Yool by Tana Stone [Review]

Yool (Holidate with an Alien) by Tana Stone
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: September 10, 2024

Holidate with an Alien
Skruj
Ozias
Rixen
Yool - Paperback | Kindle
Sleye
Tinzel
Khane

Tana Stone
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

I'm bringing a rough-around-the-edges, alien smuggler as my plus-one to a holiday party on the Valox rebel base. But can I convince them that he’s my boyfriend before sharing my small room drives us both mad? Let the fa-la-la-fun begin!

This might not be so hard if I was the kind of girl who dated bad boys. I’m not. I’m a fighter pilot for the Valox resistance who can hold her own against any tough guy. It doesn’t hurt that I spent my childhood being carted around the galaxy and learning tricks from my card-shark father. Which is why when the silver-skinned alien eyes me like an easy mark in the grungy bar, I can’t resist taking him for all he’s worth.

But I don’t care about his money. I want him to pretend to be my boyfriend so one of the new mechanics at the base will stop hitting on me. The plan is foolproof. Yool will come to the holiday party as my date, convince everyone that I’m off-limits, and then hightail it out of my life.

What I didn’t bet on is the smuggler being so frustratingly charming that my fellow rebels are convinced he’s a candidate for the nice list. Sharing my quarters is putting us both in serious danger of landing on the naughty list for life!

When the base is sabotaged after Yool arrives and he’s blamed for it, I have to prove he’s innocent before the holly jolly holidays become a merry mess.

Thoughts on Yool: A resistance pilot walks into a bar...as it turns out, Brooke is no joke with cards and she wipes the floor with Yool after he thinks he's suckering her into a game. The kicker? She doesn't want his money, just his presence at the upcoming Christmas party so she doesn't have to spend the time fending off the advances of an annoying mechanic.

Yool is...well, he's totally taken in by Brooke's wide-eyed innocent looks. He plans on quietly divesting her of some credits in a friendly card game and moving along. He absolutely doesn't expect to get his booty handed to him by said wide-eyed innocent OR end up playing her boyfriend at a resistance Christmas party. And while he absolutely has no plans to stick around after fulfilling his part of the bargain, he finds himself getting more and more entangled in Brooke's life and soon he has ALL THE FEELINGS for the scrappy pilot.

Just to spice things up, not-so-random attacks on the resistance base has everybody jumpy, Brooke is starting to suspect sabotage, and Yool is under suspicion just for being the new guy. Let's just say that THINGS HAPPEN and it doesn't take long before both Brooke and Yool realize they might have something special between them.