Title: Merry Measure
Author: Lily Morton
Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited
Length: 204 Pages
Category: Holiday Romance
At a Glance: Merry Measure fulfills every single need I could demand from a holiday romance. It’s sweet and sexy, snarky and sincere, and really, truly, supremely romantic.
Rating: 4 Stars
Reviewed By: Lisa
Blurb: Arlo Wright’s introduction to his sexuality came when he saw his older brother’s best friend, Jack Cooper, in his sweaty football kit. Unfortunately, he didn’t have long to enjoy the revelation because he promptly knocked himself out on a table.
Relations between them have never really moved on from that auspicious beginning. Arlo is still clumsy, and Jack is still as handsome and unobtainable as ever.
However, things look like they’re starting to change when Arlo finds himself sharing a room with Jack while on holiday in Amsterdam at Christmas. Will the festive spirit finally move them towards each other, or is Arlo just banging his head against a wall this time?
Review: There are few authors who can simultaneously tickle the funny bone and tug at the heartstrings quite like Lily Morton, so who better to pen a warm and lovely and playful Christmas romance? I’m shocked this is her first, to be quite honest, and hope it won’t be the last.
Using the setting to its best effect, Morton offers up the canals, the museums, the overall charm, and the snowy landscapes of Amsterdam at Christmastime as the stage for this utterly delightful love story. Arlo Wright’s older brother, Tom, plays unwitting host to the romance blossoming between Arlo and Tom’s best friend, Jack Cooper, when Tom invites friends and family along on a getaway to play witness to his own romantic plans for his boyfriend, Bee. Complications abound—the course of true love never does run smooth, after all, so I expected nothing less. Not to mention that all the chaos seems par for the course for the Wright family—but the fun truly begins when Arlo and Jack find themselves, through no fault of their own, or planning on their parts, sharing a hotel room.
The close proximity trope and the dual POV are both used to their fullest potential as Arlo and Jack skirt privately around the fact that they’re attracted to each other, but they also fear getting swept up in the romance of the city and acting impulsively, for the simple reason that they don’t want to ruin their current friendship, nor are they sure what sort of reaction they’d get from Tom. Why risk everything for a maybe? Well, the truth that they’re opposite sides of the same coin, and they complement each other like coffee and cream, becomes more obvious the longer they spend in each other’s company. If there were ever two people who belonged together, opposites though they may be, it’s Arlo and Jack.
Merry Measure fulfills every single need I could demand from a holiday romance. Sweet and sexy, snarky and sincere, and really, truly, supremely romantic, this story forgoes the serious angst and drama and aims square for the heart.
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