HOLIDAY REVIEW: Exit Through the Gift Shop -2018 Advent Calendar Warmest Wishes- Kim Fielding

Title: Exit Through the Gift Shop
Series: 2018 Advent Calendar Warmest Wishes
Author: Kim Fielding
Genre: Christmas, Holiday, Short Reads ,MMRomance
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: Dec 1, 2018
Format: Kndle
Pages: 44
Source: Amazon

Alex’s traditional family Christmas Compromise means spending the holiday at a second-rate theme park, Poseidon’s Planet, but Alex doesn’t mind. He enjoys the rides and the company of his family, and it’s a good break from his going-nowhere existence back in Indiana. Then he meets a certain sexy employee in a pirate costume, and Alex’s vacation gets even better. But thrill rides last only a short time, and sooner or later everyone has to return to real life. Alex long ago gave up on marrying a handsome prince—will he have to give up on his pirate as well?

A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2018 Advent Calendar "Warmest Wishes."

Review By Ulysses Dietz

Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team

Short, sweet, perfectly baked. Alex is on his family’s annual Christmas trip together, this time in Florida to escape the harsh Indiana winter. By chance he meets a handsome pirate in one of the gift shops of the B-list theme park where his family’s holiday is being spent. Alex, who is lonely and bored with his job, is instantly smitten with Rory, who not only loves his job but has been doing it since he was a teenager. Now, while this trope can cause scoffing among the cynical and unromantic, Kim Fielding makes it into a leap of faith that makes absolute sense in the context she builds with Rory’s backstory.

The story is not epic, but the idea that this kind of thing can happen is as epic as anything, and in the hands of this gifted author it feels nothing short of inevitable. Enjoy this with a gingerbread cookie and a cup of hot chocolate, and I guarantee you’ll have tears in your eyes.