A Very Stalker Christmas by Layla Fae
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
My neighbor believes in Christmas magic. That’s because someone takes out her trash, does her dishes and laundry, clears snow from her driveway, and puts up Christmas decorations in her house.
A Very Stalker Christmas
She has no idea it’s me, her stalker neighbor, who watches her every move. Seeing only the good around her, she fails to notice I also steal her panties and curtains. She doesn’t know I’m in her bedroom every night.
What I do is for her protection as much as for my pleasure. Emma loves to help, often bringing sick or lost animals into her home. She takes on way too much, sometimes forgetting to care for her own needs. I make sure she has food on her table, gas in her tank, and a safe, salted driveway.
It works out perfectly until she decides to make me her next pet project. I can’t risk being discovered, and even though I want nothing more than to be with her, it’s impossible. War trauma has left me unable to speak unless I wear a mask.
I know for a fact someone as innocent as her will never accept my creepy ways. Nothing, not even the magic of Christmas, will bring us together.
Even though I secretly wish it would.
Christmas stalking!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙💜❤️💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: 🙂🥰😎😄
The Hero: Logan – he has a condition called traumatic mutism. Meaning he is mute, and it was caused by trauma, which is often a symptom of PTSD. His tongue freezes in his mouth when he is out in public with his face bare. He has been stalking his neighbor Emma for over six months since he first moved in across the street. He was in the military for years, but since he was injured in a mission that went bad, he got discharged and now he is a hacker who steals cryptocurrency.
The heroine: Emma – she is a bleeding heart, and she is always bringing home sick, injured or lost animals and people in trouble. On the occasions when she can’t save an animal, she cries about each one. She is such a good-hearted person, that it is hard for her to imagine that others aren’t just like her. She works at the library in town and volunteers at a cat shelter in between taking care of the random people and animals she brings home.
The Story: Logan doesn’t just watch Emma through his binoculars, he does things for her, like fills her car up with gas while she is sleeping, puts gifts in her home, like large, scented candles, washes her windows, does chores around her house while she is at work and more. He knows she thinks that it is being done by someone who is shy but has pure motives, if she only knew how impure his thoughts of her were, she would run away screaming.
“Emma is not stupid. That’s not it. She’s simply so incapable of seeing the evil and darkness in the world, it hasn’t even crossed her mind that her creep of a neighbor might be breaking into her place every night to sniff her panties and fantasize about doing vile things to her while she sleeps.”
I love stalker romance, and I love holiday romance so how could I go wrong with this one? The only thing I didn’t like after reading the blurb was the length, I wish it was a novel rather than a novella. At only 105 pages, I didn’t think it would be long enough to really get much of a romance, but it was a full story, and I was happy with it. I always knew that actually having a stalker in real life is much different than stalker romance, but I loved how this one began. I totally wouldn’t mind having a stalker if he cleaned my house, washed my car, shoveled my snow and gave me presents all the time. I mean if you are going to have a stalker, that is certainly the kind to have.
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