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Home for a Christmas Wish: A Holiday Harem Novel
The holiday season is supposed to be a jubilant time but for Ray Adler the holiday season is anything but.
Following a failed relationship, losing his job and his apartment, Ray has no choice but to move back in with his parents. It is only after a chance meeting with a homeless man that he is set on a path that will take him into an unseen world within his hometown of Northview Valley.
There he will meet three women who will heal his heart, rediscover the magic of the holidays, and reintroduce him to the carnal joys of intimacy.
Home for a Christmas Wish is a cozy adult fantasy involving sexual themes including polyamory.
Following a failed relationship, losing his job and his apartment, Ray has no choice but to move back in with his parents. It is only after a chance meeting with a homeless man that he is set on a path that will take him into an unseen world within his hometown of Northview Valley.
There he will meet three women who will heal his heart, rediscover the magic of the holidays, and reintroduce him to the carnal joys of intimacy.
Home for a Christmas Wish is a cozy adult fantasy involving sexual themes including polyamory.
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329 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 22, 2023
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September 19, 2024
Home For A Christmas Wish is an erotic romantic fairy tale. This book is essentially a pornographic parody of Hallmark Christmas movies. One heartbroken man, after returning to his hometown, hooks up and eventually lives happily ever after with three Christmas-themed magical women: Maja, a reindeer woman, Tuva, a chubby elf woman, and Hedvig, a Yule cat woman. This novel contains ample sex scenes, including oral sex, semi-public sex, rope bondage, anal play, collaring, threesomes and group sex, and consensual dominance and submission scenes.
While the tagline for Home For A Christmas Wish is “A Holiday Harem Novel”, this isn’t really a “harem”. Maja, Tuva, and Hedvig are all in a relationship with each other and living together before they met Ray and invited him to join their polycule. Ray is in a relationship with three women, but he has no ownership of them, and is the most vulnerable person in the polycule.
Ray Adler, our millennial everyman, begins the story with no job, a broken engagement, and nowhere to live. He is forced to move back to his home town with his parents, his verbally abusive father, and a kind but passive mother.
But after giving an unhoused man a plate of Thanksgiving food, his luck turns around. He gets a job at a bookstore in the mall owned by Maja, a woman with reindeer antlers and deer ears. Maja explains to him that Northview Vally shares a connection to the world of elves and other supernatural creatures called Alfheimr.
Citizens of Alfheimr who live in Northview Valley use glamour, a magical disguise, to protect their identity. Ray can see through the glamor. Afterwards, she seduces him with her magic reindeer pussy and they have sex in the store office.
In reality, your new boss wanting to have sex with you shortly after hiring you is a scary situation. But in the context of this fantasy, it’s hot. It makes sense psychologically. The MC goes from no job and no lover to having a job and a lover all in one blow. This isn’t any better (or worse) than 50 Shades or any other erotica or romance where love interests behave in socially unacceptable ways.
Maja and Ray work together, have sex, have covert sex at a public library. We learn Maja has two roommates. The rest of novel is Ray meeting, having sex with, dating those other two roommates, who also happen to be attractive magical women who own small businesses in the mall. Tuva, an elf, owns a sweet shop, and Hedvig, the Yule cat woman, owns a gaming store.
Tuva has magic empathy, a trait here attributed to elves. She can feel Ray’s insecurities in addition to his sexual attraction. She provides care and comfort to him. She tells him it’s okay to have sexual feelings, and more importantly, he doesn’t have to do anything to prove his worth as a man.
Hedvig, the cat gamer girl, serves a similar function when she listens to Ray about a bad date in high school where afterward he was shunned for not being sexually aggressive. Hedvig tells him he is sweet because he wants clear consent before initiating, rather than a coward.
There is almost no conflict or stakes in this erotic romance. Ray often fears rejection throughout the story. But his fears are always assuaged by his three lovers. Towards the end of the novel he is invited to move in with Maja, Tuva, and Hedvig, which he gleefully accepts - giving our MC a new, loving household to give him a new lease on life.
The only real conflict happens shortly after when Ray’s ex-fiance shows up at his parent’s house during a Christmas party. Maja assumes Ray is going to dump all three of them and get back with his ex, and runs away in despair. The misunderstanding is quickly resolved and all four lovers return to their cozy polyamorous household. It does strike me as strange to see Maja, who has been polyamourous for a while, freak out and leap to conclusions. But on the other hand, being polyamourous doesn’t mean being immune to insecurity or jealously.
Home For A Christmas Wish is excellent at meeting the sexual and emotional needs of the presumed male audience. This is not strictly a fantasy about sexual access to three women, but also a fantasy about acceptance, love, and care. Many men (and other folks) are desperately lonely, alienated, traumatized, uncared for, and overworked.
In a time of precarity, terrible jobs, social alienation, and housing instability, Home For A Christmas Wish is a perfect fantasy of abundance. A fantasy one where you are instantly employed, instantly desired, unconditionally loved by multiple people, and brought into in a wholesome polyamourous household.
While the tagline for Home For A Christmas Wish is “A Holiday Harem Novel”, this isn’t really a “harem”. Maja, Tuva, and Hedvig are all in a relationship with each other and living together before they met Ray and invited him to join their polycule. Ray is in a relationship with three women, but he has no ownership of them, and is the most vulnerable person in the polycule.
Ray Adler, our millennial everyman, begins the story with no job, a broken engagement, and nowhere to live. He is forced to move back to his home town with his parents, his verbally abusive father, and a kind but passive mother.
But after giving an unhoused man a plate of Thanksgiving food, his luck turns around. He gets a job at a bookstore in the mall owned by Maja, a woman with reindeer antlers and deer ears. Maja explains to him that Northview Vally shares a connection to the world of elves and other supernatural creatures called Alfheimr.
Citizens of Alfheimr who live in Northview Valley use glamour, a magical disguise, to protect their identity. Ray can see through the glamor. Afterwards, she seduces him with her magic reindeer pussy and they have sex in the store office.
In reality, your new boss wanting to have sex with you shortly after hiring you is a scary situation. But in the context of this fantasy, it’s hot. It makes sense psychologically. The MC goes from no job and no lover to having a job and a lover all in one blow. This isn’t any better (or worse) than 50 Shades or any other erotica or romance where love interests behave in socially unacceptable ways.
Maja and Ray work together, have sex, have covert sex at a public library. We learn Maja has two roommates. The rest of novel is Ray meeting, having sex with, dating those other two roommates, who also happen to be attractive magical women who own small businesses in the mall. Tuva, an elf, owns a sweet shop, and Hedvig, the Yule cat woman, owns a gaming store.
Tuva has magic empathy, a trait here attributed to elves. She can feel Ray’s insecurities in addition to his sexual attraction. She provides care and comfort to him. She tells him it’s okay to have sexual feelings, and more importantly, he doesn’t have to do anything to prove his worth as a man.
Hedvig, the cat gamer girl, serves a similar function when she listens to Ray about a bad date in high school where afterward he was shunned for not being sexually aggressive. Hedvig tells him he is sweet because he wants clear consent before initiating, rather than a coward.
There is almost no conflict or stakes in this erotic romance. Ray often fears rejection throughout the story. But his fears are always assuaged by his three lovers. Towards the end of the novel he is invited to move in with Maja, Tuva, and Hedvig, which he gleefully accepts - giving our MC a new, loving household to give him a new lease on life.
The only real conflict happens shortly after when Ray’s ex-fiance shows up at his parent’s house during a Christmas party. Maja assumes Ray is going to dump all three of them and get back with his ex, and runs away in despair. The misunderstanding is quickly resolved and all four lovers return to their cozy polyamorous household. It does strike me as strange to see Maja, who has been polyamourous for a while, freak out and leap to conclusions. But on the other hand, being polyamourous doesn’t mean being immune to insecurity or jealously.
Home For A Christmas Wish is excellent at meeting the sexual and emotional needs of the presumed male audience. This is not strictly a fantasy about sexual access to three women, but also a fantasy about acceptance, love, and care. Many men (and other folks) are desperately lonely, alienated, traumatized, uncared for, and overworked.
In a time of precarity, terrible jobs, social alienation, and housing instability, Home For A Christmas Wish is a perfect fantasy of abundance. A fantasy one where you are instantly employed, instantly desired, unconditionally loved by multiple people, and brought into in a wholesome polyamourous household.
January 27, 2025
A fantastic bit of holiday romance. A down on his luck guy getting to meet three christmas themed monster girls and them showering him with the affection he is longing is very moving. A recommendation for anyone looking for a great men's romance novel. Also, more cute reindeer girls is a great bonus.
November 25, 2023
Warm and cozy read
Warm and cozy read. Down on his luck MC finds love during the holidays. Fun and lovable characters with more of a slice of life feel then actual storyline. Exactly what I was looking for.
Warm and cozy read. Down on his luck MC finds love during the holidays. Fun and lovable characters with more of a slice of life feel then actual storyline. Exactly what I was looking for.
December 26, 2024
A great story
I really loved this story. It was just the right thing to read at Christmas time. I highly recommend this book.
I really loved this story. It was just the right thing to read at Christmas time. I highly recommend this book.
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