Andrew offers Ellie ten percent of the inheritance to be his fake fiancée then wife for about a year before they part ways. A year later, Ellie agrees to have a fake fiancée relationship with Andrew, who owns the building she’s a barista in. Obviously I am very heated by the wrongs done to a fictional character here, which just goes to show that it's a super engaging read with well drawn characters.

HOWEVER… She spent the whole book going after her brother’s fiancée, and straight up trying to get with her, making out with her… A literal homewrecker!The anxiety extrapolates and catastrophizes all the way to its natural conclusion: if I’m late for work again, my trash heap of a life will finally be put in the compactor and crushed into a cube of steaming hot garbage once and for all. Sometimes you really can have instant chemi

But if you set up reader expectations that the main character is aspec, then of course you're going to let down a lot of them.Another of the book’s strengths is the delicate balance between fun and humor and the heavy familial issues both Ellie and Jack are dealing with. Sometimes you really can have instant chemistry with someone you’ve only just met, rare but possible! But when Andrew introduces his new fiancee to his sister, Ellie is shocked to discover it’s Jack–the mysterious woman she fell for over the course of one magical Christmas Eve the year before. A sparkling winter wonderland, quirky family traditions, and a messy 'love trapezoid' make the yuletide gay in this earnest queer rom-com. In the middle of the book before the shit hits the fan, Cochrun also introduces two of my favorite secondary characters, Lovey and Meemaw.

It is amazing because on paper this should not be a Lex book, but it is just so well written, and for a sophomore book that is even more impressive, that none of the things that would normally bother me bothered me.the story is peppered with flashbacks to the snow day love story of last christmas, which contrast with this angsty and anxious christmas. I wish that he wouldn’t have ended up with the person that he ended up with because their relationship seemed like it was purely lust and it lacked depth, but he was still a fun character to read about and I was rooting for his sucess from the start of the book. I don’t know if I’d strongly recommend this book since it had so many flaws, but I don’t regret reading this book.