Wrapped
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- Rachel Kane (Écrivain)
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If you’d told me that by the end of the week, I’d be losing my virginity to a Christmas elf who lived in an abandoned school bus just outside of town, I would’ve said—
Wait. Let me start over. There is no possible way anyone would ever tell me that.
Do I need to list the objections for you? Do I really?
Put it this way: It’s not the sort of thing I do.
Then again, I’m not sure I would’ve believed it either, if you’d told me I’d be spending my day in the Corinth Mall, that hotbed of sparkling Christmas decorations and seasonal cheer, where the chances of meeting such an elf were much higher. Going to the mall to buy presents for my family? Not the sort of thing I do.
Yet here I was, and my brother Theo was insistent that I should get out and do my shopping, instead of doing it all online.
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[Lecture VO]
Cette lecture a été laborieuse... J'ai trouvé ce livre beaucoup trop long, ça traîne dans la longueur avec des répétitions incessantes des pensées des personnages. J'ai eu l'impression de tourner en rond !
Je ne m'attendais pas à ça avec ce livre, le côté Noël n'est pas vraiment très présent. Aussi, ce n'est pas une romance légère et sans prise de tête. Les personnages ont des cheminements de pensées complexes et tordus qui m'ont torturé le cerveau et déprimée.
Je n'ai pas accroché aux personnages, autant les principaux que secondaires (Théo et Wendy sont particulièrement agaçants).
D'autre part, je n'ai pas du tout aimé la narration. Il y a une alternance des deux POV, un à la première personne et un à la troisième. C'est très perturbant. Mais la narration en elle-même n'est pas non plus ce que je préfère, avec le narrateur qui s'adresse au lecteur.
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A Christmas Gay Romance.
I didn't mean to lose my virginity to a sexy mall Christmas elf...but hey, 'tis the season.
Val: A month ago, I was a powerful CEO at the head of my family's fortune. All I cared about was money. Now that my company is destroyed, I've got millions of dollars in the bank and nothing but free time ahead of me. There's a whole world outside the boardroom that I've never experienced, but I don't know what to do with myself, other than spend money on things I don't need. I'm not looking for love, I'm definitely not looking for sex, I'm just want something meaningful back in my life...and then I meet Charlie, an elf at Santa's Village at the mall. He's so laid back, more relaxed than I've ever been, and there's something about him--his body, his self-assurance, his heart--that keeps me coming back for more.
Charlie: When everybody's got high expectations for you, sometimes you have to escape. That's why I'm a pool boy during the summer, a Christmas elf during the winter, and not interested in anything more complicated than that. But this Christmas, I need something to care about. That something might just be Val. He's the first person I've ever met who doesn't demand anything from me, who lets me be in control. But when he finds out why I need that control, why I'm so afraid to let him give me anything, will my secrets push him away? Will he truly accept me? Can this be more than just a Christmas fling?
WRAPPED is a 70,000-word emotional snowstorm of first-time gay romantic comedy, with big feels, steamy angst, letters to Santa, a stolen bicycle, and a holiday HEA!
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