Read Around the Rainbow | Seasonal Reads

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It’s Read Around the Rainbow time!!! 🌈 On the last Friday of every month, we’re a bunch of authors who get together and share our thoughts on a specific topic, and this month we’re talking seasonal reads – if we read summer books during summer and winter books during winter, or if we’re rebels who read whatever we want whenever we want 😁

You’d think since I write stories for holidays all year around (as Holly Day) I’d read according to seasons/holidays, but I don’t. I might be more likely to pick up a Christmas book during winter, but then we have the whole Christmas in July thing, so might as well read them throughout the year 😆

I think a key aspect is that I’m not very observant when I pick up a book. I tend not to read blurbs, and I don’t really investigate unless I’m on the hunt for something specific. Christmas books, you can often tell by the cover that it’s gonna be a holiday story, but most often I read a book because I think the cover is pretty or because I’ve read something by that author before and liked it.

So do I read summer books in the summer?

Who wants to read summer books at all?! It’s warm and sweaty in the summer, and I don’t want to be there if I don’t have to. If I can tell by the cover it’s gonna be an autumn or winter story, I’ll pick that over a summer image every day of the week. If there’s a beach on the cover, I’m not likely to read it, unless it’s cold and windy and deserted. If it is, I’m there! LOL

That being said, I write books all around the year. Now. When I only wrote as Ofelia, most of my books took place during autumn unless I wrote it for a specific call or there was something in the plot that demanded it being spring or summer.

When I write as Holly, I write the month the holiday takes place in, and I stick to the Swedish climate and daylight hours.

It’s easier to write a summer story in the summer, which of course never happens. I’ve had years when I’ve listened to Christmas music in the middle of summer because the Christmas deadlines are coming up. Whatever gets you in the right mood, right?

So short answer – no I don’t pick my books depending on what season I’m in, but I’m more likely to read a Christmas story in the winter half of the year.

Check out what the others have to say!

Summer/Winter

ninestones

The only thing worse than having a hot neighbor you’re too intimidated to talk to is accidentally hitting his cat with your car. Felix Lane was perfectly content to spend the rest of his days with Sunny, his canary life companion, in their quiet little corner of the suburbs. But then Kirk Shoo with his unusual eyes moved in across the street, and Felix’s carefully constructed life is starting to unravel. When your every bad-boy fantasy lingers at the mailbox, stands too close and smells too damn good, what’s an under-appreciated administrative assistant to do? Besides sneak out the backdoor to go to work? But when Kirk’s cat runs out in front of Felix on his way home, he has no choice but to face the music and his dream man. Unless … What starts as a tragic accident turns into something far more bizarre. And when Felix’s backyard begins to look like a pet cemetery, he has no choice but to come clean. That is, if he can manage to find his sexy neighbor at all.

24dates

When Victor Hill bought a house with his boyfriend, Jian Kouri it was a dream come true. But now, two years later, instead of living their happily ever after, they hardly see the other awake. With Jian out the door before Victor gets up in the morning, and asleep on the couch nearly as soon as he walks in the door, the life Victor imagined couldn’t be further from reality. They don’t talk; they don’t touch, and Victor fears he and Jian have already drifted too far apart. The holiday season is a time for hope, but when Victor comes home to find Jian with a plan to woo him for Christmas, is it too little, too late? The dates are great, and there are filled with Christmas fun to get Victor in the right spirit for the holiday, but are they enough for the two of them to fall in love again? Or is there just too much in their relationship that needs fixing?