He wondered how he’d ever gotten so lucky.
RJ Scott
The Christmas Throwaway
Format:
Audiobook
Publisher’s Synopsis:
For Zachary Weston Christmas means sleeping on a churchyard bench in the freezing snow with nothing better in his future. Thrown out of his home for being gay, he is left without money or, it seems, anywhere to go. Until a stranger shows him that some people do give a lot more than a damn.
Ben Hamilton is a rookie cop in his small home town. He finds a young throwaway, fresh from the city, sleeping on a bench in the churchyard on a snowy Christmas Eve. Can he be the one to give Zachary his own Christmas miracle?
Point of view:
3rd person. Alternating by chapter between Leo & Jason’s perspectives.
Rellim’s Thoughts:
While this starts out with a heartbreaking story – overall this novella is fairly low angst and super, super sweet. Police Officer Ben finds newly homeless Zach and brings him home. While Zach is just days from being 18, he’s lived a sheltered life and needs time and space to find out who he is before he’s ready for a relationship with mid-twenties Ben.
While I wish Scott had expanded on Zach’s growth a bit more and the stages of his relationship with Ben – I appreciated that the story took place over several years. It wasn’t an immediate jump for them.
Another sweet addition to my holiday listens.
Narration:
Sean Crisden is wonderful as usual.
About the author:
RJ is the author of the over one hundred novels and discovered romance in books at a very young age. She realized that if there wasn’t romance on the page, she could create it in her head, and is a lifelong writer.
She lives and works out of her home in the beautiful English countryside, spends her spare time reading, watching films, and enjoying time with her family.
The last time she had a week’s break from writing she didn’t like it one little bit and has yet to meet a bottle of wine she couldn’t defeat.
You can connect with RJ Scott here:
About the narrator:
From Crisden’s website: I have been a professional voice artist since 2006 (wait, people pay me for this?) but my history extends further than that. As a child, I was known as “Radio Man” for the articulate, listenable qualities within my voice. I don’t know any other kid who took quite so much pleasure in standing up and reading out loud “Tikki Tikki Tembo” or “Bunnicula” for their class.
This lead to an early pursuit of performing and I performed for nearly a decade with the prog rock band Divided Sky as vocalist and guitar player. I have expanded my abilities into on-camera acting, appearing in numerous commercials and films including M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Last Airbender”. I was even fortunate enough to act in and choreograph the combat sequences in “Le Meduse Rouge”.
I continue to grow, develop and refine my talents in an ongoing effort to find fulfillment by drinking of my creative well. I also train in several martial arts and do my best despite the lure of my bed and apple pie to stay in excellent physical shape.
You can connect with Sean Crisden here:
My Favorite Quotes
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