The Remains of Christmas by Megan Montgomery on November 5, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Erotica / General, Fiction / Holidays, Fiction / Romance / Billionaires, Fiction / Romance / Erotic, Fiction / Romance / General
Pages: 328
Format: eBook
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Traipsing through the woods, searching for a century-old skull is just another day at the office for forensics professor, Dr. Chris Carter. But this call couldn’t have come at a worse time. He’s recently been jilted by his long-term crush. It’s days away from Christmas and he’s spending the holidays alone. It’s bone-chillingly cold, he really needs that third cup of coffee, and there’s nothing remotely interesting about this cut-and-dried case. Until his colleague’s new assistant bounces onto the crime scene. Daphne McKinnon is bubbly and gorgeous, with a keen intelligence and an eye for detail that makes her an excellent anthropologist. Their eyes linger too long inside the caution-taped perimeter. Her smile stretches wide as his thumb accidentally brushes hers over a dirt-encrusted orbital bone. When Chris and Daphne agree to transport the remains across the state to his lab, their spark ignites. Something about this woman turns the snobby, uptight, millionaire academic into a protective, feral… Daddy… who can’t say no to her. Especially not when she’s urging him to right the wrongs of Christmases past, heal their childhood wounds, and make their own new, movie-worthy holiday traditions along the way. But while they’re making merry, every stop on their Christmas Eve road trip turns into one disaster after another, until one giant peppermint hot cocoa bomb threatens to blow their cozy new world apart, almost as soon as it began. They’ve already started planning their lives together, but their relationship might not even survive the remains of Christmas.
I’m just going to sum this up for you real quick. Don’t waste your time. It was terrible and everything about it was cringy.
This book… was much different from what I was expecting. The premise of two forensic scientists working on a skull was what captivated me from the start and the reason I wanted to read this book, but there was none of it? I mean, it’s only in the first chapter, then the story takes a completely different road. I expected a sort of investigation, but this skull was immediately forgotten. There are a lot of smut scenes, which I don’t usually mind, but here it’s all the book is about and it wasn’t my cup of tea. There is no plot and they go from acquaintances to being hopelessly in love in the span of two days? What really threw me off was the resolution to their “problem” at the end? Are you for real? You’ve known each other for less than a week!
The only reason it got two stars from me was because I did not DNF it, and boy did I want to.