A Very Addicted Christmas

by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

Available for a limited time only!

Follow the characters you love from the Addicted Series and Like Us Series as they embark on holiday shenanigans throughout the years.

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Christmas on the road in a tour bus. Snowed-in during a Scotland trip. Lake house winter traditions with the whole family. A high school “snow themed” party going disastrously awry.

A Very Addicted Christmas is a holiday collection of 18 bonus scenes collected in eBook for the very first time!

Genres: Romance, Christmas, Novella, Found Family, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Holiday

228 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 2, 2024

About the author

NYT & USA Today Bestselling Authors Krista & Becca Ritchie are identical twins—one a science nerd, the other a comic book geek—but with their shared passion for writing, they combined their mental powers as kids and have never stopped telling stories. They love superheroes, flawed characters, and soul mate love.

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Reviews

[* · Rating 4 out of 5]

I will never get bored of reading Core Six crumbs. Reading about the Core Six felt like coming home and catching up with old friends. No one does friendship and family like the Core Six, their love, banter, and ride-or-die loyalty 💗.

Tho I'm really mad about not getting a chapter in Raisy and Loren's pov. Loren wasn't even mentioned enough for me ✋🏽.

I liked the second generation chapters too. Eliot and Kinney grew on me after reading the book. Kinney is so scared of ppl leaving, she tries her best to hide behind a hard and mature-act mask but she's still the baby Hale for me and Eliot hides behind the facade of his charming personality, troublemaker title and easy going smiles.
I also felt like the troublemaking trio is all Eliot. Tom and Luna just stand with him and Eliot is the real troublemaker 😭.

It was nostalgic and therapeutic. one less star for no Raisy and Loren pov 💁🏾‍♀️

[Christy · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars

I'm always here for more Hale's, Cobalt's, and Meadows <3 I loved getting more of the Addicted/Like Us families. Honestly, this should probably only be read if you're caught up with both series (I am) but I loved it!

[dasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

How much I love coming back to this world again!

[Paige]

why is no one talking about this?!?! I better speed read the rest of the series 😍

[a · Rating 2 out of 5]

girl whatever
ig it's too much to ask for some lilo, gillow and coballoway crumbs

[Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

This universe will always have such a special place in my heart! 🩷✨🦋

[✨️ Jessica's Bookshelf ✨️ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading this is like coming home and catching up with old friends. You should read the Like Us series or you'll get major spoilers.

[emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Genuinely cute and very lovely. A lot of these scenes are things I wished we could have seen in the main books. I’ve said it many times over, but the romances in the main books are very largely not for me, but I got enamored with the sibling and friendships in jr fist series a decade ago, and unfortunately have been unable to quit and constantly hope for more of the background stuff to drag itself to the forefront. For that reason especially, this one was a lot of fun for me.

[Breena_ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I need the cobalt empire more than ever now🙏

[Sofia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ll never get tired of reading about these characters. I was expecting more Christmas vibes though

[zilan · Rating 4 out of 5]

home.

[ʚ turtle ɞ (v. busy) · Rating 4 out of 5]

August 6, 2025 (4/5 ⭐️)

[Luce · Rating 2 out of 5]

Features way too many PoV's from the children, and not from the OG's!!

This Christmas novella sucks if you haven't read the series featuring the children.

Wish they'd focused more on the parents, which more people have read about if we're honest! This just feels like a novella to push readers to read their other books. BOO. No, thank you.

TWO STARS FOR YOU.

Also, criminal that there were no Ryke or Daisy chapters. CRIMINAL.

[Sofiah ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is just like a big warm hug from my family

[nicole :): · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is criminal how this book doesn’t have any Loren Hale POVs 😭😭😭😭😭

[Haley · Rating 5 out of 5]

There’s absolutely nothing I appreciate more than Krista & Becca continuously writing in my favorite universe outside of the actual books. There’s so much more to learn about all my favorite characters and I’ll never tire of it. I loved this wintery collection - ready to go back and read the Like Us series all over again!

[lula &#x1d717;&#x1d71a; ࣪˖ ִ&#x1065a; · Rating 4 out of 5]

my family🥹

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

So fun!! A book filled with winter-themed stories from the addicted universe. Loved hearing different point of views from scenes from the series, and getting totally new POVs from characters we haven’t had yet. A cute lil read perfect for Christmas time.

[☼Ella (evajacks’ version) ☼ · Rating 4 out of 5]

that was named a very “ADDICTED” christmas but it should be named a very “LIKE US” christmas instead cause we only read them😔 and don’t get me wrong i love them but i thought we were getting a christmas core 6 novella. if you know me, you know how special loren hale is for me and that he is my fav character of ALL TIME and he was barely there… i had high hopes, i dreamt of loren hale for the past few days… i think the rereading time is coming

[carolina]

I only read the chapters that feature the core six (they were not enough), because I haven’t read the Like Us series and it doesn’t make sense to read the kids chapters if I haven’t read their books yet.

It was so nice to read about my babies again, even though it’s hard to picture them older. What do you mean Lo, Rose, Connor and Ryke are in their 50’s? 😭😭😭

[lamarsbooks]

OMGGG MY FAV SERIES IS COMING BACK TMRW

[Lotte · Rating 4 out of 5]

zo zo zo leuk!!! het voelt altijd als thuiskomen wanneer ik weer een boek over deze personages lees. en dan ook nog eens kerstverhalen? COUNT ME IN. het enige jammere vind ik dat alle verhalen plaatsvinden wanneer de tweede generatie er al is; ik had het ook heel leuk gevonden om te lezen over kerstmis met de core six voor ze ouders werden. MAAR verder no complaints, ik ben forever de grootste addicted/calloway/like us fan<333

[ivayla · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't even put it into words how much these fictional characters mean to me ! 26 books in with these characters, and somehow I'm still just as invested as I was in the beginning

[Mia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great prelude to the Cobalt Empire series. To read again, Connor and Rose POV was amazing, just like all core six crumbs.

[cowboy moomin island]

skimmed this just for my core six crumbs 🥹🎈

[Sara☽༊‧₊˚ · Rating 3 out of 5]

⋆.˚ ᡣ𐭩 .𖥔˚ "I sink into the kiss and into the weight of his arms. I let him block out the wind for me. And I let myself believe that he and I, we’ll live forever."

⭑⤷ I was hoping this would have more stories focused on the addicted series characters (my babies<3) but they're mostly on the like us series ones - a series I consider bad fanfiction that you could not pay me to read - so you can imagine how INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTED I WAS READING THIS💔

anyway, 3 stars for the core 6 cameos, and -2 stars for the NON-EXISTENT GARRISONWILLOW MOMENTS?! and because I seriously dgaf about anyone else.

[reeba · Rating 5 out of 5]

core 8 as parents 🥹 the girl squad 🥹💖 I LOVE THEM SO BAD

[Monse · Rating 4 out of 5]

the year stamps made me feel so old

[Kaitlyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

love them so much 🫶🏼

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Is it possible to love and hate a book at the same time? 😭

When this was announced, I thought it was going to be the best early Christmas present ever but then I saw that it was during the Like Us timeline and my dreams were crushed 😭

I still gave it a go and part of me, was giggling and almost crying with seeing the Core Six again because they old such a special place in my heart 🥹

But the second generation chapters? Skimmed through it like my life depended on it! I know hate is a strong word but I indeed hated the Like Us series (except for Moffy’s books 🥰) and this was no different 😭