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Sunkissed
Drew’s not interested in the holiday spirit this year. It’s hard to be enthusiastic when your best friend bails on the annual family getaway.
Then Robbie McConnell shows up at the beach on Christmas day, and sparks a summer holiday romance that spans the magical hot summer days between Christmas and New Year.
Robbie’s seemingly endless joy is marred by local bullies targeting Drew. Robbie’s choices will make or break the tentative sparks of first love between them.
Sunkissed is a Summer Christmas beachside Romance about first love, finding your inner strength and figuring yourself out.
Sunkissed is an MM, Australian summer holiday, Christmas romance in The Heart of the Holidays: A Stand Alone Gay YA Series.
Then Robbie McConnell shows up at the beach on Christmas day, and sparks a summer holiday romance that spans the magical hot summer days between Christmas and New Year.
Robbie’s seemingly endless joy is marred by local bullies targeting Drew. Robbie’s choices will make or break the tentative sparks of first love between them.
Sunkissed is a Summer Christmas beachside Romance about first love, finding your inner strength and figuring yourself out.
Sunkissed is an MM, Australian summer holiday, Christmas romance in The Heart of the Holidays: A Stand Alone Gay YA Series.
- GenresM M RomanceHoliday
75 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 18, 2020
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About the author
Bronte Meredith
2 books3 followersI'm an Australian author who writes MM Romance.
I write a whole bunch of different sub genres and was lucky enough to be invited to write with some amazing Young Adult authors for my first YA book Sunkissed.
I love my characters. I don't make them up, they pop into existence in my head. They often wake me up with conversations (sometimes heated) in the middle of the night, that need to be recorded for something later on.
I have so many notebooks filled with character situations and dialogue, that there probably should be a bookshelf cull. I need to write faster so that I can make room on my shelves for new notebooks.
If you want to reach out, I'm on facebook with my OTHER author name Nadia Mack.
(Source: Amazon.com)
I write a whole bunch of different sub genres and was lucky enough to be invited to write with some amazing Young Adult authors for my first YA book Sunkissed.
I love my characters. I don't make them up, they pop into existence in my head. They often wake me up with conversations (sometimes heated) in the middle of the night, that need to be recorded for something later on.
I have so many notebooks filled with character situations and dialogue, that there probably should be a bookshelf cull. I need to write faster so that I can make room on my shelves for new notebooks.
If you want to reach out, I'm on facebook with my OTHER author name Nadia Mack.
(Source: Amazon.com)
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Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
May 9, 2022
A lovely novella with summer Christmas spirit!
March 29, 2022
What a gorgeous little tale! The gentle flame that flickers between Drew and Robbie in this coming-of-age novella hurtles me right back to me teenage self and the relationship I was so desperately hoping to find. In my case, it never materialised, but if Aussie books like this had been around back then I wouldn’t have felt quite so alone. Similar Aussie gay Bildungsroman novels like "Peter" by Kate Walker didn’t surface till I was twenty years old—a sign of the times when things were changing with the emergence of Priscilla culture.
So if you’re after sun, sand, surf, a long hot summer and a sweet story about two boys who find love and self-acceptance, this is for you.
So if you’re after sun, sand, surf, a long hot summer and a sweet story about two boys who find love and self-acceptance, this is for you.
June 19, 2022
Robbie let’s everyone degrade him with anti gay slurs his whole life and is apparently fine with it. Then he meets Drew, who is not. This is the basic set up which could’ve been a full length novel if the author had taken the time to create more depth in the other characters and the beautiful Australia setting. We have a swim competition, Christmas, fireworks, hiking adventures, kissing, and bullying to create fully fleshed out characters and scenes. The writing does not meet the challenge here and the people are one dimensional and the setting is barely described in most places, and ineffectually used in others. We get growth from Robbie and a half scene of his dad, bus that was about it.
It’s a cute little story I enjoyed but wished it were more.
It’s a cute little story I enjoyed but wished it were more.
June 3, 2022
A perfectly pitched YA story. The Aussie holiday setting, with the distinction between locals and regular visitors, was so nuanced, as were our two main characters, Drew and Robbie, along with their clearly characterised friends and families. Bronte Meredith pin-pointed the typical teenage preoccupations and annoyances as our two likeable characters slowly embarked on a sweet romance. What rang true, and was such an important message, was how they both reacted to and grew from facing up to attitudes around them which made me cheer! A delightful coming of age tale.
December 23, 2020
An interesting story of Robbie and Drew – two lads on holiday at an Australian holiday park on the beach. The discoveries of youth and the fear of being found out make this story throb with tension and drama but there’s sweetness and humour too.
May 10, 2021
A Wonderful Summer in Australia.
I chose this rating because this story is sweet and very realistic. Today being gay is a lot easier than when I wad growing up. However there are many area holes like Bill who make things hard for gay boys like Robbie and Drew.
I chose this rating because this story is sweet and very realistic. Today being gay is a lot easier than when I wad growing up. However there are many area holes like Bill who make things hard for gay boys like Robbie and Drew.
November 21, 2020
Cute short story set over the christmas period in a caravan park and the starting of the relationship between Robbie and Drew.
Robbie was a bit of an ass but he did redeem himself in the end
Robbie was a bit of an ass but he did redeem himself in the end
November 15, 2025
A very tight page turner
I could not put this down. Compelling, well crated characters and a believable, heart warming plot make this a must read
I could not put this down. Compelling, well crated characters and a believable, heart warming plot make this a must read
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