Snow Place Like LA and Seas and Greetings: A Second Chance Hollywood Romance and a Steamy Queer Enemies-to-Lovers Cruise Love Story in One Collection

by Julie Murphy, Sierra Simone

320 pages, Paperback

Published June 24, 2025

About the author

Julie Murphy lives in North Texas with her husband who loves her and her cats who tolerate her. After several wonderful years in the library world, Julie now writes full-time.

When she’s not writing or reliving her reference desk glory days, she can be found watching made-for-TV movies, hunting for the perfect slice of cheese pizza, and planning her next great travel adventure.

She is also the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the young adult novels Dumplin’ (now a film on Netflix), Puddin’, Pumpkin, Ramona Blue, and Side Effects May Vary. Her middle grade novels include Dear Sweat Pea and a forthcoming 2023 title. She is also Disney's If The Shoe Fits, a modern day romcom retelling of Cinderella. Her writing partner is Sierra Simone and their romance debut is A Merry Little Meet Cute.

Julie has been featured in places liek Good Morning America, The New York Times, and Teen Vogue. Dumplin' was also named one of the best young adult books of all time by Time Magazine.

Reviews

[Natalie S · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed both, but I liked Snow place like home best.
I remembered the characters of Angel and Luca, and so they were really fun to see again and enjoy in this novella.
Seas and greetings was okay, however, I sadly didn't remember Krysta or Addison much. So, I had a hard time caring for them enough to enjoy their connection.

[Bethreads · Rating 2 out of 5]

I couldn't get into either of these stories which is such a same as it looked like so much fun to read

[Lomasi Marshall · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was one of the worst books I have ever read. I read the Merry Little Meet Cute series during the holidays last year by the same authors and really enjoyed it - there were some parts I didn’t like but I saw this at B&N and wanted to give this story line another shot. This is a two-side novella based on some of the secondary characters from the Meet Cute series. I thought the whole thing was super cheesy. It was hard for me to stay focused because
of how cliche and boring the storylines were. And the worst part was that the intimate scenes were beyond raunchy.. but not in a good way. I am all for a spicy romance but some of the scenes were very cringy and the language used sounded like the authors were trying to write a p**** scene. Unfortunately just not my cup of tea.

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect Holiday series.

[Jordan Lorusso · Rating 3 out of 5]

about 3.5. Everything was so quick, as a novella is but like the second had more plot but not that much