Wreck My Plans: A Small Town Holiday Romance by Jillian Meadows

"You are not the person people find on their way to meet someone else. You are the whole damn package, Lena, and anyone would be lucky to love you and take care of you."

Gavin, page 129, "Wreck My Plans: A Small Town Holiday Romance" Jillian Meadows

Lena’s plans are simple. Surprise her family for Christmas, don’t tell them she lost her job, and most importantly, spend the week relaxing with the people she cares about.

But when she arrives in Juniper, she discovers she’s not the only unexpected guest this year. Her brother’s best friend is back after disappearing three years ago without a word. Gavin has the kind of charm Lena has always been drawn to, but even though she’s dying to question him about why he left, he’s the kind of temptation she needs to stay far away from.

Gavin didn’t see this coming. His job is to design blueprints and build strategies for dealing with the unexpected, but he didn’t have a strategy for the possibility of seeing Lena again. He’s been dreaming of her since he left, but giving in to his feelings would risk the only home he’s ever known.

New plan: try to be friends again. Just friends.

But as the pieces fall into place about why Gavin left, staying friends is the last thing on their minds, and all the plans they’ve made might end up completely wrecked.

Wreck My Plans is a sweet and spicy age-gap, brother’s best friend romance about finding yourself worthy of love. It features a quiet architect who only wears black, a sassy artist who’s full of colour, a small town of holiday fun, and enough swoon and steam to keep you toasty this winter.

This was a good Christmas novel with all the Christmas feeling.

It was a simple story about two people being in love for the past 10 years and at some point they give into each other only for one night.

Until that one night extends and that one of them decides to flee, like the other did a couple of years ago.

When they both realise that they are actually in love, it is so amazing as they rush towards each other.

I did enjoy the epilogue of this book as it shows that they both decide to adopt one of the orphans that we meet earlier in the book and Lena is expecting a baby.

Both characters were beautifully written and each of them each other's opposite. Which makes it even better as it is an opposite-attracts trope. But it is even more.

However, I would not recommend it to those who don't like a full on Christmas cheesy romance.

Love,

Manon