Danielle Allen

Spread Joy

Kadisha 

This book is the perfect amount of Christmas spirit and Christmas smutt!!! The story begins with Joy volunteering for an event where you spend the evening bringing joy and light to the unfortunate and ill during the holiday season. While Joy is receiving instructions on how the event will go and all the places they will visit, her first love from high school, James, shows up and lord do they make up for lost time!!! 😏

When I tell you I’m so ready to book a bus trip for my husband and I so I can experience what James did to Joy’s body on that bus!!!! That scene will forever live rent free in my head!!! This book was so good that I’m pissed that it ended so fast!! You will definitely want to live out all your Christmas “dreams” with this one!

Tanya 

Here we have a story that follows James & Joy who are high school sweethearts but drifted apart in college. Tonight they’re forced to be together on Christmas Eve because they both volunteered to hand out gifts at Children’s hospital. THIS SHIT WAS SO GOOD!!! Would I change anything about it? No. Did I want it to be longer? Hell Yes😩

There was no bad blood between these two so when they run into each other it’s immediate catching up and old banter as you would expect with people who’ve know each other for a while. James is a total flirt and from the jump he starts flirting with Joy on the bus ride there. Joy was eating up all that MF attention & I was cheesing right along with her.

After handing out the first round of gifts to the kids Joy gets a little bit emotional & the way James comforts her ouffffff LOVE THAT. There’s so many tiny flirtatious and fun moments between them until the tension finally cracks ON THE BUS & bitch I could barely breathe it was so damn hot 🥵 the way he asked her permission every step of the way. The way he makes his intentions clear & the way he shows his blatant attraction for her UGH I love a man that exudes confidence & is sure of himself.

I always feels the need to talk about how perfectly Danielle Allen writes her male characters they literally tick all the boxes you can think of. Especially consent and it’s done in such a classy and effective way you can’t help but admire it. I loved everything about this hot holiday hookup it’s a close second to Booed Up. If you haven’t read anything by Danielle yet take this as your starting point you won’t be disappointed. It’s not on KU at the moment but it is available on Amazon for ebook purchase.

Alexandra 

I loved this so much!!! Another perfect holiday novella. This is my first Danielle Allen book and I can’t wait to read more of her books! 

High school sweethearts who broke up after their freshmen year of high school….reunite after their senior year of college to volunteer for charity on Christmas Eve. 

This was perfection: so many amazing butterfly moments that made me just 🥺🥺🥺 his entire commentary on her natural hair and how he SEES HER. HE HAS SEEN HER. Just made me fall in love with James. The cute little moments between them as they rekindle their love was so well done. 

The spice: also freaking great! That school bus scene!!! OMGGGGG !!! We have praise, we had a dash of breeding kïnk, and a little bit of exhibitionism. 

LOVED EVERY SECOND.