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TINSEL MY HEART is a sweet, heart-warming friends-to-lovers story that really put me in the holiday spirit!

Becca Huntley is in trouble.  No doubt about it.  Her community theater company, the Lyndale Park Players, is supposed to be putting on its annual Christmas play, complete with a big-name director to film it so the proceeds can getting them a new theater space.  Problem is, said big-name director hauled himself off to rehab for drug addiction.  Just when she thought they were sunk, in walks in Jack Whittaker, the other half of the directing duo, and the man who fueled her teenaged fantasy when they both in high school together ten years ago.

Jack Whittaker promised himself when he graduated high school that he’d never set foot in his Minnesota home town again, so why is he here?  His directing partner left him with the commitment of directing this community play when he went to rehab.  And it’s a Christmas play at that.  Jack hates everything Christmas.  The holiday just brings back all the turmoil of his childhood.  The only upside to this whole mess is that he gets to work with his high school crush, Becca, who just happened to go from pretty girl to beautiful woman in the last ten years.

As Jack and Becca get reacquainted, share a few super steamy kisses, and come together to make the Lyndale Park Players’ production a success, he realizes that the girl he liked has grown into a woman he loves.  Maybe Christmas isn’t so bad after all.

TINSEL MY HEART was just adorable.  Jack and Becca were so cute together.  I’m glad that they were able to come to terms with their shared past so that they were able to move forward together.  I’m an absolute sucker for friends-to-lovers and “second chance at love” stories, so this was right up my alley.  TINSEL MY HEART is  tame compared to some of the stories that I read, but it was no less steamy.  The sexual tension these two shared was thick enough to cut with knife.  

My only complaint about TINSEL MY HEART was that it was just too short.  At only about 120 pages long, I felt like the author tried to take on too much extra story that she really didn’t have time to develop with everything else going on.  I wish the story had been longer to give development to some of those side stories to make the overall book more fleshed out.

Even still, I enjoyed reading this story from the first page to the last.  So four stars for this delightful holiday story.  TINSEL MY HEART is the second book I’ve read by author Chrsiti Barth, and love the way she blends romance with stories I can relate to in such a way that I can’t stop myself from turning the page.

✳✳ Copy provided by the author/publisher for an honest review. 

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