Title: Willa's Christmas Wish
Author: Janet Butler Male
Date: 2023
Publisher: Amazon
Quote: "I fell in love with Celeste."
Willa was married when she "fell in love with" a co-worker, who reminded her of Endora from "Bewitched," who encouraged her to be more selfish and hedonistic. Specifically, leave her husband for a more attractive man, who had also been married to someone else, but never mind. Everyone's better off when people have found the right pheromone mix for really sizzling sex. Aren't they?
Er. Um. What if the secret to really sizzling sex has to do with an individual's own hormones, actually, and all those hunks of burnin' lust and torrid little passion pits are going to be more miserable than ever if they get together and then realize that, in between the peaks of her estrus cycles, they do not actually like each other--and both of them are selfish, hedonistic spoiled brats?
Janet Butler Male's holiday fantasy totally does not work for me. Aunts don't confess to any sizzling one-night flings, as it would embarrass their nieces and nephews, so don't ask me how I know that the most intense sensations of our fertile years do come from our own hormones. We can have torrid nights alone, if we accept this. We can have torrid nights with other hotties whose primary concern is keeping everything safe and avoiding commitments. But settling down and having children is all about finding love, not of our own little sensations, which will come and go until one day they just go, but of a Partner for Life. Aunts just know this in a magical way that happens when our first nieces and nephews were born. Oh, well, maybe we learned some things by listening sympathetically to friends.
If, however, this kind of fantasy appeals to you, Willa's Christmas Wish is it--a totally secular, selfish, hedonistic holiday fantasy. Enjoy.
Maybe I picked this book for "the unluckiest day of the year" because I do think that being able to relate to this fantasy is a bit of bad luck. Still, it does seem to appeal to a lot of, well, extroverts Out There.
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