Elf Against the Wall: A Holiday Romantic Comedy (The Wynter Brothers Book 2)

4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars | 2,954 ratings

Price: 5.99

Last update: 12-22-2024


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When you kiss your perfect boyfriend under the mistletoe…only for your cousin to scream to the family that you stole her man, Christmas is OVER.
In my defense, I didn’t know my boss—yup, boss. Buckle up because this is messy—was my cousin’s newly minted and totally lying fiancé. I thought he was the Nutcracker Prince come to finally show my family that I, too, was worthy of putting the star atop the Christmas tree.

I was so wrong.
Now my entire family thinks I’m a ho ho ho.
I’m at the top of the naughty list, not in a fun Elf on the Shelf way, but rather in a snide-comments-at-brunch and sitting-at-the-kids’-table kinda way.

I have to clear my name, or Christmas is ruined. Again.
What better way than to blackmail my family’s number one sworn enemy?
Anderson Wynter is this desperate elf’s last hope. Six-foot-five, ethically challenged, with washboard abs and a death wish, Anderson is the perfect weapon to expose my ex and help me get back in my family’s good graces.
That is, until the weapon massively backfires… and no, not like that.

Anderson goes full Nightmare Before Christmas and shows up at my family’s annual holiday party in nothing but tattoos and a motorcycle helmet and tells everyone we’re dating.
Yep, that kicks me off the naughty list and sends me straight to the Grinch’s garbage dump.

Now I’m chained to a motorcycle-riding bad elf with terrible morals and an even worse attitude—one who sticks his hand down my shirt in the middle of my parents’ posh country club and tells me to ride him like I do his bike.
When I slap him, he just smirks and asks if I fluff my marshmallows while fantasizing about betraying my family with him.
As if.

No way am I sleeping with the man my entire family hates.
Because that won’t just ruin Christmas.
It’ll ruin the rest of my life.

Naughty elves of Christmas checking in! We’re drunk caroling, eating cookies at midnight, surviving family drama, and drooling over hot, unattainable men who are oh so wrong for us. This standalone holiday romantic comedy has all the Christmas cheer you can fit under the tree and a happily ever after guaranteed!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Quirky, funny holiday fluff
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2024
After reading "Good Elf Gone Wrong," I had to read the next in the Wynter Brothers series.

Much like the previous book, it follows a similar story pattern. Bad boy brought home to rile up the family for end goal. Rinse and repeat.

Though this is funny, I laughed almost the entire night, it had more depth than the first installment.

Evie, an adopted daughter in a big Scottish family, is the resident black sheep. She's not perfect and her parents like to remind her of it, especially after everyone thought she was stalking her boss, now ex and her cousin's fiancé. When she makes one last mistake, her parents give her an ultimatum: find a job by Christmas, or you're out. The only way to get back on their good graces is proving her ex was lying about them. Enter Anderson, who she blackmails for help.

Like his older brother, Anderson is tough, direct and not afraid to say hilariously dirty things in front of everyone. He's also the Murphy family's biggest enemy and needs to find a way to clean off an old debt by ruining their individual lives for payment.

He's keeps Evie on edge and they banter/fight a lot. Eventually it gives way to a toxically good relationship where both black sheep screwups find their kindred other half. Both are manic, crazy and possessive. It makes for a hilarious fire, especially when both families don't like each other.

Unlike the last book, Evie is someone who you can really root for. She tries her hardest to fit in and when it doesn't work she finally puts everyone in their place. She's tough. Anderson, with his hard shell, completely goes to his knees for her. It's a sweet, spicy read.

Granny Murphy is who I aspire to be like. Especially after the bar fight.

If there isn't a continuation of this series, where the 3 remaining brothers and sister get their happily ever after, I'll be mad. These siblings are fun.
Dayna Geary
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read.
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2024
I did really like the book. I like the characters, definitely had some comedy and some cringe worthy moments. :-) I gave the book 4 stars because even though there were aspects of it that I didn’t like, see below, it was still a good read. The writing was good, the story was good and the spice was good too. :-)
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Sometimes it was hard to take how awful her family was to her. They constantly put her down and made her feel like she wasn’t part of the family since she was adopted. Also, Anderson, the main male character, put her in some compromising and humiliating positions in front of her family. Really bad positions, where he deliberately humiliated her and degraded her in front of her family and walked away and left her, half naked on the floor in front of her family. The next day it was like nothing happened and she took him back no problem. Also, in their relationship there was a lot of degradation and name-calling. Don’t get me wrong, she was into it, but it’s not something that I like to read in my books. I think it made it hard for me because her family was so mean to her, and he was degrading her and name-calling in private, and she basically let everybody walk all over her and never stood up for herself. She was always trying to win their love and put up with everything they said and did.
Cat B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Romantic comedy at its best!
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2024
In the Wynter Brothers series' latest installment, Elf Against the Wall: A Holiday Romantic Comedy, Anderson and Evie's ridiculous romance blossoms from her blackmailing Anderson in her dad's office to their own brand of crazy happily ever after. As they trip over their own separate agendas, love smacks them in the face. The story is a hot mess of mishaps, and the couple's journey is both laugh-out-loud hilarious joyride and heartwarming.
Read-Love-Review Blog
3.0 out of 5 stars Not so Holiday
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2024
This book's holiday story is a smutty, dark romance with a side of chaos. While the characters are intriguing, the family is an epic disaster, and the storyline itself is more about revenge and dark themes with a side of blackmail. I didn't love this book for a holiday read. I love Alina Jacob's other books, but reading this gave me a sense of Deja Vu to a previous book in this series, and it just didn't give me the holiday vibes. 

Evie is horrible in the boyfriend's department, and a holiday mix-up leaves her empty and embarrassed.  The prologue of this book is heartbreaking for Evie. 

Her pact with the strange bad boy is weird and kind of out of nowhere, but somehow, it is interconnected to her crazy family. Evie is the black sheep of the family, and Anderson is all sorts of tall, dark, and morally grey. 

So, this book interconnects, but the story reads much the same as the last, to the point that I thought it was duplicated and just changed the character names. If you have read Good Elf Gone Wrong, the first in this series, you know what I mean. I have to admit that Granny Doyle is a class act in this story. 

This family is very dysfunctional while
It does have holiday vibes, but it is more of a catastrophic book with great food. The main characters seem to be midlife, and the book does get a little suggestive. This story goes from suggestive to steamy, but not in a loving way. Also, I still feel like I'm reading Deja Vu with this book.

I consider this a dark romance because of how the family treats Evie. He talks and treats her, and of course, there are the intimate scenes with the demands and praise. Overall, Anderson is no cinnamon roll; he is more like bad to the bone.

This story implodes and magically becomes more confusing as more characters are introduced. It is very smutty and confusing, and I need to get the holiday vibes. This story ends unresolved to me.

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