His Mistletoe Omega (Sweet Alps Mates) by Raiven Matthews

His Mistletoe Omega is a holiday romance between a grumpy 7 foot elf and a snarky red-headed human with a sprinkle of sass and Christmas magic mixed in! A quick and delightful read for this time of year! 


From the blurb:

Fake dating Santa’s grumpy head elf might land me on the naughty list…

When the grumpiest elf to ever elf asks me for a favor, I can’t say no. Okay, I can, but I don’t. To get his family off his back, I’ll pretend to be his boyfriend through the holidays, acting all loved up, then we’ll have a quiet breakup. Simple. What could go wrong? Everything, that’s what. Thanks to my meddling brother, there’s no room at the inn, only one bed, and kisses under the mistletoe hot enough to melt all the snow in Santa’s Village.

And now I’m looking at Balfour in a whole new light. We’d gone from enemies to friends, but now I might want more. When we are forced to spend my surprise heat together, I see a side of him I never knew existed. One that makes me want our fake relationship to be real.

Will Santa make my Christmas wish come true?

His Mistletoe Omega is set in the same world as His Gingerbread Omega, and while it can be read as a standalone, the author strongly suggests reading Gingerbread first, as that world and characters in that book will be featured in this book. This sweet M/M holiday romcom is an enemies-to-friends-to-lovers romance that includes fake dating, forced proximity, mistletoe kisses, only one bed, and a surprise heat. There will be meddling families, lots of text messaging, a gingerbread contest, and a touch of Christmas magic.


Jacqueleen the Reading Queen's review:

"𝙶𝚘𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚜, 𝚗𝚘 𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚍. 𝙸𝚏 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚘𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎, 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚙."

It was so much fun being back in Santa's Village. Since it's been a year since our last visit, I had forgotten how magical the setting of this series was. All the cute little cottages. The friendly (and few not so friendly), elves. All the lights. I can just picture it in my mind. Like Kendrick says, I couldn't see how that whimsical view would ever get old.

I was so excited when I heard grumpy Bal, The Santa's elf bestie, was going to be the MC of this book! Even more fun his man turns out to be Keegan's older brother! I mean, it doesn't get more perfect than that for two sibling humans who, due to their circumstances, have to live on opposite planes of existence. Bal and Kendrick being an item gives hope to the future.

One of my favorite things about this book were the text message exchanges at the beginning of each chapter. It laid the groundwork for us to see how Bal and Kendrick got to know one another, forming a friendship I think surprised them both. They also made me laugh because Bal is just such a grump and Kendrick does love needling the elf. As time goes by and the two get closer, Kendrick begins to come to the realization that he is starting to love other things about Bal as well.

"𝙷𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚜𝚘 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚒𝚖𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚑𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚗, 𝚜𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗. 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗. 𝙸 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚎𝚍 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚍 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍."

Bal was also coming to some realizations about his own feelings in regard to Kendrick. So here we have two people who are falling in love with one another, yet instead of communicating, both decide that keeping their lips zipped on the subject is the best way to go. I can tell you that I wanted to smack them both upside the heads at this point. And I think Keegan and The Santa agreed with me because it's thanks to them that both these buttheads finally talk it out like they should have in the beginning. So even though they may have had a little bump in the road, we still get the magical Christmas Village HEA!


Lori C's review:

Kendrick lives in the human realm with his parents while his brother Keegan is loved up with The Santa in the other realm. He gets to stay in contact with Keegan via a special cell phone. He also talks to Balfour, the grumpy elf, the other favorite uncle, and his frenemy. Soon though they become more friends than enemies. Their snark winning the other over. When Bal needs a favor, the only person he even thinks to ask is Kendrick.

I actually reread Keegan’s story, His Gingerbread Omega, so that I could be ready for Kendrick’s story. Oh my oh my! The steam in this book. It’s like Bal and Kendrick are shooting sparks the entire story. I absolutely adored the cell phone conversations! Aww, the snark, it had me going. I looked forward to each chapter ending just to see those little bits of information. The story itself is so good that couldn’t bear to put the book down. I really love the Sweet Alps books and His Mistletoe Omega fits in so well with them despite being mostly in the magical realm.

Molly Otto's review:

I absolutely adored the push and pull of these two characters. They were so dang opposite yet the played off each other brillantly that you knew they would eventually make it work. The text messages show us their growth, even while being on different planes, that they can grow and build a healthy and lasting relationship. Balfour being the grump that he is slowly relaxes into the banter and energy of Kendrick. Kendrick getting off on the wrong foot with Balfour for understandable reasons, sorry Bal you were a butthead, but I love you anyway, when sees the real Bal cannot help being drawn in and what to know the real Bal. A great addition to this year's holiday lines up, was happy to see Keegan and Nik have such strong and lasting relationship and growing into their own as a couple. Raiven as per usual pulls us fully into this world where you as the reader have no issues imagining and feeling yourself in the world.

Angel's review:

I've been so excited for Raiven to release another Christmas book because I loved her last Christmas book, His Gingerbread Omega. And this one was just as fantastic!

I feel as though sometimes the grumpy/sunshine trope can either be successful or a flop, and Raiven did a great job with making it successful here. Bal is such a grumpy elf and Kendrick is a ray of chaotic sunshine, I loved seeing these two banter with each other. Their texts were hilarious, as was their conversations. They started out as enemies but became so much more!

While this can be read as a standalone, I'd recommended also reading His Gingerbread Omega as it'll help fill you in on some of the events that are mentioned in this book.

His Mistletoe Omega is currently available as an e-book and can be read as part of your Kindle Unlimited Subscription