Luc Dreamer

'Tis the Season

Lucia Correa

3.5 Stars for this new Christmas Novella by Luci Dreamer.

It’s the start of Christmas season and Prosecutor Olivia Predmore and her long time defense attorney boyfriend travel to a Christmas tree farm for a Christmas tree. The farm is run by Bridgette (Bridge) Faul, an ex-convict that is the owner and operator of the farm. She employs other ex-convicts with a goal of getting them on their feet. The boyfriend is instantly unlikable and Bridge instantly likable, especially to Olivia. After being together for about 10 years, the boyfriend finally proposes.

Olivia travels to the farm in the spring to check out their flowers for her wedding and she finds Bridge for help. By summer Olivia is no longer engaged. Olivia and Bridge’s friendship and relationship has ups and downs with Olivia navigating her first time feelings for a woman.

There is slow and there is slow. Their romance takes place over a year and at times only see and talk to each other weeks/months apart. But then again if you add up the amount of time they actually spent together, its practically instant.

I enjoyed it. This is only the second work I’ve read by Dreamer and it won’t be my last.

june

Jude Silberfeld

3.5* – The mistakes Bridge made in her youth led her straight to prison. After her release, having experienced the difficulty of finding a job as an ex-con, she applied for and got a grant to turn an old farm into a place to help others like her find their way back into society. When Olivia, a prosecutor, and her boyfriend come to the farm to get a Christmas tree, Bridge succumbs to Olivia’s charm almost immediately. Olivia doesn’t understand it then but the feeling is mutual.

Set in a covid-free alternate universe (one of the characters mentions the year as being 2020), ‘Tis the Season is a cute butch-femme opposites-attract Christmas novella. Bridge is kind and sweet, extremely patient with Olivia’s questioning, while Olivia does her best not to hurt Bridge too much in the time it takes her to find her way. There are interesting secondary characters too.

I also like the tongue-in-cheek allusions to Hallmark movies. All in all, a short but sweet read.

I received a copy from the author and I am voluntarily leaving a review.

'Tis the Season

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