Better Not Pout

By: Annabeth Albert

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

One hard-nosed military police officer.
One overly enthusiastic elf.
One poorly timed snowstorm.

Is it a recipe for disaster, or a once in a lifetime opportunity for holiday romance?

Teddy MacNally loves Christmas and everything that goes along with it. When he plays an elf for his charity’s events, he never expects to be paired with a Scrooge masquerading as Santa Claus. His new mission: make the holiday-hating soldier believe he was born to say ho-ho-ho.

Sergeant Major Nicholas Nowicki doesn’t do Santa, but he’s army to his blood. When his CO asks an unusual favor, Nick of course obliges. The elf to his Kris Kringle? Tempting. Too tempting—Nick’s only in town for another month, and Teddy’s too young, too cheerful and too nice for a one-night stand.

The slow, sexy make-out sessions while Teddy and Nick are alone and snowbound, though, feel like anything but a quick hookup. As a stress-free holiday fling turns into Christmas all year round, Teddy can’t imagine his life without Nick. And Nick’s days on the base may be coming to a close, but he doesn’t plan on leaving anything, or anyone, behind.

Also by Annabeth Albert:

Shore Leave
Book 1: Sailor Proof
Book 2: Sink or Swim

Out of Uniform
Book 1: Off Base
Book 2: At Attention
Book 3: On Point
Book 4: Wheels Up
Book 5: Squared Away
Book 6: Tight Quarters
Book 7: Rough Terrain

Jaw dropping

I love absolutely everything about this! They narrator’s different tones and the way the story just seems to flow! It’s incredible and I just wanna reread it already !!

So entertaining

Between Annabeth Albert’s words and Sean Crisden’s performance I can’t say enough how much I loved this!! Every character had their own voice and depth, the performance making it so easy to fall into their world. I laughed, I sighed, I absolutely loved every second of it and never wanted it to end.

Sweet

So sweet, but just the right amount of sweet. And hot and funny..
And very enjoyable narrated, highly recommendable.

Sweet and loving

Great book that was sweet and hot with low angst. These two make a great couple! Fast movingwith a quick realization of love.

Totally packed an emotional punch, in a good way.

I went into this one expecting it to be more lighthearted from the premise, but as the story progressed, it was anything but. And that’s totally fine too, because the range of emotions was as exquisite as it was bittersweet—and since the description states there’s a HEA, I don’t feel it’s spoilers to say that obviously yes everything ends up in a good spot. But getting there made me FEEL, a lot. This is the second of Annabeth Albert’s books, and once again its emotional depth and feeling has me literally tearing up. This one was a solid 4/4.5 stars for me at the beginning, but by the end, it had totally won me over for a full 5 stars.