Friday, November 21, 2025

Cat's Review of Noel I Won't by DJ Jamison @author_dj_jamison @neonrainbowarcreviews @tammystwocents X- @DJ_Jamison_ @TTCBooksandmore

Will I give my heart away this holiday season? Noel, I won't.

When my first head chef gig implodes and I find out my dad has a health crisis, I go home for the holidays.

Only to find the lovable farmboy next door has moved in.

He's helping my parents run our family's Christmas tree farm. Has moved into my house. Has seemingly *replaced* me.

He may be gorgeous and a hard worker and even sweet when he wants to be, but I can't step aside for him. Can't let my parents continue to struggle with the farm.

Not even when we find new life for the farm--and for me as a chef.

Not even when Hopper warms my bed every night.

I might be falling in love--with Hopper, with my hometown, with a life I could never envision when I was eighteen and desperate to leave. But I vowed long ago that I'd never be happy in small-town Nebraska.

But when Hopper asks me not to leave him, what can I say except...

Noel I Won't.

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Cat gives this book 5 Meows with a 4 purr heat index...

Things I love about this in no particular order.

1. Enemies to lovers (kind of)

2. Big misunderstanding on both parts.

3. Found family

4. Coming home

5. It's a Christmas story with all the feels!

Last but not least seeing characters from Granville and Riverton, Christmas Falls (lots of Easter eggs)

And there's a cute dog.

Noel is a big chef in Chicago, but his career is taking a nosedive, then he finds out his dad had heart problems they didn't call and the guy he hates most in town is helping them on their tree farm. The town holds bad memories for him, but he needs to help his parents and finds the farm on a bad way. And Hopper more than helping. he's being the son he isn't.

I loved watching Noel help and the farm transforming back to its glory and he doesn't quite realize at first his importance.

It's full of fabulous characters, a great story line, fun and spicy times. Oh, something I didn't mention I love is that there's a great role reversal in the spicy area. The biggest man is a dedicated bottom that likes a bossy top, and this is handled Fabulously without actually being BDSM.

I highly recommend this holiday read this year!

DJ Jamison writes romances about everyday life and extraordinary love featuring a variety of queer characters, from gay to bisexual to asexual. DJ grew up in the Midwest in a working-class family, and those influences can be found in her writing through characters coping with real-life problems: money troubles, workplace drama, family conflicts and, of course, falling in love. DJ spent more than a decade in the newspaper industry before chasing her first dream to write fiction. She spent a lifetime reading before that and continues to avidly devour her fellow authors’ books each night. She lives in Kansas with her husband, two sons, one snake, and a sadistic cat named Birdie.

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