AUDIO REVIEW: In Good Spirits by Helen Juliet

IN GOOD SPIRITS

by Helen Juliet

Release Date: December 20, 2025

Audio Release Date: December 11, 2025

Review

A really lovely holiday romance with a sweet little, a daddy on the mend, a daddy who can appreciate the love of another daddy, and a middle in the middle.

Polyamory has many different forms, and these four men find themselves drawn to figuring out what that would look like for them. And it’s as beautiful as it sounds.

Finding space emotionally for four people couldn’t be easy, but the care and communication these men take to make sure that each person feels seen, loved, and heard is heartwarming.

If you like some warm and fuzzy holiday love with a side of steam, your spirits will definitely be good after reading this.

It’s also wonderful as an audiobook. Narrated by Dan Calley, who is a dream. I’ve been known to listen to a story simply because he’s narrating!

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Synopsis

Bah. Humbug.

EVAN

I didn’t always hate Christmas. But where most people see joy and love, I now see grief and loss. All I want is to be left alone at this time of year. Unfortunately, I seem to have accidentally offended a sweet boy at my club. Thanks to my meddling friend, I was supposed to organise a blind date for him that I knew nothing about.

Rather than hold it against me, however, he’s decided to show me all the fun that Daddies and boys can have during the holidays with some ‘practice’ dates. Not just with him, but his two boyfriends as well. It’s unthinkable…but I start having fun. My heart has been broken for so long, though. Surely, it’s too late to fix it now.

TIAN

Okay, yes, I was hurt when my Secret Santa Daddy jilted me. But I know that deep down Evan is a good man. He just needs a little help to show him the way, and I happen to be the little for the job! Even better, I convince my boyfriends to help, too. Jude is the perfect mischievous middle to get Evan smiling again, and Daddy Sai…I think secretly he wants to be Daddied himself sometimes.

It’s not hard to find the strong, caring man hidden away between Evan’s gruff exterior. When our lessons become something more, can I convince him he’s safe to open his heart again to love? Christmas in the past tore his heart in two, but in the present, we’re going to mend it for all the Christmases yet to come!

In Good Spirits is a super steamy, standalone MMMM gay romance novel featuring two Daddies, a middle and a little, a second chance at love, a Christmas wonderland, an old playroom given new purpose, a matchmaking Corgi, and a guaranteed HEA with absolutely no cliffhanger.

About Helen Juliet

HJ Welch is a contemporary MM romance author living in London with her husband and two balls of fluff that occasionally pretend to be cats. She began writing at an early age, later honing her craft online in the world of fanfiction on sites like Wattpad. Fifteen years and over a million words later, she sought out original MM novels to read. She never thought she would be any good at romance, but once she turned her hand to it she discovered she in fact adored it. By the end of 2016 she had written her first book of her own, and in 2017 she fulfilled her lifelong dream of becoming a fulltime author.

She also writes contemporary British MM romance as Helen Juliet.

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