Christmas with the Billionaire

3.5 stars

This book is doing itself a disservice with the cheesy “topless man” cover; it's actually much better than that! I'd market it as a cute chicklit novel in the vein of Sophie Kinsella or Meg Cabot, rather. Yes, it has sex scenes, but not as many as you'd expect from a “steamy romance”, and lots of popular chicklit novels (eg: The Wedding Date or The Kiss Quotient) have even more.

I loved so much about this book. Fake romance becomes real? Check. Sexual tension? Check. Hidden identity? Check. Interesting characters and a fun family? Check.

And my favourite thing? It's set in Australia over Christmas! Now don't get me wrong, I love me some snowy fairytale Christmas romances set in America or the UK. But I grew up in the southern hemisphere, and it was so lovely to see my kind of family Christmas as the backdrop to this story. Watermelon slices, swimming, pavlova, Santa suits being WAY too hot to wear, heat and sudden storms that blow up out of nowhere... I'm here for all of it.