Yule Love Me on Christmas

Written by Riley Smith

Narrated by Laura Lockwood

This sweet and tender story of two women falling in love over the winter holidays is not your average Christmas romance.

Melody Bishop has just come out to her parents, and they have disinvited her to Christmas until she rejects her "unnatural urges" and agrees to marry a man. She's struggling to stay true to herself and navigate her relationship to her Christian faith in the face of her parents' disapproval and the prospect of a Christmas all alone.
When Melody's coworker crush, Aoife Winterson, invites her to spend the holiday break with the Winterson clan, Melody finds herself in the middle of a twelve-day all-out celebration... but not of Christmas. The Wintersons are Wiccan, and they observe Yule, the winter solstice. Melody has always been drawn to Aoife's self-assuredness and confidence, and Aoife's family is a wonder of warmth and generosity and affectionate teasing compared to Melody's severe upbringing. But to follow her heart, Melody will have to go against everything she has been raised to believe and find her way into a new version of her faith that has room for her true self, and Aoife's.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bryant Street Shorts
• Release date: Dec 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781094415437

Riley Smith

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Reviews for Yule Love Me on Christmas

[Cilica · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Much much better story than her story on the librarian murder solver. Here there were no gimmicks to move the story along.

[irina grisolle · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Loved it! Another home run by Riley Smith. It was a wonderful thing to learn about other traditions and ways to celebrate n be together.

[Bonn · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I like the Yule, Wiccan, Rituals and Religious aspects and beliefs in this book. They’re real, respectful and are perfectly balanced.
What I’m weary about is how one of the characters was written. I questioned her treatment of the other, leaving her totally clueless about the ordeal. I think it’s used as a plot device to invoke emotions, but I find it uncaring.

[raejhann · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

It was an easy story, more of an introduction to Wiccan 101 than a romance. Too juvenile for my fancy.

[Melissa Aldis · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

In a word awesome they say I have to use 10 words but it doesn't take that many only one awesome

[Kelly Izell · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

It was okay. It was pretty juvenile; it would have been better classified as young adult literature The introduction to Wiccan traditions was sorta interesting. The turn of the 2 major characters attraction to each other was sudden and came almost exactly halfway through the book which gave the dialogue a choppy feel.