögerlich eingesetzt. To save her new friend from embarrassment - and with no better plans of her own - Haf agrees to go along with the ruse.Päris alguses võttis mul ikka veidi aega, et raamatusse sisse elada, aga siis millalgi suutis see mu ikka kaasa haarata. I need you to know before I begin this review that two of my four favourite films on my Letterboxd profile are Carol and Paddington 2, that both my sister and I are plus size queer people who are So Very Online, and that I sent her a ten minute voice note when I was barely a third of the way into this to yell about how she needs to read it immediately. Because although it is written with specific groups in mind, it is good enough to be read beyond that.
I'd recommend this entertaining novel to any, no matter what their orientation, because it's just fun, festive and heartwarming.Christopher’s ex assumed Haf is his new girlfriend and they both rolled with it, each for their own reasons. I’ve been a fat person for much of my life – I can remember being told to go on a diet aged 8, and I had a tricky relationship with food for a long time. Together, they head into the holidays with secrets, insecurities, and a fake dating plan that is bound to go badly. Make You Mine This Christmas follows Haf, a fat ecologist who is battling burnout due to an awful job. Add to that a fount of entertaining banter with all of the fantastic side characters, and this really was just so entertaining the whole way through!
We only see the characters from the back, yet to the reader, it’s very obvious who each of them is supposed to be.This is one of those books that is 100% better in audio and absolutely had me laughing out loud a few times and smiling a lot (much to my chagrin, I’m sure a few of my neighbors think I’m weird now…if they didn’t already). They are also the author of the children’s biography Sir David Attenborough: A Life Story (2020) and a contributor to the anthology Allies: Real Talk About Showing Up, Screwing Up, And Trying Again (2021).
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