Del Fantasma: Winter Break by Dawn Montgomery

Del Fantasma: Winter Break by Dawn Montgomery
Publisher: Aspen Mountain Press
Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal, Holiday, Christmas
Length: Short Story (56 pgs)
Other: BDSM, M/F, Ice Play
Rating: 3.5 Cherries
Review by Phlox

Christmas alone isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and for adult toy QA tech, Nicollete Snow a little non-silicone action at the Del Fantasma is just the ticket. Who shows up a little ticked off and delicious riding a sweet bike but Jack Frost, ready to cause a little mischief. What happens when Old Man Winter takes a holiday?

We’re all familiar with anthropomorphic representations: the Grim Reaper personifying death, the old, bearded Father Time, but how often do you get to run into one who happens to be a smoking-hot, leather clad bad boy? This is the rather fun premise to Winter Break, in which Jack Frost gets to play the sexy, tortured hero. Del Fantasma – for those who might not have run across it – is an Aspen Mountain creation where authors get to play with paranormal stories centered around or originating in the vampire-owned bar of that name in Vista Loma, California. Some are full length stories and some shorter pieces with a drink name in the title (see “A Slow, Fuzzy Screw’ for example.) The drink recipe is at the end of the book.

This is a holiday release, so one expects light and fun, which Ms. Montgomery delivers with a heroine who does QA for adult toys at the North Pole and carries a bottomless purse reminiscent of the old D&D Bag of Holding. Hers is mainly for a plethora of cookies, good for whatever might ail you. If both of you will find cheap sildenafil 100mg something to begin working on together, it may boost the passion inside your relationship. It does this by relaxing the muscles, allowing them to contract and result in a stronger erection. tadalafil online canada One can therefore imagine how many mails pfizer viagra samples it takes for a spammer to sustain. It is approved by the FDA; these prescriptions can be tremendous http://foea.org/about/publications/ sildenafil online uk when medical insurance can’t include the entire cost. I did enjoy the characters and the erotic scenes are white-hot and imaginative since Jack can do all sorts of fun things with wind and ice. The issues, unfortunately, come from this being a holiday release as well, most likely written on a schedule and edited too quickly to get it released in time. The text is peppered with errors, incomplete sentences and syntax oddities. (‘Sweat-slickened blonde hair’? And for a male at that?) There are some plot holes that left me with a feeling of having missed something (we never get a good explanation of who Nicolette really is, we’re not entirely sure what Jack has done to unbalance the weather patterns, and the resolution is left a bit vague.)

Taken altogether, though, it’s a fun, fast read, well steeped in the sentiments of the season. It is, after all, a story about two lonely people, (even if one is a demigod) who need to learn to trust and to recognize they need one another. In this, Ms. Montgomery succeeds with humor and abundant imagination.

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