Rachel’s Reviews > How My Neighbor Stole Christmas > Status Update

Okay maaaaaaybeeeeeee the candy cane stuff was kind of hot. Until the end. Then it got gross. Also, were they banging in front of the reindeer? That seems inappropriate to me.

I don't know if it says something about me, but I hated every second of the smut. It just felt like an aggressive tonal shift to me. Way too vulgar for what's generally a fun, fluffy book. Not pure Hallmark cleanliness, but I think it could and should have been kept PG-13 (or 15) at most. Maybe closed door, or at the very least, MUCH less explicit.

There's a whole ass editors note printed in the book on page 281. Someone definitely fucked up in the final proofread of this book (if there even was one).

Every now and then, there are these weird little writing errors that take me out of the book. The conversation in Chapter 19 was full of them. And twice now the phrase was used, "I roll my teeth over the corner of my lip." Do you mean to say you bit the inside of your cheek? 'Cause I tried acting out the phrase and it... doesn't work. I don't know where it came from but it's WEIRD.

I think I ship Cole & Max together more than I ship Cole with Storee. Whoops? I blame the author for giving Max such goofy bisexual vibes (and I guess also my brain for picturing him as Lewis Pullman).