I actually enjoyed the audio and stories quite a bit, I wasn’t expecting spectacle, but it was fun to listen to interesting takes on a gay romance set against different background across different settings: A college student falling for his roommate’s brother over a Hanukah visit, a set of stepbrothers finding mutual attraction in the midst of a romantic winter escape in a Ski Chalet (fancy ski cabin with hot tub), an aimless recent college grad playing an elf and a reclusive cynical tree farmer playing Santa Claus for an old fashioned Santa’s village photo scene, finding a sexually fulfilling relationship (lite BDSM/role play), and two young actors finding their onscreen gay romance translating into the real thing over a winter in the rural Canada.
Good romance stories should be be warm and make you feel cozy as you read or listen to them, there should of course be a bit of heat at times to tempt your blood as well. This story achieved what I wanted from it and it did so with a warm comfy feeling like I was watching a mature version of Hallmark Channel’s Holiday classics, with gay sex.
The narrator did a decent job as well, Kirt Grave is not my favorite, but he does a decent job in this stories and I knew who I was listening to.