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Carson is a California transplant settling into life in the Windy City. On his first Christmas away from home, he assures his worried family he’ll be having a real Christmas dinner.

Recent culinary school graduate Tom Stockton earns some extra money giving out cooking advice at the Talk Turkey hotline. Tom’s honeyed voice and sharp sense of humor are attractive to the lonely Carson, and Carson finds reasons to call the hotline again and again. But on Christmas Eve, Carson’s call is less playful and more panicked with the big meal looming. Carson is just looking for advice, but Tom has a surprise in store that might lead to much more.

A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2015 Advent Calendar package "Sleigh Ride".

 

Book Review

A hotline for getting advice on how to deal with making a turkey? Sign me up! Since I am about as illiterate in the kitchen as Carson, if not more so, I was able to sympathize with him all the way when he was stressing over preparing a turkey for Christmas. His solution of calling the Talk Turkey hotline has never been available to me, so I was eager to find out what would happen once he gathered his courage and called for help.

Carson has recently moved too far away from his family for a quick visit, and his new job doesn’t allow him the luxury of taking a few days off over Christmas so he can make the trip to enjoy his mother’s cooking. I laughed when at least half of the first call ended up being social rather than focused on the secrets of turkey preparation. But Carson is so lonely, that he soon calls again. He hits it off with Tom, even though it’s pathetic and he knows it can’t ever turn into anything real. Then the turkey takes Cason hostage (you have to read this to believe it – it’s hysterical), and Carson’s next call to Tom is a lot more panicked and leads to a totally unexpected result – including some very “unsanitary practices”.

If you like Christmas stories with a touch of humor, if a hotline-romance sounds interesting, and if you’re looking for a fun read that is as entertaining as it is hot, then you will probably like this novella. I think it’s a total hoot and very cute.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 58 pages/18036 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	01-December-2015
Price	$3.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/talk-turkey-by-bru-baker-3603-b