Reviewed by Linda on
One Snowy Night is a short novella in the Heartbreaker Bay series, featuring Rory and Max, and there is hotness, romance, cold, ice and doubts from a past event coming to the surface.
While I enjoyed One Snowy Night, I was sad it was so short, as I think Rory and Max could hold up a full length novel with their story. And because it was short, only the span of a night and morning, and it was spent on the road, I missed all their friends! One of the things I love the most in a Shalvis story is the amazing friendships and funny banter.
It was clear in the prior Heartbreaker Bay novels that Max and Rory had chemistry, what wasn't clear, however was that they had history. Because they both kept that to themselves, thinking the other had done something close to unforgivable. When they had to spend time together in the car, they were finally able to discuss what had happened years earlier, and the consequences which they still felt in the present.
If you're not familiar with this series, I think you'd be confused with this novealla, as the character development is slight. But because I had already met Rory and Max, I did know some of their quirks, so I was good to go. Written in third person present tense, the omniscient narrator worked well for me, as there were plenty of dialogues as well.
As always when their gazes locked, Max's was a disconcerting mix of heat and... something else that she couldn't quite figure out, as he was good at hiding when he wanted to be. She never quite knew how to take the heat because it seemed reluctant. He was attracted to her but didn't want to be.
As she passed through, their bodies brushed together, his hard as stone and yet somehow also deliciously warm, and hers... softened. There was no other word for it.
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- 5 October, 2016: Finished reading
- 5 October, 2016: Reviewed