25 Reasons to Hate Christmas and Cowboys

Dirty Cowboy

De: Elle Thorpe

Narrado por: Sofia Lette, Aaron Shedlock

Reason 17: The year Nana drank too much eggnog and threw up in my Guccis.

Isabel hates Christmas. She’s got a Christmas disaster for each of her 25 years. When her boss sends her from the sun-kissed beaches of Australia to snowy small-town Wyoming, it’s just another thing to add to her "do not like" list. Snow sucks. Christmas sucks. And cowboys suck most of all.

Except, maybe, for one....

Reason 21: The year my workplace secret Santa bought me tampons. From the bathroom vending machine.

Johnny loves Christmas. And it only gets better when he lays eyes on a grinchy brunette with the cutest accent around. She might only be in town for a few weeks, but he’s never been one to back down from a challenge. He’s going to right every wrong on her list to make her fall in love with Christmas.

And with him.

Reason 25: The year I fell for a sexy cowboy. Who lives on the other side of the world. What the hell do I do now?

©2023 Elle Thorpe Pty Ltd (P)2023 Elle Thorpe Pty Ltd

I love Sofia and Aaron together!!!

Oh my goodness....what an adorable little Christmas/Holiday story. Whether you like to consume your holiday reading via ebook, paperback, or audiobook....I definitely recommend this one.

Aaron Shedlock and Sofia Lette are so adorable as Johnny and Isabelle. Sofia has such a beautiful voice and throw in that Australian accent and she is a perfect Isabelle. Aaron Shedlock has that relaxed tone to his voice and he is a great match with Sofia.

Isabelle is in the US for her job during the Christmas season and she despises it because she is not a fan of Christmas. She has a list of every reason why she doesn't like it and when she meets Johnny West he becomes intent on righting all the Christmas wrongs she has experienced. The whirlwind romance that forms was so fun.

Fun, sweet Christmas romance

This is a wonderful, heartwarming Christmas romance for two people finding themselves in love when they weren’t looking.

Isabelle is in Wyoming on a work visa and is returning to home to Sydney, Australia on December 26 and is not planning on meeting anyone while in Wyoming, because she’s too cold to think about going anywhere in the Wyoming winter, but she wasn’t expecting on Johnny to be too cute, sweet and irresistible.

Johnny West is all cowboy and competes in the rodeo circuit and he has fallen head over heels in love with the sassy, Christmas hating Scrooge, Isabelle and he’s made it his mission to get her to fall in love with Christmas 🎄 💕
The narration was done really well

Mehhhh it was ok…

This definitely wasn't my favorite book, and considering how short it was, I expected to finish it in a day or so, but it took me days. I just wasn’t excited to read it or listen to the audiobook. I don’t know why, but the story didn’t connect for me. The audiobook narrators did a good job; I just didn’t love the overall story. It was a bit too cutesy, insta-love for me. And there wasn’t much humor, either. The blurb made me think there would be more comedic moments, but there really wasn’t much going on within the story.

Sometimes salty and sweet don’t make a great treat

For a series under the moniker Dirty Cowboy, I expected a lot more sizzle and sass. Unfortunately, after the peppy meet-cute, the rest of the “I hate Christmas” romance was mild and sweet. There was zero conflict or energy until the end, and that was thankfully resolved with proper novella quickness.

The sex was decidedly more salty, and there are a handful of F bombs, so this is not the Christmas cozy
I was expecting. That’s probably my fault for buying based on the cartoon cover and not looking at the author’s other books. Even though though the sex is more detailed, I can’t say that sizzled for me either.

Ultimately, this was an okay romance with a good dose of Christmas activities, two or three naughty scenes for good novella value, and even an epilogue squeezed in. The duet narration served up her Aussie accent and his Wyoming voice perfectly.