Stuffed Stockings by K.A. Mitchell is a beautiful, Sexy Holiday Romance. I LOVED Lucas and Zane. They were so good together.

I Highly Recommend this book to all readers.

Lucas has a crush on Zane. Getting talked into the Secret Santa at work just wasn’t him but he decided to go for it anyway. When his Secret Santa starts giving him sexy, slightly kinky, then kinkier gifts, he hopes they are coming from Zane because he wants to use every single item on Zane’s gorgeous body.

This was a slightly different holiday story. Sweet, short, and like I said before, a bit kinky. Instead of naughty and nice it’s naughty and naughtier. Short enough that there wasn’t a lot of character development but in this case I’m ok with that. Definitely recommend if your looking for something quick and cute for the holidays.

Review Copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads

KA Mitchell's Stuffed Stocking is a fun holiday read.
It's perfect when you're in the mood for a hot and spicy, quick read.

Coming in at around 90 pages Stuffed Stockings is a fairly short read that is very easy to read in one sitting which is a great thing because once I stared reading about these two I couldn't put it down! Lucas is shy and socially awkward with people he doesn't know well, he's not great at reading social situations and tends to be pretty oblivious when someone is flirting with him so he hadn't picked up any signals at all from his sexy colleague Zane. Zane on the other hand is much more confident and outgoing, he knows exactly what he wants and he sets out to get it by convincing Lucas to join in the company's secret Santa gift exchange.

In the run up to the holidays the secret Santa is supposed to leave two gifts a week for their partner and they'll only reveal who has been giving them the gifts at the office Christmas party. Zane has made sure he is partnered up with Lucas and let's just say the gifts get more and more kinky as the weeks go by! Lucas spends a lot of his time fantasising about using the gifts with Zane but in spite of the increased flirting he still isn't sure whether Zane is actually the one leaving the presents.

Stuffed Stockings was the perfect combination of really sweet and incredibly spicy. Yes, you have to suspend belief a little that colleagues would take quite so many risks with gift giving in the workplace but I was enjoying the story so much that I was able to completely gloss over that aspect. I loved both Lucas and Zane and really enjoyed getting to know them. Lucas had a hidden dominant side that was just waiting for Zane to bring out while Zane appeared super confident but had a more vulnerable side once you got to know him better. They made a ridiculously adorable couple but damn their chemistry was intense. The addition of the secret Santa gifts was perfect and I was just as eager to see what was inside each parcel as Lucas was! I would LOVE another story about this couple, not because their story felt unfinished but because I was having so much fun reading about them, either way I definitely need to check out more books by K.A. Mitchell.

A short, smutty, and kinky read--a trifecta and good addition to the Dirty Bits series. Glad to see more lgbtq characters are getting page time.

A fun, sexy holiday read. It was fun getting to know Lucas and Zane and their growing relationship. This story was a fun (and hot!) twist on the holiday gift exchange.

K. A. Mitchell has written a sexy, funny romance that will leave you wanting more. Totally loved this book. Great read! Would recommend

*2.5 stars*

A cute, smutty little short, but I thought the office setting mixed with BDSM to be a bit... confusing.

Would you send very, very explicit, BDSM-themed gifts to a coworker without A) Knowing they were interested, and B) Knowing if they are into kink? I didn't think so.

I really like K.A. Mitchell but Stuffed Stockings: A Sweet and Sexy Christmas Romance wasn't my favorite from her. I always have a hard time with novellas, with rare exception, and I struggled with my same issues as always here. It was too short for me to really buy the romance and not developed enough for me to get a full grasp on the plot and set-up. It just fell short in many ways.

I thought the sex was hot enough, and I liked the Christmas theme, but I left the book feeling vaguely dissatisfied. I love a sexy geek, but I felt that even that aspect was underwhelming. Better luck next time.

*Copy provided in exchange for an honest review*

Stuffed Stockings is like a mashup of a sweet Secret Santa/12 Days of Christmas office romance and an exploration into BDSM - and I'm not mad at it. I do think I would've enjoyed it more had we gotten both characters' perspectives; reading the story from just Lucas' vantage point made it feel very one sided (understandably so) and uneven. However, having just read a book (which was also an office romance ironically) where the story is told from just one character's perspective and that character was shy/slightly neurotic, thus heavily coloring the whole narrative of the story - I truly appreciated Lucas' characterization as a somewhat shy and subdued person (especially as he embraces a very alternate side of his personality). Overall, I did enjoy the book and will continue to look forward to reading more in the Dirty Bits imprint. 3 out of 5 wine glasses.

This was unbelieveably sweet. Like, really cute-sweet-rot your teeth. I like it a lot, mostly because it was so adorable. Leave it to K.A. Mitchell to give me a sweet and comfy ready for Christmas. Happy endings at the holidays... nothing better.

Rating 5/5

Whooooooo! Wow this was so damn sexy I need my own stockings stuffed! Mitchell has done herself a fantastic job well done!

Really enjoyable M/M Erotica with an engaging plot and steamy, kinky sex scenes. I thought the length was perfect for this piece and really loved the characters Zane and Lucas. Author Mitchell did a great job with the Christmas-theme, actually making it an important part of the plot. A really fun read.

I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Possibly my favorite holiday read this year. Short and sweet and HOT. Highly recommended you stuff this in your stocking!

I received a digital ARC from the publisher via Netgalley.

3.5 Stars Quick, steamy with a little kink, Stuffed Stocking is one of the dirty bits novellas from Carina Press. I liked the story and the characters and look forward to reading more.

Very sexy fun read. Just the amount of Heat to keep warm for a few hours.
I voluntarily review this ARC and the opinions are all mine.

This is part of Carina's Dirty Bits line, so it's a short, sex-centered story. And *phew,* if you ever wondered how accountants and office Secret Santa could be sexy? This is the book for you. There's a fair amount of kink, but as sexy as it is, the romance between the two heroes is really sweet. The book is also funny, which is something I really needed as I read it on Christmas Eve. Possibly the best that I've read so far in the Dirty Bits line.

This is another novella from the Dirty Bits collection. It is also one that I would have liked to be longer. I didn't feel like I got to know either character that well enough to buy their attraction. I also wasn't a fan of their BDSM relationship, especially at work during the office holiday party. That was kind of a bit off-putting. Why did everything have to happen at work? It was just a bit unrealistic for me

I've read previous full length books and novellas from this author, so I was looking forward to reading Stuffed Stockings. I loved the idea of a naughty secret elf, although the gifts were over the top and not office appropriate. I liked Lucas, and I enjoyed seeing his reactions to some of the 'gifts'. Zane was all over the place, so I'm not sure I ever really liked him. My main problem with this novella was there just wasn't enough content for me to become invested in the relationship or story. The bdsm element felt too forced for my tastes, and there wasn't much of a plot (other than gifting of sex toys.)

Overall, I wasn't too impressed with this novella. I really wanted to love it, but it turned out to be just okay.

Mmmmm hot and smutty!
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I just love these quick dirty reads from The Dirty Bits. And with Christmas here I just absolutely have to read about stuffed stockings. My mind went right into the gutter, and thankfully, the author's did too.

This book was blazing hot. Much of it came from the anticipation and build up, the personal conversations, and Lucas unwrapping those gifts! But the hook up, damn hot!

But it wasn’t just about the sex. The author also gave us time to get to know the guys. You can feel the awkwardness and hesitation. Relate to sharing your needs and deep desires; building trust. And laugh out loud with some of the cheesy innuendos.

Stuffed Stockings is hot, dirty and a ton of fun. Makes you hope for your own stuffed Santa with tricks in his stocking!

When Lucas' office crush starts flirting with him, asking him if he's going to participate in the office Secret Santa exchange, Lucas is sure he's imagining the flirting. But then he starts getting his Secret Santa gifts and really starts wondering if they're from Zane, said crush. As each gift gets progressively naughtier, Lucas' fantasies get hotter, until he's about to burst with all the secretive, sexy thoughts that are starting to take over his thoughts even during the day when he's supposed to be working.

Zane has secret needs, desires that his ex made him feel like a freak for expressing. But he feels like Lucas would be just the man to give him what he needs - to take control of him, to demand his submission, to make him feel wanted the way he is. Thank God for the company's Secret Santa exchange because it gives him the perfect way to experiment, to see if Lucas is the man for him. Will Lucas be the perfect Santa he needs this year?

While I thought Stuffed Stockings was hot and sweet, it wasn't as great as I thought it would be. For one, the BDSM part wasn't very well defined. Perhaps it's because of the way too short length. Perhaps it was because Zane and Lucas weren't together long enough to be engaging in the kind of relationship Zane needed. Lucas was presented as a sort of nerd in the beginning, so for him to ultimately be the controlling top seemed completely out of character. Zane's character was sweet, but seemed about as deep as a piece of paper. If Stuffed Stockings had been expanded into a full length novel, though, I think the author would have been able to give the reader (and Zane and Lucas) what would have been the perfect D/s pairing I was hoping (they were hoping) for. As written, though, 3 stars seems fair for something that while hot and ultimately sweet and cute, isn't well-drawn and developed enough to be satisfying as something more than a short-lasting, hot little stocking stuffer.