Review: Short, Sweet Holiday Trifle
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
British Hotel Manager Ruby has long loved her college pal Ford, who's traveled the world seeking his fortune and a place he can feel at home. Ruby's a homebody and happy in her "elegantly shabby" old pile of a hotel in England, Ford's got a wandering foot and prefers where it's warm.Coming back to England in the middle of a blizzard for a Christmas Season wedding of two mutual friends, it doesn't take Ford more than a second to realize he's desperately missed, and wants, his old gal pal - and Ruby to realize she's never gotten over her feelings for him. They go from "It's been ages!" to making out like mad and gasping "I want you, now" in a matter of minutes - and spend the night together in a room Ruby designed for couples. The next day the power goes out right before the wedding, and Ruby marshals her meager forces, with Ford's help, to pull the wedding off despite that. When the lights come back on, Ford confesses to Ruby he wrote her constantly, and saved every unmailed postcard from every warm place on Earth - and that he's never felt happier than with her. In England. In the middle of a blizzard. With shaky power.Ruby and Ford are sketched in well enough that you feel they have a life outside the story, and you want them to be happy - and the explicit sex scenes are both hot and romantic.