You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince

Funnily enough, this is not the first queer holiday book I read this year with an entitled main character going to a small town where their family lives after a snafu, and decides to help the town hold an event to help the local businesses in order to restore their reputation but finds growth and romance in someone with a penchant for woodcutting.

I liked this one more.

Now that I am just starting my awakening into literary romances between boys lately, I surprised myself when it occurred to me that I'd never thought to look for a story set at Christmas time, as much as I love it. So I did a more or less exhaustive search and came across this book that sounded like just what I was looking for. And just as I was starting to run into some clichés and thinking that the book, while satisfying, wasn't going to offer me any more, I found myself surprised again. As for the way it is written, it is a pleasure to read, the dialogues flow, the characters almost draw themselves and the text has some parts worth memorizing and integrating into one's own experience.
It also doesn't feel like events are rushed towards the end, and it doesn't make you wait until the last ten pages to see the romance culminate (thank you). It offers you sweetness, warmth -lots of warmth- and a little, but important, room for reflection.

No doubt Timothy Janovsky has a new fan among his followers.