Make You Mine This Christmas: 'The queer Christmas rom-com I've been waiting for' LAURA KAY

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It was brought to my attention because of dyspraxia and that part was spot on but I loved everything else too. The next day the news is out that they're apparently a couple, madly in love and coming to Oxlea to spend the festive season with Christopher's family. Let’s get something out of the way: If you go into this thinking you’ll get 300 pages of pure swoon and longing, you might not find what you’re looking for, as this book a) spends a long time setting up the romance and bringing them together and b) comes with a strong focus on friendship, meaning we spend a lot of time with other characters than just protagonist and love interest, such as the Golden Retriever fake-date, the sardonic non-binary bestie, and various other fun and chaotic side characters. To save her new friend from embarrassment – and with no better plans of her own – Haf agrees to go along with the ruse. Aber die Charaktere waren total einnehmend und ja, es hatte natürlich auch wirklich lustige und romantische Szenen, die ich mochte.

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? A lot of contemporary romances get described as rom-coms, and in a lot of cases this is just lies, spouted by the publishers to get more people to pick up the books. Okay, now I’m coming round to it… If not, how far would you go to help make a friend’s ex feel jealous?Also appreciated the brilliant Neurodivergent, Non-Binary and EDS/Hypermobility representation which is both blended in and accepted as the "norm" while simultaneously shining light on the issues that people within those minorities experience, especially as this is a romance. 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). Together, they head into the holidays with secrets, insecurities, and a fake dating plan that is bound to go badly.

The e-book and audio book come out ahead of the printed version (I haven't checked but wonder if the issues publishers have had with paper shortages have delayed the print version? This is supposed to be a sapphic romance, but the (insufferable) protagonist spends more time having heart-to-heart conversations with the (actually sweet) guy she’s “fake dating” than with her love interest, whom she has zero chemistry.

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