Book Review: Big Nick Energy

Happy Friday! I can’t believe Christmas is almost here. I’ve got 2 more Christmas reads to complete before next weekend and I’m positive I’ll have them done in time. In the meantime, I have another Christmas romance review to share with you today. I read Big Nick Energy by Morgan Elizabeth and absolutely loved it. It might be my favorite Christmas read this year.

Back in July when I was doing a Christmas in July read, I read Morgan Elizabeth’s Tis the Season for Revenge and loved it. But, spoiler alert, I loved this one more! In Tis the Season for Revenge, readers were introduced to Shae – a minor character. She was a woman with two young daughters who was in the middle of divorcing an abusive husband. Damien was her lawyer and Abbie was helping her with clothes and makeup to make her feel good about herself for her court dates.

Fast forward a year and Shae is divorced and burning the candle from both ends trying to balance work and single motherhood. When she lets Abbie convince her to go on a dating app and she actually goes on a date with a guy named Connor who is 11 years younger than her (she’s 35). They don’t connect romantically, but become great friends. When Thanksgiving rolls around, he invites her to his dad’s ranch for dinner because he doesn’t want her and the girls to be alone. There Shae meets Connor’s dad, Nick. When talking to Shae’s daughters about Christmas he brings up Elf on the Shelf, which gets the girls really excited. The problem is Shae had no intentions of having an elf because that’s one more thing for her to stress about. Feeling immediately guilty, Nick vows to make it right and not burden Shae with the elf. He drives an hour every night to their house to move the elf and over time, Shae and him get to know each other and she begins to trust him enough to let her guard down. Will she ever be ready to let him in completely?

I loved this book so much! The storyline was so good and I loved Shae, Nick, and her girls Ruby and Harper. The slow burn was perfect and the spice payoff was amazing. I loved following Shae’s journey and watching as she slowly let Nick in and let him love her the way she deserved. I didn’t want the book to end!

While I’m not agains the ex-boyfriend’s dad or age gap trope, I appreciated that this book didn’t really fit those tropes even though that’s what it seems like. Connor isn’t really Shae’s ex as they went on one date and then just become really good friends. And you’d think Nick being Connor’s dad would mean it’s a big age gap, but since Shae was older than Connor and Nick was a teen dad the gap isn’t that large. Shae is 35 and Nick is 42. The tropes don’t really bother me, but I think the story was even better this way!

Anyway, I loved this book and I think it might be my favorite Christmas read this year!

Read this if you want a spicy Christmas romcom with the slow burn and single mom tropes. Oh yeah and it’s a bit of a cowboy romance too!

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