Tag: author Gigi Rivers

Review:  The Last Gargoyle’s Christmas Wish (MM Monster Christmas Book 3) by Gigi Rivers

Rating: 4.5🌈❄️

Gigi Rivers’ has such a captivating, warmhearted series with her Berry family of hearth and kitchen witches and their assorted otherworldly mates.  With every member finding their love at Christmas, during the same time period, it’s been a joy to watch the same events from the various family members perspectives.

Dragons, gargoyles, werewolves, cat shifters, and orcs! It’s all about love and acceptance in a large family that’s been through so much pain and sorrow, stayed together, and still has room and love in their lives and hearts for more.

Grady is the oldest of the Berry family. He’s the one who remembers, who was there when everything fell apart, and the one who held them together as a family and kept their family bakery from being sold.  The responsibility and the feeling that he is the guardian of them and everything that keeps them safe is pressing in on him as the stress of the years is getting to him. 

Looking down upon the Berry family activities, of their bakery and home, is Uzoth, the last of the gargoyles. Perched high over the town, he’s fascinated by this family, Grady in particular.

Rivers writes an emotional story of two guardians, one increasingly overwhelmed by his own family and his inability to step back from his past, and the other slowly becoming stone, because he’s without a mission, and family, having lost both long ago. 

How they come together at Christmas is a hard won, absolutely magical tale.  I loved it. And them. 

Grady’s struggles are so real, the pressures he puts on himself are so intense and relatable. And the loneliness that is Uzoth is heartbreaking. 

This is another marvelous story in a terrific series and Rivers intends to bring them all back next season. I can’t wait!

Pick them up and dive into a magical seasonal wonderland of Christmas markets, otherworldly beings in love, and magic!

Great covers!

AN MM MONSTER CHRISTMAS 

🔹A Werewolf Mate for Christmas 

🔹The Orc Who Hated Christmas 

🔹The Loneliest Dragon at Christmas 

🔹The Last Gargoyle’s Christmas Wish 

AN MM MONSTER CHRISTMAS SIDE STORY 

🔹Me and My Christmas Familiar

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        The Last Gargoyle’s Christmas Wish (An MM Monster Christmas Book 3)

    

Blurb 

An ancient gargoyle. A hearth witch baker. They’ve always looked after others. Is it time to look after themselves… and their hearts? 

Uzoth is the last of the gargoyles. He sits on rooftops as snow gathers on his wings. But Uzoth is used to the cold. He once had people to protect and brethren to stand beside, but that is all gone. Still, he continues his silent watch, wishing he had a purpose once again.

Strung-out and overworked, Grady is the eldest of ten children. Since his parent’s death, he’s dedicated himself to caring for his siblings and running the family bakery. He hasn’t had a moment for himself. Or for love.

One night, thieves attack Grady. Uzoth swoops in and rescues him. An unusual and tentative friendship forms between them. Soon, feelings and desires grow. Still, Grady has so much responsibility. Can he find time for a relationship with Uzoth? Or will he end up sacrificing a chance at love for the sake of others?

The Last Gargoyle’s Christmas Wish is a cosy fantasy romance with plenty spice. It features an ancient gargoyle, an older sibling who takes on too much responsibility, cosy Christmas vibes, inappropriate uses of a tail, and a guaranteed HEA.

  • Publication date: December 13, 2024
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 174 pages

Review:  The Loneliest Dragon at Christmas (An MM Monster Christmas Book 2) by Gigi Rivers

Rating: 4.5🌈

I came across this series quite by accident, the covers of course! And I’m so happy that I found them.  I’m reading my way through this remarkable series that’s centered around a family of hearth and kitchen witches finding their mates during the Christmas holidays with the last book ending on Christmas. 

Read the author’s notes for the exact reading order for the stories listed below (not that I knew about this to begin with).  And be very prepared for a new hungering for the Vanilla crescent cookies as vividly described and dearly loved within. I had to go get something to munch on as I read. 

Avery, the dragon of the title is a tad unusual as dragons go.  He’s so winsome and engaging as well as a being we can sympathize with. 

Jack and his boisterous family of hearth and kitchen witch bakers are such a great bunch of characters. Their love, kindness, laughter and yes, loud noises are so beautifully written that I feel we can hear them off the pages.

Rivers excels at building a sense of world for the reader to understand the settings while the characters form their relationships and continue their lives, separately and increasingly as a couple.

Magic is everything and everywhere. Dragons after all. But so are books, and baking and the Holidays.

This was absolutely charming and it’s sending me on my own journey to read the entire series before the end of the year.  I highly recommend reading this ! It’s so heartwarming, fantasy romance and dragons!

Another great cover.

AN MM MONSTER CHRISTMAS 

A Werewolf Mate for Christmas 

The Orc Who Hated Christmas 

The Loneliest Dragon at Christmas The Last Gargoyle’s Christmas Wish 

AN MM MONSTER CHRISTMAS SIDE STORY 

Me and My Christmas Familiar

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        The Loneliest Dragon at Christmas (An MM Monster Christmas Book 2)

    

Blurb 

Will a lonely dragon find love this Christmas? Or is he destined to spend another year on his own?

Avery is a wealthy dragon from a powerful bloodline with a hoard of books. Despite this, he lives a solitary life and spends every Christmas alone. Still, he dreams of one day finding a mate with whom he could share the holiday (and his books).

As a hearth witch working in the poor part of town, Jack is often looked down upon. When Avery walks into his bakery, Jack mistakes him for an upper-class servant. Captivated by Avery’s stunning golden eyes and brilliant coppery hair, Jack invites Avery to the Christmas markets.

Avery is beyond thrilled. Maybe he won’t be alone this Christmas! But when Jack realises that Avery is no mere servant, he starts to have doubts. Could a wealthy dragon and a poor baker really build a life together?

Will Jack and Avery overcome their differences? Or will Avery once again be the loneliest dragon at Christmas?

The Loneliest Dragon at Christmas is a cosy fantasy romance with plenty of spice. It features cosy Christmas vibes, a witch baker snowed in with a dragon, lots of cuddling surrounded by a hoard of books, and a guaranteed HEA. Whilst this book is part of a series, it can be read as a standalone.

  • Publication date: November 22, 2024

  • Language: English
  • Print length: 225 pages

Review:  The Orc Who Hated Christmas (An MM Monster Christmas Book 1) by Gigi Rivers

Rating: 4.75🌈

Gigi Rivers has written a really beautiful fantasy romance that weaves into the relationship between an adopted Pixie Cas and a cast off, painfully maligned Orc, Graal, so many emotional themes.  

Abandonment, emotionally and physically, adolescent and adult trauma due to racism or rather speciesism, found families and acceptance in every aspect of their lives.  This is a highly complex, often emotional story with wonderful moments and some very sexy scenes.

Cas was adopted into the family of hearth and kitchen witches that this series is focused upon, and his retelling of that moment is both heartfelt and magical.  That scene has so many layers to it. It’s funny, poignant, heartwarming, and beautiful.  And exactly why I love this book.

Rivers’ characters have been vividly defined, by their well crafted personalities and by their backgrounds that support their own actions and responses to the events around them. To say more is to go into the details that might remove those magical moments that connect with us and make us feel so deeply drawn into their lives and developing love story.

I just love this couple, this series and Gigi Rivers is on my auto list.  Highly recommended.  

 

Don’t forget to check out the Author’s Notes for the exact reading order for the stories listed below (not that I knew about this to begin with). I should have done that and have been working on it now.

Another great cover.

AN MM MONSTER CHRISTMAS 

A Werewolf Mate for Christmas 

The Orc Who Hated Christmas 

The Loneliest Dragon at Christmas The Last Gargoyle’s Christmas Wish 

AN MM MONSTER CHRISTMAS SIDE STORY 

Me and My Christmas Familiar

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        The Orc Who Hated Christmas (An MM Monster Christmas Book 1)

    

Blurb 

A grumpy orc who hates Christmas. A Christmas-obsessed pixie. Can these opposites find love together?

Graal is an orc who hates Christmas. Every year, he spends the day alone in his crappy rented room, haunted by memories of a family who never loved him. He just wishes Christmas and everyone who celebrates it would leave him alone.

Cas is a pixie who loves Christmas. He dresses up in sparkly outfits, calls himself the Christmas pixie, and spreads holiday cheer and pixie dust in the bakery where he works. But this year, his partner cheated on him and then left him. Still, Cas won’t let a broken heart ruin his favourite time of the year.

When Graal steps into Cas’s bakery, Cas is determined that the grumpy orc will enjoy the holiday. Graal is reluctant, but it’s hard to resist the pixie’s charms. As Cas shows Graal the magic of the season, something lingers in the air between them. And it isn’t just pixie dust.

But can a pretty Christmas pixie really love a grumpy orc? And can Cas open his heart again so soon after being betrayed? Or will Graal celebrate another Christmas alone?

The Orc Who Hated Christmas is a cosy fantasy romance with plenty of spice. It features grumpy/sunshine, hates Christmas/loves Christmas, hurt/comfort, fling to more, size difference, an orc who doesn’t believe his worth, a pixie keen to show him it, and a guaranteed HEA. Whilst this book is part of a series, it can be read as a standalone.

  • Publication date: November 1, 2024
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 184 pages