
The Stocking Was Hung
The Holidays, Book 1
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James Cavenaugh
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Tara Sivec
About this listen
What happens when your life goes to crap the week of Christmas? You invite a hot Marine you met in an airport bar to come home with you for the holidays, to distract your crazy family from the truth.
With a handsy aunt, a meddling mother, and a father concerned for the wellbeing of his daughter's eggnog, there's no chance Sam and Noel will have time to fall in love...or will they?
The Stocking Was Hung is the first of three books about The Holiday family. It's a full-length Christmas novel that will make you laugh, make you HOT, and maybe even make you say, "Awwwww" a few times.
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- Monika
- 12-01-24
The Title Says It All
His last name is Stocking. He is hung. This had all of the dirty, holiday vibes with a whack job family. It was everything I wanted in a dirty holiday romance novella!
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- Lea
- 12-15-21
Match made in my dreams
God I love these books. Anything by Tara sivec is HILARIOUS!! You just have to listen yourself and experience the hilarity yourself.
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- Mindy Lou
- 04-16-24
Hilarious!!
I'm a little late listening to this since it's past Christmas but I don't even care! I loved this short story! It was sweet, charming, ridiculously funny and romantic. Loved it!
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- 🔥 Phx17 🔥
- 11-12-22
Channeling a Chevy Chase P😜rny Christmas
Hyperbolic. Hilarious. Holiday rom-com at its best. It’s irreverent and raunchy and full of euphemisms like “diddling the doodlebug.” This type of novella is usually too silly for me, but during the holidays, it jingles my bells all the way. There are exclamations like “Jesus, Mary and all the Fing wisemen!” So, if you’re looking for more cozy or deep, this ain’t it. I for one loved the combination of humor and heart, not to mention Noel’s crazy, colorful family. This is a HFN novella, with a logical stopping point that I wouldn’t call a cliffhanger. But, Noel and Sam’s romance continues in other seasonal novellas, with each hitting on a new relationship stage. I found each to give diminishing returns and will probably only listen to this one again, and only during the holiday season.
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- Jessica Anhalt
- 01-16-24
This was cute!
I listened to the audio, and it was a cute book. Sam and Noel meet at the airport, and she asks him to come home with her and pretend to be her boyfriend. Since it's a Christmas book everything happens between the two of them very quickly, but it was perfect for a little Holiday romance. And I had some laughs along the way, I love Aunt Bobby! 🤣
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- Robin Puckett
- 01-15-21
OMG!!!!
I laughed so hard, I cried!! I had to turn it off to drive because I was laughing so hard!!! Tara can definitely write a funny romcom!!!!! Neva and James delivered this on spot!! The poor man in this! He put up with and took a lot from her family!! I think this is the funniest story I've listened to to date!!! And I've listened to a lot of funny romcoms!!!!! This needs at least 10 stars across the board!!! Listen! I promise you won't regret it!!!!
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- Cristin
- 12-21-24
a holly jolly good listen
This book was so fun to listen to. Nolle's family was a hoot.
the narrators did such a good job!
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- A Wright, avid reader
- 12-14-20
Hilarious!!
Hilarious Christmas novella that made me laugh out loud! It also made me appreciate my own strange family even more. Listen and put yourself in the Christmas spirit.
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- Amy Evette
- 11-19-22
Laugh out loud
Tara civic delivers another raunchy laugh out loud comedy. Thoroughly enjoyable. I highly recommend it.
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- Crystal
- 12-21-24
Christmas and comedy gold
Classic Christmas romcom. Well- classic? If you’re a fan of inappropriate humor, you’ll love most things written by Tara Sivec- this one included
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