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While It Was Snowing
While It Was Snowing first appeared in the duology Holiday for Two.
Felicity Evans and Harry Walsh have been best friends forever, but lately, Felicity has noticed the looks Harry has been giving her. And she's going to do something about it. Sex solves everything, or so she hopes. But she never knew Harry was a virgin--until now. Being snowbound in a Vermont cabin is the perfect opportunity to take things to the next level . . . and perhaps dare to lay her heart out on the line.
This also includes the first chapter from Four Weddings and a Break Up.
Felicity Evans and Harry Walsh have been best friends forever, but lately, Felicity has noticed the looks Harry has been giving her. And she's going to do something about it. Sex solves everything, or so she hopes. But she never knew Harry was a virgin--until now. Being snowbound in a Vermont cabin is the perfect opportunity to take things to the next level . . . and perhaps dare to lay her heart out on the line.
This also includes the first chapter from Four Weddings and a Break Up.
74 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 10, 2014
138 people want to read
About the author
Elyssa Patrick
17 books262 followersElyssa Patrick writes romances that have a lot of heat, humor, and heart--and they always have a happily ever after. Elyssa lives in Upstate New York and is working on her next novel.
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December 28, 2015
I scooped up this free Kindle book because of the friends to lover trope and the virgin hero. Harry is a beta hero and a total nerd. He’s an accountant by trade who wears bowties, and he’s a 29-year old virgin. Unfortunately, the story was underwhelming. When the blurb mentions “sex” and that the hero is a virgin, I expect some deflowering to happen. But it never happened, at least not on the page. I would have gladly traded the epilogue for at least one sexy time scene. Or have an epilogue that takes place a year or two later, instead of 35 years later. Because of the lack of intimacy, I really didn’t feel any chemistry between Felicity and Harry. While It Was Snowing started off in the right direction but ultimately it fell short.
December 20, 2014
Don't bother with this novella. Its sole purpose is to get you to read the teaser that's the entire last 30% of the book.
The premise sounded good. It's your basic friends to lovers story and the hero is a nerdy accountant. That's all to the good as I'm an accountant myself. I'm more or less happily reading the story, not really loving the characters, but I'm thinking there's someone for everyone, every pot has a lid, etc. right up until the heroine starts going on about how sexy she finds the hero's yellow bow tie with red hearts. Now I have read some weird shit, but wow. I always thought the girlfriend was taking one for the team when her boyfriend felt the need to be ironic.
Not deterred, I kept reading. If I can get through Styxx, I can get through anything. However, the book just stops at the 70% mark. Boom. No payoff. All we get is an epilogue set 35 years later telling us the characters got married. This type of romance always has an HEA so long term togetherness was a given. An epilogue isn't anywhere near the same thing as a conclusion and I thought this substitution made reading this novella a waste of time.
The premise sounded good. It's your basic friends to lovers story and the hero is a nerdy accountant. That's all to the good as I'm an accountant myself. I'm more or less happily reading the story, not really loving the characters, but I'm thinking there's someone for everyone, every pot has a lid, etc. right up until the heroine starts going on about how sexy she finds the hero's yellow bow tie with red hearts. Now I have read some weird shit, but wow. I always thought the girlfriend was taking one for the team when her boyfriend felt the need to be ironic.
Not deterred, I kept reading. If I can get through Styxx, I can get through anything. However, the book just stops at the 70% mark. Boom. No payoff. All we get is an epilogue set 35 years later telling us the characters got married. This type of romance always has an HEA so long term togetherness was a given. An epilogue isn't anywhere near the same thing as a conclusion and I thought this substitution made reading this novella a waste of time.
April 19, 2014
This was utterly charming with a bold curvy woman without the body issues that plague so many BBW in Romance and a friends to lover seduction that is funny, tender, and real.
Harry is a wonderful risk adverse virgin hero with a bow tie. Yum.
It is all the small touches that make this such a lovely find of a romance. The writer is very meta about the conflict. At first there doesn't seem like there is going to be any (and I was fine with that myself as two people always have friction just by being and that is enough for me) but the heroine actually comments on it. And then it doesn't go so well. Its humorous and it is all endearing.
Warning. The book is a sexy times tease. We don't get any really despite the foul mouthed heroine and the erotic tension that is flush in this novella.
None the less: A warm happy hot coco of a Christmas time read. I am picking up this Patrick's backlist!
Harry is a wonderful risk adverse virgin hero with a bow tie. Yum.
It is all the small touches that make this such a lovely find of a romance. The writer is very meta about the conflict. At first there doesn't seem like there is going to be any (and I was fine with that myself as two people always have friction just by being and that is enough for me) but the heroine actually comments on it. And then it doesn't go so well. Its humorous and it is all endearing.
Warning. The book is a sexy times tease. We don't get any really despite the foul mouthed heroine and the erotic tension that is flush in this novella.
None the less: A warm happy hot coco of a Christmas time read. I am picking up this Patrick's backlist!
February 17, 2015
Nothing new, you have a cabin, a blizzard, two people what do you think is going to happen. I wanted to see how many pages it had, and went to Amazon, I can't find it anymore, I didn't know they could totally just take it off, but I guess they can. So this review is just for GR eyes!
The story flowed well enough, it wasn't one of those that I couldn't put down. But since it was short I finished it in a day. The MC were ok. It's left in a cliffhanger sort of but then it skips like 40 years which was odd. I don't understand why since I don't see a second one.
The story flowed well enough, it wasn't one of those that I couldn't put down. But since it was short I finished it in a day. The MC were ok. It's left in a cliffhanger sort of but then it skips like 40 years which was odd. I don't understand why since I don't see a second one.
March 16, 2015
Terrible writing. No logical romantic development, the characters had no distinctive voices, too much narrative & navel gazing.
December 18, 2014
Cute and funny. A nice way to get some wintery romantic vibes with lots of humour to spice it up a bit.
October 14, 2024
This was so awful. I can only hope it was free or maybe a dollar. The writing, characters and story were all terrible.
June 6, 2014
This novella was originally released around Christmas s part of a duet and I wrote a review of it then. It’s being re-released today on it’s own so I’m re-posting my review as well (which was originally posted elsewhere too) because I really, really loved it!
Elyssa Patrick’s novella, While it was Snowing, is up next. I’m a fan of this author’s other work and I was completely not disappointed. I loved her book Stay With Me from last year which is a low angst New Adult book. This novella is completely different – zero angst and more adult. So I was super happy to see that I still loved her voice in a different area.
The scene opens with Felicity, naked, whip creaming herself into a bikini for her best friend Harry, who has no idea this is going on. The opening scene had me laughing at the vivid description of Felicity trying to figure this out and then realizing how freaking cold the whip cream actually was. Immediately I love Felicity. She comes across as extremely confident, plus size, cursing and hilarious. I adore her. She owns a company called Fat Lady Sweets. Love. Her.
When Harry gets there I’m even more in love. He’s an adorable beta nerd who has no idea how cute he is, wears a bow tie and ruffles his hair. Oh, and he’s a virgin. Let me remind you that Felicity is naked, well – in a whip cream bikini of sorts. Chaos ensues. Harry produces a contract, which is my second favorite moment. We don’t see the entire thing (which is almost 17 pages) but I wish we could have because I was laughing at every single point.
My favorite moment is the spider of death moment because I was truly laughing out loud here.
A big, nasty, black spider. Waiting for her. Planning to kill her.
And then it started to move.
She screamed.
And screamed.
And screamed some more.
She scrambled out of the shower, keeping her eye on the Spider of Death and took the shower curtain with her. Her legs tangled with the fabric and oh my God, what if there were more spiders on the shower curtain? What if they were climbing on her body right now and laying spider eggs everywhere?
Okay, obviously there is way more to this than this snippet but seriously I was laughing so hard at certain parts. I thoroughly enjoyed this and thought it was a great read. Not everyone can write good novellas- and I thought this one was just about perfect.
Overall I give this novella 4.5 stars. It releases today and is only 99 cents! For this price I highly recommend it.
I received an ARC in return for an honest review.
Elyssa Patrick’s novella, While it was Snowing, is up next. I’m a fan of this author’s other work and I was completely not disappointed. I loved her book Stay With Me from last year which is a low angst New Adult book. This novella is completely different – zero angst and more adult. So I was super happy to see that I still loved her voice in a different area.
The scene opens with Felicity, naked, whip creaming herself into a bikini for her best friend Harry, who has no idea this is going on. The opening scene had me laughing at the vivid description of Felicity trying to figure this out and then realizing how freaking cold the whip cream actually was. Immediately I love Felicity. She comes across as extremely confident, plus size, cursing and hilarious. I adore her. She owns a company called Fat Lady Sweets. Love. Her.
When Harry gets there I’m even more in love. He’s an adorable beta nerd who has no idea how cute he is, wears a bow tie and ruffles his hair. Oh, and he’s a virgin. Let me remind you that Felicity is naked, well – in a whip cream bikini of sorts. Chaos ensues. Harry produces a contract, which is my second favorite moment. We don’t see the entire thing (which is almost 17 pages) but I wish we could have because I was laughing at every single point.
My favorite moment is the spider of death moment because I was truly laughing out loud here.
A big, nasty, black spider. Waiting for her. Planning to kill her.
And then it started to move.
She screamed.
And screamed.
And screamed some more.
She scrambled out of the shower, keeping her eye on the Spider of Death and took the shower curtain with her. Her legs tangled with the fabric and oh my God, what if there were more spiders on the shower curtain? What if they were climbing on her body right now and laying spider eggs everywhere?
Okay, obviously there is way more to this than this snippet but seriously I was laughing so hard at certain parts. I thoroughly enjoyed this and thought it was a great read. Not everyone can write good novellas- and I thought this one was just about perfect.
Overall I give this novella 4.5 stars. It releases today and is only 99 cents! For this price I highly recommend it.
I received an ARC in return for an honest review.
May 13, 2015
Like all romance novels, its about opening you heart and taking risks. But in While It Was Snowing, it is done with a cup of humor, a teaspoon of heat and a whole batch of whip cream.
Elyssa Patrick made such a good contrast between Outspoken Felicity and nerdy, geeky Harry. She used it very well to emphasize how different they are and yet how great they go together. It is a very welcomed reversal of roles.
I loved how it was Felicity who tried to do everything to charm Harry. Yes, sometimes, the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, with some caramel apple pie, maybe. Felicity is the stronger character, and that her being a woman with curves is non issue. Then she hatches that crazy plan plan to confess. Perfect, in her head, but not perfect in execution.
But Harry, the insecure virgin, who reads romance novels (Nicholas Spark, to be precise. How can you not love him?), had to just say no. Harry is such a sweet character, who absolutely worships Felicity. But his fear of losing his goddess holds him from opening his heart to her, thus a hilarious 16 page contract outlining how things should be.
And I truly felt for Felicity as the difference between how they want to go about achieving what they want comes to a climax, each unable to accurately say what they want and what they truly feel. It was also such a touching scene as Harry imagined a future without her.
While It Was Snowing is a great novella, with a lot of humor and a lot of teasing. Set in a cabin in the middle of winter in Vermont, the cold temperature perfectly contrasts the warmth of Felicity and Harry’s love. It is absolutely true love between them, for true is the love of a man who sacrifices his book to kill a spider for the safety of a woman (says this book lover who’s writing the review). Its about taking that next step after friendship, because there are just some things worth jumping into with our eyes closed.
Elyssa Patrick made such a good contrast between Outspoken Felicity and nerdy, geeky Harry. She used it very well to emphasize how different they are and yet how great they go together. It is a very welcomed reversal of roles.
I loved how it was Felicity who tried to do everything to charm Harry. Yes, sometimes, the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, with some caramel apple pie, maybe. Felicity is the stronger character, and that her being a woman with curves is non issue. Then she hatches that crazy plan plan to confess. Perfect, in her head, but not perfect in execution.
But Harry, the insecure virgin, who reads romance novels (Nicholas Spark, to be precise. How can you not love him?), had to just say no. Harry is such a sweet character, who absolutely worships Felicity. But his fear of losing his goddess holds him from opening his heart to her, thus a hilarious 16 page contract outlining how things should be.
And I truly felt for Felicity as the difference between how they want to go about achieving what they want comes to a climax, each unable to accurately say what they want and what they truly feel. It was also such a touching scene as Harry imagined a future without her.
While It Was Snowing is a great novella, with a lot of humor and a lot of teasing. Set in a cabin in the middle of winter in Vermont, the cold temperature perfectly contrasts the warmth of Felicity and Harry’s love. It is absolutely true love between them, for true is the love of a man who sacrifices his book to kill a spider for the safety of a woman (says this book lover who’s writing the review). Its about taking that next step after friendship, because there are just some things worth jumping into with our eyes closed.
December 7, 2014
What can I say. Cute story. Cute premise. Bow-tied virgin hero. Snow storm.
This is a great "I need to be asleep in an hour and I don't want to start a book I can't put down but I need something to read" resource.
Very, very quick read. Competently written. I really wish there was a full story here because I think it has potential to be really, really good.
I will keep my eye open for others by Ms. Patrick.
This is a great "I need to be asleep in an hour and I don't want to start a book I can't put down but I need something to read" resource.
Very, very quick read. Competently written. I really wish there was a full story here because I think it has potential to be really, really good.
I will keep my eye open for others by Ms. Patrick.
December 26, 2014
This was adorable. Given that it's such a short story, the reader gets to know a lot about Harry and Felicity and though the central conflict isn't really that complicated I was still charmed. Heroes in these kinds of books are rarely like Harry so it was refreshing. Just wish we had a little bit more about what takes place between the final chapter and the epilogue, but nevertheless this short but oh so sweet story did the trick.
December 20, 2014
Cute short Christmas story, but too much misunderstanding between two people who were suppose to be best friends. The different times that they misunderstood each other made me want to bash their heads in.
August 3, 2015
While it was Snowing had very cute characters and was a self-contained novella / short story. The second half was slow-moving and, at times, draggy with the “will they, won’t they” agony. Even so, I enjoyed the story.
January 24, 2015
Sweet and funny! I laughed out loud. Twice.
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December 11, 2014
This is a quick read, maybe an hour or less depending on how you choose to process the emotional impact of Felicity and Harry's story.
I particularly loved the 35 years later epilogue.
I particularly loved the 35 years later epilogue.
December 31, 2014
Ugh. Undeveloped characters even for a novella.
March 1, 2015
the whole book was an argument.
boring.
I kept waiting for them to actually sleep together but all they did was kiss.
boring.
I kept waiting for them to actually sleep together but all they did was kiss.
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