Book Review – ‘Scrooge-ish’ by L.B. Dunbar

‘Scrooge-ish’ by L.B. Dunbar
Series: Holiday Hotties
Published: November 22, 2022
Genre: Romance, Holiday Romance
Format: e-book
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Stars: ⭐⭐ ½

Synopsis

I hate Christmas.
I don’t know who thought every female must love shopping, wrapping, baking, and hosting, but I’m missing the memo. On top of that, I manage a top-end department store. Sprinkle in the fact I’ll be turning forty during this holiday season, and my life is a Christmas cookie recipe gone wrong.

And every year I become a little more Scrooge-ish.

But the spirit of the most wonderful time of the year (insert sarcasm) seems to have a plan for me and my midlife crisis attitude.

First, my past returns when I attend a high school reunion happy hour and run into that boy—the one I had a summer fling with after graduation and before college—then promptly ghosted me.

The torture continues because that boy is now a man, worldly and wise and sexier than I remember. And he invites me to attend a holiday work party with him.

Which leads to my discovery that there is a lot more to this forty, fine, former NFL quarterback, now fireman, like being a single father to the sweetest little girl, putting me at risk of falling for both of them.

However, I have my reasons not to believe in love and the happiest time of the year. And the first twenty-five days of December tests all my strength.

Just what the Dicken is happening? Charles himself might approve of this plot.
Even I’m a little curious to see how it all plays out.

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With the past behind her and the future uncertain, can Eva Nazar accept that the present is a gift and love is the greatest treasure we receive even if it isn’t always wrapped in pretty paper with a perfect bow on top?

My Thoughts

This holiday season is here, and I was looking for a new book to go with this Holiday season. I am sad to say that Scrooge-ish by L.B. Dunbar was not that book. When I started the book, I was excited and was really enjoying the story that was being told. I really like that, the characters were in their 40s, and you don’t see a lot of books like that. The only problem is that instead of learning from her past and trying to grow, the female main character seemed stuck and not able to grow. And after seeing it affect her over and over again when getting to 25% of the book, I literally was sitting there going not again. She was really feeling more like a teenager and not an adult in her 40s. That is a character that makes it hard to root for and want to see something go well for.

If you want a book with spice, I have to say that Scrooge-ish is that book. This book had the spice, but at a certain point, it almost felt like the spice was put in just to say the book had spice. After a while of that, I really was just getting annoyed with it because it felt like more effort was put into putting in a bunch of spice instead of character growth.

For me to say this is a book to read is really hard for me to do. I would say maybe put it on your TBR, but you don’t need to read it right away. Scrooge-ish is getting two and a half stars for a rating, and this is showing that Santa could have kept this book at the North Pole. With the spice in this book, it is getting three chili peppers.

Scrooge-ish is out now, and if you have Kindle Unlimited, it is included in your membership.

I would like to thank NetGalley for the ARC Copy of this book. Getting the ARC Copy did not influence my thoughts on the book as they are all my own.

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