{"id":25622,"date":"2026-01-13T13:39:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=25622"},"modified":"2026-03-22T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:56:00","slug":"the-mistletoe-motive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/25622","title":{"rendered":"The Mistletoe Motive"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mistletoe Motive<\/em><\/a> (2021) Chloe Liese<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheThere is a lot I love about this story: the ace rep, the female lead with ASD, the single point-of-view. <\/p>\n

Jonathan glances up and meets my eyes, his gaze speaking some cryptic language that I don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

I hate that feeling. It\u2019s old and familiar, and it never fails to scrape open the scab of my social struggles. I\u2019m a neurodivergent girl in a neurotypical world, and my autistic brain doesn\u2019t read people the way Jonathan Tactical-Mastermind Frost\u2019s does. It\u2019s one of the very first things that made me dislike him: I can feel his cunning, his cold, calculating mind. He has what I don\u2019t, he sees what I can\u2019t, and he wields those weapons ruthlessly. It\u2019s exactly why the Baileys hired him.<\/p>\n

Because he\u2019s everything I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

And in my worst moments, that makes me feel like I\u2019m not enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Especially the single point-of-view; you the reader and figure out what is going on, but Natalie doesn’t, and you know why, and that makes the story.<\/p>\n

But, there is a a lot of sex in this book, and it’s a short book. Yes, I skimmed\/skipped those parts, but since the boinking was much of the last parts of the book it left me feeling dissatisfied.<\/p>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Miss Gabriella Di Natale, Mr. Jonathan Frost, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, Trey Potter, June Li, Elijah Goldberg, Gingerbread, Nicholas Sokolov<\/p>\n

Cover by Leni Kauffman<\/p>\n

Publisher: Kobo Originals<\/p>\n

Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mistletoe Motive (2021) Chloe Liese There is a lot I love about this story: the ace rep, the female lead with ASD, the single point-of-view. Jonathan glances up and meets my eyes, his gaze speaking some cryptic language that I don\u2019t. I hate that feeling. 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