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The Twelve Days of Christian by Caroline Corvin Review

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I had the pleasure of being on Caroline Corvin’s Street Team to promote this book in the run-up to her next book in this series. It has been so fun not only reading this book, but also participating and seeing all the promo posts over on Instagram.

*I was provided a copy to read for this opportunity and review.

Image Credit: @Ollie_Creates, Caroline Corvin, Hayling Bookstorm

Book cover for The Twelve Days of Christian by Caroline Corvin. The background is a light teal blue. There are Christmas trees with lights flanking the two main characters on either side. The two main characters are sitting on the floor facing each other. The MMC is holding a guitar and wearing a grey button up shirt, blue jeans, & brown boots. He has medium long hair and a beard. He has sleeve tattoos on his arm. He is looking at the FMC and playing the guitar. The FMC is wearing a red off-the-shoulder dress. She has long brown hair. She is looking at the MMC and her hands are placed on his thigh. The writing is in white.

Synopsis

Three years of wanting her. Twelve days to win her. One chance at a Christmas miracle. (Excerpt from Hayling Bookstorm)

Christian Steele is a famous rock star guitarist, and while on break for the holidays and before the next tour, he finds himself competing on Wild For the Win to help raise money for a struggling local London animal shelter. A scandal threatens his career, and he finds himself running to the one place that is safe for him at the moment. His bandmate’s/best friend’s home, where he finds the woman he’s been yearning after for years, Haley Templeton.

Said local London animal shelter is where Haley works, and she was hoping that Christian would win the competition show so the prize money could go towards keeping it open. Imagine her surprise when she finds Christian at her door. She has her misconceptions of who Christian is, but in the span of 12 days, she learns that there is more than meets the eye.

Content Warnings

There is mention of a device used in hunting animals that is inhumane.

Character art of Christian Steele, the MMC of The Twelve Days of Christian. He is standing with his legs hip width apart. His hands are in his pockets. He is wearing a grey button down shirt with the top button undone. His sleeves are rolled up just enough to see his tattoos peeking through. He is wearing blue jeans and brown boots. His hair is medium long and has a beard. Character art of Haley Templeton, the FMC of The Twelve Days of Christian. She is standing with her left leg out a little, like she is posing for a picture. She is wearing Christmas pajamas. The top is long sleeved, red with 'Let it Snow' written on it. The bottoms are green flannel. She is wearing a red antlers headband and red slippers. Her hair is brown and long.

Tropes

Christmas Romance

Forbidden Love

Brother’s Best Friend/Band Mate

Forced Proximity

Rock Star

Celebrity

Rescue Dogs

Spice Level

Open Door 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Review

This is only my second book from Caroline Corvin, but she is fast becoming my favorite author. Ma’am! You really know how to write a man who yearns. I love a man who yearns, and you nailed it on the head. Christian was the sweetest, and he didn’t let anything from his past or anything that was happening during the span of the twelve days tarnish his time with Haley. I loved the part towards the end (minor spoiler) where a certain movie (ahem! The Idea of You) was mentioned. I cackled at that part (🤣), especially as readers, we know the whole story before the audience in this scene knows what the truth is.

The fact that this story involves dogs is the best part. As mentioned above, Haley works at an animal shelter/vet’s office as a vet nurse and is very passionate about pet adoption and fostering. As an animal lover myself, I love it when a book involves them. In my humble opinion, there are not enough of them out there. Or, I just haven’t read enough of them 😂 Tully and Mularkey (named after, you guessed it, Tully & Kate from Firefly Lane) were some of the funniest characters in this book, and Caroline did such a great job of describing them that I could picture them in my head.

This book was just a fun good time 😊

Character art of one of the dogs from the book The Twelve Days of Christian. She is a husky. She is wearing a green sweater with a red trim collar and sleeves. There is a Christmas tree on the sweater. She is sitting down. Character art of one of the dogs in The Twelve Days of Christian. She is sitting down and is a pit bull. Her coloring is tan and white. She is wearing a red checkered sweater with green trimmed collar and sleeves.

This book is currently available and has already been released. You can access it through Kindle Unlimited or grab it here.

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