Ben Howard's Reviews > Naughty & Nice

3.5 stars

Quinn and Jonas have some amazing chemistry. The prologue for Naughty & Nice was perfection. It did a great job of establishing our characters, the slight animosity between the new step-brothers that's actually just angst and longing with the backdrop of a really sweet and nostalgic Christmas moment.

The story proper takes place a few years later after Quinn and Jonas' parents divorce, and they are no longer step-siblings. They're reunited after not seeing each other for a while in a snowy mountain cabin for the Christmas season. A storm means they have the cabin to themselves for a bit. And while their circumstances have changed, their feelings remains. Only now there's a lot less holding them back and they have a romantic and isolated cabin to reacquaint themselves with each other.

Naughty & Nice had a really strong 2/3's, where I was loving the romance and our characters, but things started to get rocky, and my enjoyment ebbed, towards the end. Quinn's negative reaction to finding Jonas's letters just felt unreasonable.