Small town second chance romances are always so cute and I get so excited to read them. This book was a good story and had a great start but then I'm not sure what happened.

It felt sudden to me that Quinn had a change of heart and let the green monster take control. It all felt just not right. I figured the 'conflict' was the snow scene but then the added conflict about the photos was just weird.

I loved Nicole as an MC and I loved Quinn as an MC until Quinn did a 180 which felt wrong.

The side characters are amazing and I love the parts they have in this story.

An ARC was provided to me via Netgalley in return of an honest review.

The premise of this was super promising! Unfortunately could not connect. It was too slow and too dry.

I love holiday romances and second chance romances, but I just could not warm to this one. The premise was promising and it wasn’t a bad story but execution could have been better. In particular, I was disappointed by the ending. We all know with romances there is a break up/screw up at 80% and then one needs to give a big grand gesture in apology. However, it all felt a little lacking. This may have been because I was not a big fan of Quinn.

I love a small town holiday romance and I was really disappointed that I didn't love this one.

The story is about two women who are working on the same project for their hometown. Both were crushing on one another when they were kids. This leads to tension as adults.
I liked the concept, Nicole was a good MC and i found a lot of the side characters lovable and funny. I did want to like this, but the writing was kind of dry and hard for me to connect with and Quinn...well it took a bit to like her.

DNF at 54%

Nicole and Quinn attended high school together. Each with a huge crush on the other, but always from afar. When that crush leads to more and more blows up in their faces they part ways. Years later, both photographers are thrown together to complete a marketing campaign. Will being pushed together cause a relationship to finally blossom? Or will it blow up in their faces again?

I tried really hard to love this book. It has all the components of a romance, especially a Christmas romance, that I love. I expected to be in literal book heaven with unrequited love and Christmas in one book. Unfortunately, the book didn’t read like heaven to me at all.

What I liked:
Two Strong Female Leads
Hilarious Supporting Characters
The Plot (at times)

What I disliked:
Dry Narrative/Lack of Voice
Entirety of the storyline being based on a lack of communication that began 16+ years before in high school
The FMCs lack of will to clear the air
Exceptionally slow pace

All-in-all, I was really looking forward to this book, but was left disappointed, It had the potential to be great but with the use of my least favorite tropes, too much fluff, and a written voice I couldn’t connect with, I found this book just wasn’t for me.

Nicole and Quinn end up hired to work on a photo project together and they have to figure out how to make this do-able despite their short lived experience of a failed attempt at a relationship when they were teens. This book is well written with boldly drawn main characters. Their story is told with unflinching honesty with both women lucky enough to have the support of a parent each and good friends. I warmed to Nicole quickly but found it more of a challenge to like Quinn and I think it is perhaps for this reason that I felt a little sour and unconvinced by the ending.

A sweet story - nice to read at Christmas (I love a seasonal book), but not overly my cup of tea. Thank you for letting me read and review it.

This book is a second chance romance, with not really enemies-to-lovers but the two main characters do start a little antagonist due to their history. Overall this book had a fun premise and cast of characters, but I had trouble liking one of the main characters to the point of distraction.

Nicole and Quinn both had major, mutual, crushes on each other in high school but neither one could make the first move. They gravitate around each other, similar friend groups, activities, and mostly an interest in photography without ever really intersecting. When Quinn helps Nicole in the computer lab they are finally on the path to a potential relationship, until Nicole wins a photography scholarship Quinn also wanted and creates a wedge between the two girls. Years later Nicole is a well established photographer and has returned home to work on a month long tourism campaign for her home town, only to find out her partner on the project is Quinn.

Over the course of the holidays the two become reacquainted and realize their crushes are alive and well.
Nicole and Quinn’s relationship is pretty believable, their shared past causes them to be hesitant in the beginning and they do a fairly good job early on confronting their issues in high school. Throughout the story they get closer and seem to be processing pretty well. They start building a strong foundation until Quinn is once again confronted with the idea Nicole might just be a better photographer, and loses it.

I had a lot of trouble liking Quinn. While I do believe the other characters are equally as annoyed with her, and she does get a stern talking to by multiple characters, I hate that she took her insecurities out on Nicole on more than one occasion.

It was a nice read. It touches on jealousy and lets you see that sometimes it can cloud one's mind if not resolved and may take years to get over for some people. I liked the main characters and support secondary characters provided. I recommend 4 stars

Thank you, Bold Strokes Books, and NetGalley.

I'll admit, I struggled through this book and did not finish it. The overarching theme of old flames reunited was sweet but I struggled to truly feel any connection between the main characters. I do love a Christmas themed book though and really appreciated those elements.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ebook in exchange for an honest review.

3. Stars. Nicole Steele left her small mountain town and thought she would never look back. She moves back home to take photos for the tourism campaign, but she finds out she has to take photos with her high school rival and crush, Quinn Zelinski. Quinn and Nicole had one kiss but then never talked about it since Nicole moved away. It might turn into something more as they can't help but spend time together.

Some of the drama in this book felt a little childish. I felt like the drama was a little too predictable. I really liked this concept and this book otherwise. I loved the tension between the two characters and how they acted around each other. The writing was decent but not amazing. I really enjoyed the tension and how they both liked each other in high school but did not act on it. The childish part of the drama made me not give this book a higher review. I am not sure I would re-read it but it was a decent read the first time. I liked the Christmas theme and how it was the center of the book.

Picture-Perfect Christmas is a romance set in the Christmas season in a snowy Colorado.

Two women who knew each other years ago find each other a romance is kindled.

A fun fast paced read for the season.

Nicole and Quinn are both photographers that grew up in a small snowy town in Colorado, Glenwood Springs. They liked each other in high school, but that didn’t end well. Now, almost 20 years later, they have both been hired to take pictures for the town’s holiday tourism campaign. Nicole and Quinn are forced to confront their past as they work together to take photos around town. Will their second chance at love be successful this time or will it just end in heartbreak again? Only time will tell.

I really enjoyed the details of the holiday-themed activities that Nicole and Quinn participate in. Their photo shoots were also interesting to read about. Quinn’s friend group was amazing, and I love how welcoming they were to Nicole. At the end of the book, there is a conflict between Nicole and Quinn, one that I saw coming. However, the resolution was just too fast for me, especially since the rest of the book was slower. It would make more sense for the resolution to the conflict to have been longer and told from both characters’ points of view. Other than that, it was a great second-chance holiday romance. I give it 3/5 stars. I would recommend it to anyone that likes sapphic holiday-themed books!

A fun holiday read about two girls getting a second chance at love. An easy read - I felt a bit weird about the parents, and didn't completely feel the connections between Quinn and Nicole, and did find the story a little slow. I loved the winter christmas vibes and the friendships in the book, the romance just felt a little flat to me. This is still fine for a queer holiday read.

Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced digital copy.
It was a short and easy to read Christmas romance. I did like the characters but the drama between them didn't make much sense. Also, their parents started dating later on making the two main characters step-sisters. I stopped reading after that.

A slow read for me, mainly because the opening made no sense. We start with the two main characters as teens with crushes on each other, just as things could get interesting, Quin completely falls out with Nicole, for a completely nonsensical reason. If you are going to use the trope of a rupture and repair, it does need to be believable. We meet them again many years later when they are both photographing the snowy mountain regions. I enjoyed the photography sections of the book best of all, the attention to detail here was wonderful. Overall an ok read.

With thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was an ok book but certainly not as good as the last one. I did finish it but it isn't one that I would re-read. Sorry about that but it is just my opinion, I am sure others will love it.

Thanks to Netgalley and publisher for this ARC

I didn’t love this. It was a quick read, but felt very forced at times. It could have used more editing. There were a few places where I found typos or things that made no sense with the story. It could have been better.

ARC received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I read Greene’s The Wedding Setup last year and found it ok, but I didn’t enjoy this one. The premise was interesting, but the story didn’t live up to it.

The MCs are Nicole and Quinn who grew up in the same small town and were interested in each other in high school but just as they were getting together something happens that causes an argument and Nicole then leaves town and becomes a famous photographer. Quinn is also a photographer and both she and Nicole are hired to shoot an advertising campaign (though I couldn’t work out why they were both needed).

Nicole is back in town for about six weeks as a result and working together of-course forces them back in contact and they become closer. I liked Nicole, but could not warm to Quinn, especially since the ‘issue’ that forced them apart was just her being ridiculous and unfairly blaming Nicole for her issues. The same issue the crops up again in the book, making Quinn even less likeable. The only thing I liked about that part of the book was that everyone, including Quinn’s BFF and other friends, calls her out for this. She then has to make a grand gesture that leads to the HEA but I couldn’t buy into it, Nicole deserved better and the epilogue was too neat for me, especially in regards to Quinn. I also could have lived without the parents side story. 2.5 stars.

Nicole and Quinn almost had a thing together in high school, but after a ugly break they haven't seen each other for 20 years. Now they have to work together on a photography project in their hometown. This was a cute and fast read, and I loved that it was LGBT without making it a big deal. It was a bit boring and cliche, and the dramatic parts felt exaggerated. I think I would have liked it better if they didn’t make up so fast. Some of the dialogue were unrealistic, and the feelings felt overacted. Also they acted a bit younger than their age. I would recommend it as a cozy read, but not very exciting.