e-ALC, 04:48:00
Narrated by: Ramona Master & Noah B. Perez
Release Date: October 7, 2025
Published by: Brilliance Audio
Read from: December 13-14, 2025
Stand-alone
Source: Netgalley (I received this ALC free from the publisher and Netgalley. This did nothing to influence my review!)
Content Warning: Grief, Death of a Parent, Domestic Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Infidelity, Bullying, Racism, Biphobia
For Readers Interested In: 2sLGBTQ+ (Bisexual & Pansexual), Adult, Audio, Contemporary Romance, Dual POV, Enemies to Lovers, Holidaze, Racial/Ethnic Diversity, Realistic Fiction, RomanceThe twelve days of Christmas have never been hotter! Spice up the holiday season with this sizzling enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy by an internationally bestselling author.
Valencia
After calling it quits with my cheating fiancé, I’m definitely not feeling the Christmas spirit this year. But when my best friend invites me to a holiday dance party, I show up ready to shake my ass.
Except I must be on Santa’s naughty list, because who do I run into? My infuriatingly sexy high school archnemesis, Gideon Noble.
The pulsing music, red and green strobe lights, and Gideon’s bitable bottom lip make me reckless, so I drag him onto the dance floor.
And then? I take him home with me.
Gideon
If this is my second chance with Valencia, I’m not wasting it.
We’re both alone this Christmas, so we create a naughty and nice list that would make Santa twelve days of wholesome yuletide cheer, and twelve nights decking each other’s halls.
As Christmas Eve, and the end of our list, approaches, I realize that twelve days with Valencia Torres isn’t enough.
I want forever.
But does she?
*MY THOUGHTS*
I really don’t know what to say about this book. In some ways I was disappointed in this, but in other ways I still enjoyed it. I feel pretty strange about this because usually my reviews for Alexis Daria are filled with a lot more hooting and hollering lol But Idk, this one just did not do it for me.
Ok so things I did like were small things, like when they first got back together and we realized that he liked her still. A hell of a lot. And the way he was so protective of her in all the ways. I know we can take care of ourselves, but with that asshole ex he should have been lucky to breathe the same air as her. (Which brings me to something that I didn’t like. Whyyyyyyyy did you let these people pressure you into going over there?!) And I liked the fun they had while making the list.
What I didn’t care for was some of the things on that list. For some of those things it got awkward. I understand that this is a to each their own situation, but when even THEY’RE saying its awkward, maybe its not me. And like the ending?! Yeah it was hilarious when they got caught, but the staying there to talk?! I couldn’t get with it. I wanted so bad to just close it and not finish it. I have second hand embarrassment really bad, and it just felt really weird to read that lol I also wasn’t a huge fan of Valencia, but that came second to the amount of times I wanted to disappear from embarrassment while reading lol
This one didn’t really work for me, but it wasn’t because of the narrators. They did a fantastic job. The way they put emotion into their work had me caught up in the story. Idk why I wasn’t expecting this audio to have sound effects and things like that, but it was a pleasant surprise. I liked this part so much more than anything else.
And because of that, I had to pair all of this together and come up with a good median. This was cute, but not my favorite. I think it was ok for a short story, but it definitely needed some work in some places in my honest opinion.
Overall, I give this
