Sunday, October 12, 2025

A Very Merry Matchup

Title: A Very Merry Matchup

Author: Becca Kinzer

Narrators: C.J. Bloom and Adam Verner

Publisher: Tyndale Fiction

Genre: RomCom, Contemporary Romance, Christmas, Christian Ficiton,

Source: Hoopla

My Review:

A Very Merry Matchup has everything you could possibly want in a Christmas RomCom. I loved everything about this story. 

I listened to this on audio, and I loved C.J. Bloom and Adam Verner's narration of the story. They added to my enjoyment of the story.

Read for: 

🔔 match making

🔔witty banter

🔔small town

🔔Mr. and Mrs. Claus

🔔Hamish

🔔Christmas bells

🔔Nana's shenanigans

🔔Christmas pajamas

🔔opposites attract

🔔All the flirting

🔔Christmas lights

🔔Beau's family

I finished this book and was so sad it's over. I immediately wanted to read it again. If you are looking for a Christmas book with all the warm fuzzies, you want to read this one. I smiled or laughed through most of the book. It is just the sweetest story, and I loved Beau's family.

★★★★★

Book 1

Synopsis (Goodreads):   

In this charming small-town Christmas rom com by award-winning author Becca Kinzer, a travel nurse who loves to play matchmaker gets a taste of her own medicine when her friend conspires to set her up with a minor league baseball player.

If there’s one thing travel nurse Ivy West prides herself on, it’s her matchmaking skills. She’s even convinced she knows her own perfect type, a man who, unlike her parents, isn’t traveling the country for the sake of a career. It doesn’t matter Ivy hasn’t met him yet. She’s sure she will in a few years. At least, it’s one of her goals. Then Beau Wall—a minor league baseball player with his sights set on the big leagues—lands in the hospital, and there’s an undeniable spark between them. No need to worry. Ivy will just match him up with her friend Lucy, and she won’t be tempted to date him herself.

A few months later, Ivy’s convinced everything’s gone perfectly when she hears Lucy’s engaged. But when Ivy arrives to spend Christmas in Iowa and celebrate the engagement, there’s one little problem. Lucy has set her up. Sure, Lucy’s engaged, but not to Beau. And Beau isn’t about to lose this unexpected shot at winning Ivy over. Neither are his mom and grandma who also try to throw the two together.

Amid twinkling Christmas lights and hours spent watching holiday movies, Ivy finds herself falling for Beau. Maybe it’s time she ditched her plans . . . because it’s looking like Beau might be her perfect match after all.

A clean, sweet love story for readers who enjoy holiday romances by Courtney Walsh, Jenny Bayliss, and Sheila Roberts A standalone Christmas novella for fans of cozy Christmas movies and opposites-attract sports romances.

2 comments:

  1. It's so helpful to see a book that truly delivers on the RomCom and "warm fuzzies" promise. The list of elements, especially the "Nana's shenanigans," has definitely sold me on adding this to my holiday reading list.

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  2. I’d love to read this. I hope you’re having a wonderful Sunday evening.
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