SPORTOCHICK’S MUSINGS: The author does a great job of matching the tensions with resolutions that warms the heart creating a feel good ending.

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You Make It Feel like Christmas

by Sophie Sullivan

Pub Date Sep 23 2025 |
St. Martin’s Press | St. Martin’s Griffin

DESCRIPTION

All bets are off when a single-minded photographer and a professional hockey player are forced to spend a week together on his sister’s Christmas tree farm, perfect for fans of Jenny Holiday and Maggie Knox.

Maisie Smart doesn’t look back. Not on the choice she made to be a photographer, and not on the one-night stand she had six months ago. But sleeping with a professional hockey player who bolted the morning after is a whole new level of embarrassing. Now she’s about to spend the week at Tickle Tree Farms with her family this Christmas—and then the universe throws a Grinch in her festive plans.

Nick King is a mess. After a significant injury benches him, he has more time to dwell on his anxieties and the one-night stand he can’t get out of his head. With the holidays around the corner, he figures visiting his sister and nephew at their Christmas tree farm will be a good way to sort himself out. That’s impossible when he learns Maisie is there, still beautiful and justifiably angry about the way he left. But Christmas is the time for second chances, and the forced proximity may help Nick and Maisie unwrap feelings neither of them can walk away from twice.

REVIEW

This is a delightful Christmas love story that will entertain the reader. Maisie Smart and her family are fun, competitive, and loving. Not all things are perfect though, which adds to a great read.

What I like about this storyline is that it is not all sugar and spice because Maisie and Nick are at odds and Maisie has some family issues that are stealing her joy. The author does a great job of matching the tensions with resolutions that warms the heart, creating a feel-good ending.

One of the best parts of the book is how the author shows vulnerability, compassion, and forgiveness. I give this book 4 STARS.

I received this book for free from Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press | St. Martin’s Griffin in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

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