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You had me at: Holiday Road Trip!

Aaaaaw, this melted my grinch-y heart and just in time for the holidays.

Charlie has to get home for Christmas. He HAS to. Because as surreal as it sounds, if he doesn't, he just knows something awful will happen to his little sister again. He dreamt about it. And his little girl sure as hell had enough bad things happen to her for a lifetime or three. But things don't go as planned, and before he knows it, he's in a car with Gavin freaking Bloomberg. The guy who broke his heart and never even apologized for it. But the years of resentment weren't onesided, and for good reasons. Naturally, the journey promises to be straining and tense for both guys. Long suppressed feelings surfacing don't exactly make things easier.

This was one hell of a wonderful ride! I loved both MCs, their interactions and their inner struggles. It was beautiful to watch how they worked through their issues, cleared up past misunderstandings and soothed hurts they didn't even know they still had. Keira Andrews did a wonderful job with this holiday story. It has just the right amount of sweetness, bitterness and hurt to make it a great comfort read for lonely days. Sure, it was coated in an adequate amount of sugar, but it wasn't too sweet for my taste. Especially because things weren't automatically awesome just because the two fell into bed together. Family, friends, past, present, future - nothing was too easy, but also not too angsty.

Like I said, the right amount of everything to make it one of my favorite holiday reads 2015.

I've been watching what is happening with Amazon and Hachette and haven't said anything until now. I admit that I use Amazon to purchase paper books and ebooks mainly because I keep getting Amazon gift cards and because I own a Kindle. I knew that Amazon had a history of things like what they are now doing with Hachette and quite frankly I ignored it. Now when they are doing this to Hachette, quite possibly the publisher (and its imprints) that I read the most titles from, I just can't ignore or excuse their behavior anymore.

I have decided now to stop purchasing books and ebooks from Amazon. I still have some gift cards left and I don't want to waste them so I will be using them and then I am done getting books from Amazon (and I'll make sure to tell others to get me gift cards from other book retailers).

I have been looking to pre-order The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) and I will now be looking to my local bookstores or online at Barnes & Noble or Walmart. I know that my purchases are a tiny, tiny drop in Amazon's profits but with all that they have done and are doing I just can't support them anymore.

All the awards!!! All the awards for this book!! Go, buy it, read it, rejoice. 

I still can't write a coherent review for this book. I wish I could give it more stars.

This book. This book!! It gutted me, gleefully ripped out and stomped on my heart, and then with a 'there, there' pat on the head, gave me a wee bit of happiness at the end. Wee meaning teeny-tiny, barely enough to stop me from drowning in my own tears.

That's all I have to say about that.