Kentucky Christmas by Sarah Title
Released: December 5, 2013
Contemporary Novella
Kensington
Reviewed by Mandi
I really enjoyed Sarah Title’s debut earlier this year, Kentucky Home and was happy to see a holiday novella set in the same town.
This book is cute, but a little too short to be sold on the romance. Andrew Bateman is from New York has been laid off. His cousin offers him a sales job, so he finds himself in Kentucky, in a snow storm a few days before Christmas. He is not happy.
That was another thing he hated. Being thirty-one. Thirty was not so bad. Thirty-one seemed like: no turning back now, buddy. And what was he doing with his life? He was Midwest Regional Sales Rep for Bateman Veterinary Supply, and kind of sucking at that. He’d made about three sales in Indiana. Now he was just hoping for the next appointment to go well so he could go back to his dinky apartment above his cousin’s garage and watch everyone sing Christmas songs and drink eggnog and get fat.
Let’s just say he has a bad attitude about his job. His night gets worse when he gets lost, stares at his GPS and ends up crashing into the side of the local bar. Billie runs out to make sure he is okay. Billie has grown up in this town and is a local vet tech. She lives with her dad and is quite content. The next day when Andrew shows up at her work to sell vet equipment, Billie can’t help but notice how cute he is. Andrew is really bad at sales, but his day is saved when she offers to let him stay at her house while his car is being fixed. Naughtiness soon follows.
This is quite a short book but features two cute characters. Billie is very into the Christmas holiday while Andrew isn’t, so her holiday cheer definitely starts to rub off on him. I really liked the fact that Andrew has been laid off. The reason I say that is because it’s rare to find a hero who isn’t super wealthy or super talented at something. Andrew is computer savvy, but his current situation is not ideal and that was different. I appreciated that.
Andrew has a lot of issues with his extended family back home and this story is too short to really get into all of it. I wish that could have been explored more. This ends with a happy for now (no I love you) very appropriate for the length of this book. I look forward to Sarah Title’s next full length
Rating: C+
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