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The Next Christmas Review by Rainbow Book Reviews

9/12/2015

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I'm thrilled to share this lovely review for the next part of David and Christian's story. We started off the story with Christmas Serendipity, and The Next Christmas is a novella telling of a the following Christmas between David and Christian. Here's Serena Yates' review on Rainbow Book Reviews.

The Next Christmas can be read as a standalone novella, but if you wanted, you could read Christmas Serendipity first, to find out how David and Christian met.

Here's the review for The Next Christmas:

David and Christian from ‘Christmas Serendipity’ are back, and after last year’s awful Christmas, when Christian’s parents told him “not to bother” to visit now that he turned out to be gay, I thought they deserved a better one this year. But while they have agreed to stay with Christian’s parents, much to David’s worry, the initial contact does not look very promising at all. It will take some doing for things to get somewhere near acceptable for two men who love each other as much as these two.

David is not looking forward to Christmas the way it is currently planned. Theoretically, now that Christian’s parents are speaking to them on a regular basis and have invited them for a Christmas visit, things should be okay. He is still worried about making a good impression, and about them judging him “not enough” for their son. Then he overhears Christian on the phone discussing sleeping arrangements – and David loses it. Separate rooms? Especially for Christmas? Why should he even bother? But as his best friend, Tony of the fabulous cocktails, tells him: “do it and think of Christian”. That made me laugh, but it also made me sad that some parents are so bigoted. As it turns out, there is more to the story, and I loved how Liam wrote the rest of it.

If you want to know how Christian and David are doing a year after ‘Christmas Serendipity’ (which you should definitely read first), if you like a distinctively British touch with your Christmas stories, and if you’re looking for a read that deals with real problems but does so in a very sweet touch, then you will probably like this novella. Oh and the ending? Absolutely perfect!

It's available on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com as well as the publisher's website.
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