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reviewed The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch (Royals and Romance, #1)

Sara Raasch: The Nightmare Before Kissmas (2024, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 4 stars

Red, White & Royal Blue meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a sexy, quirky romcom …

Review of 'The Nightmare Before Kissmas' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Holidays apparently have royal families so obviously when the Prince of Christmas gets thrust into an arranged marriage with the Princess of Easter by his asshole dad, Santa, he’ll instead fall for the Prince of Halloween and stage an anti-capitalist coup against the commodification of Christmas. 
So, I’m back reading queer Christmas romcoms again and this one is a mixed bag I feel. It’s funny and cute but the characters didn’t quite work for me, that might be a lack of tension between the love interests. The world of holiday royals, politicking and paparazzi was different but maybe distractingly crazy if you’re not invested in the chaotic cheese.
Lastly, the broad message about the dominance of Christmas and how it becomes about cheap plastic gifts was good for the large part. But it got a bit focused on telling us how it should be rather than actually living up to it.
So on the whole, a cute romp with some fun themes but I felt like it needed a lot more polish behind its structure and messaging.  

Random quote: “I do not BLAST ICE when I orgasm!”