Gingerbread Spiced Daddy
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- Leona Windwalker (Écrivain)
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I stared at the assignment sheet, my heart sinking. Candy cane patrol monitor! I known after the last fiasco that I was going to be assigned to the general labor pool again, but this…No, no, no…I rubbed my eyes, hoping the words would change. Fuck! They were still there.
“Bauble,” Sparkle said, “You can stare at it all day but all you’re going to do is be late!”
I turned a pleading look her way. “But it’s in the human world! Don’t you remember the last time I was there?”
Sparkle Shinystar was having none of it. “Bauble Lightstring, that was seventy-five years ago and you were barely out of school! You don’t look like a young human teenager anymore, so they are not going to pick you up for truancy!” She put her hands on her hips. “It’s a month long assignment and you start today, so march your tinsely butt down to transportation and get your snow globe!” Her eyes narrowed. “Or do I have to mark you down for some Krampus points?“
Now that got my feet moving. No way did I want any Krampus points. Get enough of those and the Department of Naughty or Nice rewarded you with the really crap assignments nobody wanted. Stuff like being the Santa’s stand-in at human middle school Christmas dances and call center office parties. No thank you! Candy cane monitor might not be a plum assignment, but it was a much preferable one.
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[Lecture VO]
OK... Je ne sais pas trop ce que je viens de lire là. Ce livre est une catastrophe à mon avis.
Déjà, il manque sérieusement d'une relecture ou d'édition. Le nombre de coquilles est aberrant et vraiment très gênant à la lecture. Des mots mal écrits, des mots avec des lettres au mauvais endroit, des mots qui manquent, etc. Pour un livre de moins de 70 pages c'est quand même fou qu'il y ai autant de coquilles !
Ensuite, l'univers est très mal développé. On nous balance des tonnes de termes provenant de l'univers des Elfes et du Père-Noël, mais rien n'est expliqué concrètement. On doit soit deviner soit être aussi perdu que Cliff, le personnage humain.
Le scénario est du n'importe quoi et part dans tous les sens de l'absurdité. Le principe des êtres destinés à être ensemble, je ne suis pas contre mais là c'est bien trop précipité. L'insta-love et l'insta-lust gâchent complètement l'histoire car il y a zéro développement de la relation. Tout est TRÈS précité et ils sont liés avant même d'avoir eu une seule discussion sérieuse sur le sujet ! Et Cliff accepte tous ça bien trop rapidement et facilement, ce n'est pas réaliste.
Je n'ai pas réussi à m'attacher aux personnages non plus, car ils sont bien trop superficiels dans l'histoire, pas assez développés.
Je n'aime pas le BDSM, alors j'ai zappé la scène de sexe, mais ça c'est un goût personnel.
L'écriture est également étrange, trop brouillon.
C'est dommage, car je trouvais que le principe de l'univers était sympa mais ça n'a pas du tout été maîtrisé par l'auteur.
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Bauble
I should have seen this coming. I’ve screwed up in every single department they put me to work in back at the Pole. Assigned to the general labor pool to do whatever grunt work of the day that’s needed, I was just handed the joy of going into the human world to serve as a candy cane patrol monitor at a shopping mall Santa’s grotto for the whole of this holiday season. It’s depressing as all get out, seeing all of those loved up couples and happy families enjoying the festive atmosphere while I go back to the crappy motel room I share with another failure of an elf. Is it too much to ask to have someone of my own to cuddle up with in front of a roaring fire and have sexy times with next to the Christmas tree? That’s when I see him, a breathcatchingly handsome man standing there in line, holding his kid’s hand, naturally. Still, I can dream, right? He looks just like my ideal notion of the perfect Daddy.
Cliff
I don’t know how I let myself get talked into taking my niece Laurette to go see Santa. Okay, yes, I do. I made the mistake of telling my sister that I was going out to do some personal Christmas shopping, pick up the gift baskets my boss ordered for our department heads, and to order the decorated giant cookie for the staff Christmas party. As soon as she realized I would be stopping at the mall, that was all she wrote. So, here I am, standing in line wearing the Santa hat Laurette insisted I wear, wondering just what the hell that guy in the elf costume handing out candy canes to the kids as they leave is staring at. He better not be some weirdo thinking about trying to get Laurette alone later or snatching her from the parking lot or something. No, wait, it's me he's looking at. I know I look ridiculous in this hat and it doesn’t go with my leather jeans and bike jacket but he looks pretty stupid too in those small shorts, striped tights, and let’s not forget his elf hat which has bells on it. Bells!
Gingerbread Spiced Daddy is a Christmas romance following one Winter Elf fresh from the North Pole as he finds his HEA in the human world over the holiday season thanks to a little magic called love.
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