The Nightmare Before Kissmas

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The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch
Narrator: Ellis Evans
Series: Royals and Romance #1
Published by Macmillan Audio on October 8, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Romance
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Pages: 368
Format: Audiobook
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Red, White & Royal Blue meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a sexy, quirky rom-com where the golden-hearted Prince of Christmas falls for the totally off-limits Prince of Halloween.

Nicholas “Coal” Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR façade. Coal will do anything to escape the spectacle, including getting tangled in a drunken, supremely hot make-out session with a beautiful man behind a seedy bar one night.

But the heir to Christmas is soon commanded to do his duty: he will marry his best friend, Iris, the Easter Princess and his brother’s not-so-secret crush. A situation that has disaster written all over it.

Things go from bad to worse when a rival arrives to challenge Coal for the princess’s hand...and Coal comes face-to-face with his mysterious behind-the-bar hottie: Hex, the Prince of Halloween.

It’s a fake competition between two holiday princes who can’t keep their hands off each other over a marriage of convenience that no one wants. And it all leads to one of the sweetest, sexiest, messiest, most delightfully unforgettable love stories of the year.

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I had a great time with this audiobook! It was fun to imagine this world where the people in charge of holidays have their own community and power structure. Coal, or Nicholas Claus, is Santa’s son and can’t seem to do anything right these days. His father is pushing him into a marriage with the Easter princess but he is more interested in Hex, the Halloween prince.

Coal has struggled with things since the incident where his good deed went incredibly wrong. He is opening his eyes to some of the things his father is doing to ensure Christmas is the most powerful holiday. I cheered him on as he finally decided to take matters into his own hands and make some changes for his holiday. Hex and Coal were great together and I thought that they had fantastic chemistry with each other.

Ellis Evans does a fantastic job with this audiobook! He takes on this colorful cast of characters with apparent ease. I thought he was able to add the perfect amount of chemistry to his reading. This was my first time listening to his narration and I must say that I was quite impressed. I am certain that his performance added a lot to my overall enjoyment.

I would recommend this book to others. I found this to be a fun holiday story with enough world-building and romance to keep things very interesting. I wouldn’t hesitate to read more of this entertaining series.

I received a review copy of this audiobook from Macmillan Audio.

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