{"id":4904,"date":"2025-11-22T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2025-11-22T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:05:00","slug":"merry-christmas-you-filthy-animal-by-meghan-quinn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=4904","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal by Meghan Quinn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal<\/strong> by Meghan Quinn<\/a>
on October 14, 2025
Genres:<\/strong> Fiction \/ Romance \/ Contemporary<\/a>, Fiction \/ Romance \/ General<\/a>, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Romantic Comedy<\/a>, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Sports<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 464
Format:<\/strong> eBook<\/a>
Buy on Amazon<\/a>
Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n

Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal<\/em> brings all of Meghan Quinn\u2019s signature humor, hijinks, and heart to the second installment of her How My Neighbor Stole Christmas<\/em> series. This time, the chaos centers on Atlas \u201cMax\u201d Maxheimer, who\u2019s barely holding his family\u2019s Christmas tree farm together when he\u2019s literally knocked off his feet\u2014by a bottle of soda, no less. Enter Betty, the new girl in town, bustling with holiday cheer and helping her uncle open a rival tree farm right next door. To Max, she\u2019s clearly his festive nemesis; to Betty, he\u2019s maybe just one sleigh short of a parade. And from there, the holiday madness only builds.<\/p>\n

Quinn layers in all the seasonal delights\u2014blizzards, stolen ornaments with surprisingly tragic backstories, and a small-town feud that gets delightfully out of hand. While I personally liked the first book in the series a bit more (the chapter-opening poems were such a charming touch!), this second book still delivers Quinn\u2019s solid writing, trademark banter, and laugh-out-loud moments.<\/p>\n

One of the highlights for me was getting Max\u2019s story. The first half simmers with buildup while the spice hits hard in the back half, giving the romance a satisfying payoff. Betty, on the other hand, is written so well that I genuinely couldn\u2019t decide at first whether I was supposed to dislike her or adopt her as my new festive bestie\u2014and that\u2019s part of the fun. Add in the narrator\u2019s voice, which gives the story an extra sparkle, and it becomes an irresistibly entertaining holiday read.<\/p>\n

This is not a book meant to be taken too seriously; it\u2019s a humorous, warm, chaotic romp\u2014perfect for getting into the festive mood. For me, it lands at a very merry 4.5 stars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal by Meghan Quinn on October 14, 2025 Genres: Fiction \/ Romance \/ Contemporary, Fiction \/ Romance \/ General, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Romantic Comedy, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Sports Pages: 464 Format: eBook Buy on Amazon Goodreads Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal brings all of Meghan Quinn\u2019s signature humor, hijinks, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}