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Due North
On a perfectly ordinary Christmas night, Santa Claus found Mitzi Mayfield in a tiny bassinet in Manhattan. For twenty years, Mitzi knew nothing but the comfort of her small magical village in the North Pole and the love of the Claus’ who had adopted her. That was until she was thrust into the real world on an adventure to find her birth parents. Finding love, however, was the last thing on her mind.
The very idea of Christmas made real-life scrooge Amelia Banner ill. A high-end accountant, her days were predictable and orderly, just the way she liked it. Yet even still, Amelia had always felt like there was something missing from her life.
When fate brings Mitzi and Amelia together on a cold December night, they find their lives quickly intertwining. While Amelia helps Mitzi on her journey of self-discovery, she herself discovers a little bit of love for the season. As the two begin to fall for one another, secrets of their lives begin to reveal themselves and their fairytale romance starts to get complicated.
Do Mitzi and Amelia let their past define them? Or do they realize that maybe all they really want for Christmas, is each other?
A softhearted fantastical holiday lesbian romance novella for mature readers who believe in a little bit of Christmas magic!
98 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 27, 2017
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Magnolia Robbins
19 books121 followersMaggie is a bestselling queer romance author from the west coast. When she isn't writing, you'll almost always find a cup of coffee in her hands.
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December 3, 2017
While the premise of DUE NORTH seemed like a cute concept, it was too cheesy to be anything other than a letdown. I had to suspend a LOT of belief to get through this.
For the past twenty years, Mitzi has been living with her family at the North Pole. Mr. Claus himself had taken her in & doesn't tell her this two decades. After Mitzi finds out, she decides she is going to meet her biological parents, so she takes a reindeer to get to New York.
Amelia hates the holidays (mostly because her ex-girlfriend broke up with her on Christmas Eve), but she puts up with it for the sake of her five-year-old niece Daisy & sister Eve. When she sees Mitzi in the middle of the street dressed up in her 'elf attire' she can't get her off her mind. Naturally, the attraction is instant (which didn't work for me in this case because while they're opposite, they're TOO opposite), & Amelia helps Mitzi find Robert Bunch, the man who left her to be found at the orphanage.
My biggest problems with this was Mitzi's character- she was a total ditz! For an adult, she was less mature than Daisy. I couldn't believe when she met Robert for the very first time (apparently her uncle?) & gave the dude a kiss on the cheek! Like, okay. The writing was icky- I'm tired of reading about timid hands & I cringed when Amelia referred to Mitzi as a "tiny twig of a girl". Plus, there's no steamy scenes, so that was a bummer.
The "HEA" was ridiculous- how does everyone end up together after 20 years with all smiles & roses? Family reunited just like that? Christmas may be a time for miracles; it took me a miracle to finish this. For a novella it just dragged on & on, it was just so boring & it felt like all the characters were puppets for a naive audience. I wanted a light-hearted holiday read but this wasn't it.
For the past twenty years, Mitzi has been living with her family at the North Pole. Mr. Claus himself had taken her in & doesn't tell her this two decades. After Mitzi finds out, she decides she is going to meet her biological parents, so she takes a reindeer to get to New York.
Amelia hates the holidays (mostly because her ex-girlfriend broke up with her on Christmas Eve), but she puts up with it for the sake of her five-year-old niece Daisy & sister Eve. When she sees Mitzi in the middle of the street dressed up in her 'elf attire' she can't get her off her mind. Naturally, the attraction is instant (which didn't work for me in this case because while they're opposite, they're TOO opposite), & Amelia helps Mitzi find Robert Bunch, the man who left her to be found at the orphanage.
My biggest problems with this was Mitzi's character- she was a total ditz! For an adult, she was less mature than Daisy. I couldn't believe when she met Robert for the very first time (apparently her uncle?) & gave the dude a kiss on the cheek! Like, okay. The writing was icky- I'm tired of reading about timid hands & I cringed when Amelia referred to Mitzi as a "tiny twig of a girl". Plus, there's no steamy scenes, so that was a bummer.
The "HEA" was ridiculous- how does everyone end up together after 20 years with all smiles & roses? Family reunited just like that? Christmas may be a time for miracles; it took me a miracle to finish this. For a novella it just dragged on & on, it was just so boring & it felt like all the characters were puppets for a naive audience. I wanted a light-hearted holiday read but this wasn't it.
October 4, 2022
3.3 star rating
Santa's daughter finds herself in New York lost and confused and fortuitously finds herself in the hands of a modern day Christmas time avoider and her niece.
The help alone had me seriously wonder why New York was chosen because that is a very very unlikely act. Asides that it was a nice fun and short read.
Also it's pretty PG.
Santa's daughter finds herself in New York lost and confused and fortuitously finds herself in the hands of a modern day Christmas time avoider and her niece.
The help alone had me seriously wonder why New York was chosen because that is a very very unlikely act. Asides that it was a nice fun and short read.
Also it's pretty PG.
December 24, 2017
Wonderful Christmas story :)
December 10, 2017
I loved the idea of the novel as well as the characters, and it was a sweet story, and totally festive.
A good Christmas read, but at the same time I found it to be too cheesy.
I liked the storyline, and some of the characters, but I found Mitzi too sweet. Much too sweet.
Though the book was pretty short so I don't mind it much.
Overall, Due North was a cute, sweet read and I enjoyed reading it!
A good Christmas read, but at the same time I found it to be too cheesy.
I liked the storyline, and some of the characters, but I found Mitzi too sweet. Much too sweet.
Though the book was pretty short so I don't mind it much.
Overall, Due North was a cute, sweet read and I enjoyed reading it!
December 28, 2017
Loved it!
It's not Christmas anymore but I still want to feel the Christmas spirit. This book had it all. A sweet and romantic fairytale with a great storyline. I have enjoyed it immensely.
It's not Christmas anymore but I still want to feel the Christmas spirit. This book had it all. A sweet and romantic fairytale with a great storyline. I have enjoyed it immensely.
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May 3, 2020
I don't like putting not so good rating but sometimes it just has to be done. This was honestly a cute story but there was something off to me like the character of Mitzi seemed to be way younger than at least 20 years old. I get that it's about Christmas spirit but still the connection with "strangers" was way too soon.
3.5 stars for this one
3.5 stars for this one
December 4, 2019
Short and fluffy. I think this one could have benefitted from a bit more length, because it's hard to get the necessary worldbuilding and character development and so on into under a hundred pages when you're dealing with things like a) Santa's adopted daughter and b) a character first finding out that she's been adopted and then making contact with her birth parents.
Mitzi is deeply naïve, or at least sheltered: at twenty, she's never left the North Pole. Upon learning that she was adopted and is not in fact the biological daughter of Santa Claus, she runs off to Greenwich Village to find her roots. Now...she's not always consistently ignorant. For example: she instantly knows that 'Greenwich' is in New York (as opposed to, say, London)...but she doesn't know what the subway is. She's never been outside her tiny magical village...but one she learns about subways and so on, she instantly and easily slots herself into New York life. It's unclear what sort of sex ed she's had in the North Pole (did she have any idea that she liked women?), but for all that she has no experience, she easily and happily falls into an insta-love romance and into bed with Amelia. I'd really have liked to see a little more tension in terms of her navigating the 'real world'; any tension at all in terms of Mitzi meeting her bio family; and something more with the North Pole to make the Santa Claus angle more than just a cute hook.
However! I'm not sure whether the version I read is an updated edition (the cover is different than the one on GR), but I'm very happy to note that the tense problems of yore seem to be a thing of the past. It's still a massive improvement. Next step...watching out for repetition of things like 'smile'?
Mitzi is deeply naïve, or at least sheltered: at twenty, she's never left the North Pole. Upon learning that she was adopted and is not in fact the biological daughter of Santa Claus, she runs off to Greenwich Village to find her roots. Now...she's not always consistently ignorant. For example: she instantly knows that 'Greenwich' is in New York (as opposed to, say, London)...but she doesn't know what the subway is. She's never been outside her tiny magical village...but one she learns about subways and so on, she instantly and easily slots herself into New York life. It's unclear what sort of sex ed she's had in the North Pole (did she have any idea that she liked women?), but for all that she has no experience, she easily and happily falls into an insta-love romance and into bed with Amelia. I'd really have liked to see a little more tension in terms of her navigating the 'real world'; any tension at all in terms of Mitzi meeting her bio family; and something more with the North Pole to make the Santa Claus angle more than just a cute hook.
However! I'm not sure whether the version I read is an updated edition (the cover is different than the one on GR), but I'm very happy to note that the tense problems of yore seem to be a thing of the past. It's still a massive improvement. Next step...watching out for repetition of things like 'smile'?
December 4, 2017
Light-hearted Christmas romance
I thought the first part of this short story was a bit simplistic, and could be improved with a few more details/greater character development.
That said, as I got further into this story, I enjoyed it for what I think it was meant to be: a sweet, light-hearted Christmas romance. This book does straddle the line between cute and corny at times, but overall it's enjoyable and makes for a nice escape.
I thought the first part of this short story was a bit simplistic, and could be improved with a few more details/greater character development.
That said, as I got further into this story, I enjoyed it for what I think it was meant to be: a sweet, light-hearted Christmas romance. This book does straddle the line between cute and corny at times, but overall it's enjoyable and makes for a nice escape.
September 5, 2018
Total Christmas romance story.
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