Snowed In For Christmas

And the Christmas ARCs have started!!! Here's FA Ray's "Snowed In For Christmas."

["All I want for Christmas ... is anyone but him.

Benjamin
I warned my father this snowstorm was coming, but he insisted that I spend Christmas with him, his girlfriend and her insufferable son. Jett is everything I hate, a loud, brash, carefree partyboy who spends more time drinking at our college than studying.
Now I’m trapped with him.
The snowstorm I predicted blows in, and now it’s just me, Jett and this big empty house in the mountains of Colorado. Our parents won’t be able to reach us for days — if either of us are still alive by then. I swear Jett is doing everything possible to get on my last nerve.
Yet when push comes to shove and Jett needs my help, I race out into the snow to rescue him.

Jett
I might have screwed up.
I pissed off Ben by messing with him, then stormed off into a blizzard in sneakers and a hoodie. Getting frostbite is not my idea of a perfect Christmas.
But getting rescued by a hot guy could be.
It’s got to be the hypothermia talking, but when Ben comes out into that snowstorm to save me, then all but carries me into a bathtub, my body reacts like he’s not my worst enemy. If our parents get married some day, this could all get really messy really fast — too bad I’ve never been a person who operates on cold logic, like Ben. I follow my heart. And right now, my heart is telling me Ben is my Christmas miracle. "]

THIS BOOK! My god, this book.

I wasn't too sure about it at first. Both characters were incredibly flawed and completely, utterly, total opposites (and not necessarily in an opposites attract kinda way). I didn't see how this was going to mesh into something, anything. But when they started letting their guards down, they were more alike than anyone (even me) realized.

These two had allll the feelings for each other. It just took an epic snow storm and near-hypothermia to switch things from enemies to lovers. And when they did? Jett was weak for Ben, and Ben was soft for Jett. They balanced each other out, sanded their rough edges, made the world seem less daunting. 

The pining and angst after their parents finally got to the cabin??? I could have done without that. But that's me talking as a reader. As a writer, it was achingly beautiful and pushed the plot along nicely. 

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