Dashing Through the No by Tara Sivec
Releasing: Week of Thanksgiving
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
“Dashing Through the No” by Tara Sivec is a Hilariously Offbeat Christmas Romantic Comedy
What you need to know about “Dashing Through The No”:
✔ Set in Summersweet Island and the Redinger House, West Virginia
✔ Christmas Romance
✔ Complete stand-alone
✔ Fiery Tess Powell
✔ Hot caddy Bodhi Prescott
✔ Hilarious
✔ Book 3 of Summersweet Island series
Bodhi and Tess from the Summersweet Island series “Kiss My Putt” and “A Swing and A Mishap” have been a couple for a while, unfortunately Bodhi keeps proposing to Tess in the midst of their post-sex bliss which makes Tess not quite take him very seriously. At the beginning of the book we get Bodhi’s surprising backstory which was absolutely wonderful and provides some of the dramatic push going forward for our two lovebirds.
This Christmas season, semi-serious arsonist Tess is feeling a little more “fiery” than usual so Bodhi decides to take her to the Redinger House in West Virginia for a few days.
The Redinger House is the scene of one of Tara Sivec’s previous Christmas books “Christmas Cliche” which is inhabited by one of my favorite side characters, the nutty, insanely rich Millie who shows up here as one of Bodhi’s oldest friends.
Bodhi was always denied a traditional Christmas because of his upbringing and Tess is feeling very Grinch-y so things aren’t looking good for a bit, but with the magic of the Redinger House and the irrepressible Millie, perhaps Bodhi will finally get a Christmas like he always saw on TV when he was a kid.
“Dashing Through The No” by Tara Sivec is a hilariously off-beat, engagingly endearing, completely crazy Christmas romantic comedy that will get you in the mood…for the Holidays.
Plot Summary
‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through Summersweet,
Tess Powell was annoyed and wanted to retreat.
With a BIC in her hand and a frown on her face,
everyone knew she needed a break from this place.
Wanting the holiday to be nothing but the best,
Bodhi took his girlfriend to the mountains to rest.
While visions of fire happily danced in Tess’s head,
soon she would see she had everything to dread.
Crying kids, singing hippos, and a stalker with a van,
definitely wasn’t part of Bodhi’s evacuation plan.
But all he wanted for Christmas was for her to say yes,
to the question he kept asking with zero finesse.
With some help from new friends and their holiday cheer,
Tess and Bodhi get much more
than they asked Santa for this year.
WRITING STYLE: 5/5
PLOT: 4/5
WORLD-BUILDING: 5/5
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: 4/5
ROMANCE: 4/5
HEAT: 5/5
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Please check out more of Tara Sivec’s books in the series here and here.