Good Elf Gone Wrong by Alina Jacobs

When you catch your fiancé cheating on you with your sister on Christmas Eve, the elf hat comes off.
I’ve always been the good girl—the anti Scrooge—the one who sacrifices for her guests, bakes cookies for her neighbors, and stays late after a party to clean up.
I don’t mind. I like being on the nice list.

I kept smiling when I caught my fiancé coming down my sister’s chimney on Christmas Eve.
I gave polite congratulations when they got engaged on Christmas morning.
And I even offered to help decorate for their holiday wedding despite the fact that was supposed to be my dream wedding.

But when my sister cuts up our great-grandmother’s one-hundred-year-old wedding dress and turns it into a skank show, even though that was the dress I was going to wear on my wedding day?
Well, this elf is torching down the North Pole.

And what better way to get revenge than giving those cheaters a taste of their own medicine?
This good elf is bringing the bad boy home for Christmas.
Hudson is a six-foot-five, coldhearted, tattooed bad elf with a perpetual sneer and washboard abs.
He’s exactly my sister’s type.
And he’s going to help me nuke her wedding from orbit on the night before Christmas.

What he is not supposed to do is grab my ass in the kitchen while I bake gingerbread.
Or crawl in my bed half naked.
And he’s definitely not supposed to smirk and tell me to commit to our fake relationship right before he goes down on me.

Guess there’s a reason the good elves stay far away from the bad.

My Review

Gracie loves Christmas, her favorite holiday with great memories, but it is starting out interesting this year. Her grandma is funny, and her taste in holiday movies may make you gasp. It was the worst Christmas Eve ever, and her family is a piece of work.

Oh, but that was just the prologue. We time jump back two weeks. Gracie may be a sweetheart, but she acts like a doormat for her ridiculous family members. I feel bad for her.

Hudson is a bad boy; he is rough, challenging, and bad-mannered, but he is perfect for her plans. His ulterior motives have been announced. However, this guy will make an epic disaster for this family.

This book doesn’t romance the holiday traditions; instead, it turns them on their heads and knocks them around a little. Gracie’s family is dysfunctional at best. Hudson has his own side agenda, and of course, the hormones ramp up on this fake relationship as well. But it certainly has lots of holiday vibes, and Christmas feels.

The story lives up to the comedy part with outlandish things that you can’t help but chuckle at. This book gets sizzling hot as this fake relationship progresses into not-so-fake. Gracie is a hot mess, but she finally gets that backbone, and man, is she stubborn.

Of course, everything all blows up on Christmas, but it is pretty epic. I love the groveling, bad boy boy on his knees for his girl. This book ends sweet and a hot disaster. But Gracie’s and Hudson’s story is a beautiful, sizzling, hot holiday romance.

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