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Yule Planet: Escape from the Holidays by [Angel Martinez, L.C. Chase, Jude Dunn]

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by Angel Martinez (Author), L.C. Chase (Illustrator), Jude Dunn (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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Sofia Cancino is tired of her mundane life, her artificial environment and her large, boisterous family descending every holiday season. She's promised herself this year will be different and books a stay on the exclusive—and expensive--holiday-themed resort, Yule Planet. She looks forward to being pampered while reconnecting with Old Earth traditions steeped in the magic and mysticism of nature. Everything will be perfect and she'll leave as a more authentic human, better connected to her roots.

Naturally, things go horribly wrong. Sofia's landing pod goes off course and instead of stepping out on the landing pad at the resort, she finds herself in the snow-swept perpetual winter of the planet's hinterlands. If that wasn't bad enough, she's "rescued" by a band of criminals on work release who run deliveries to the resort from far-flung shuttle delivery sites. They refuse to take her, a paying customer, to the resort and insist on dragging her along on their parcel run. Riding giant monsters. In frigid weather. Not to mention, Marta, who handles the monsters, obviously hates her.

If Sofia survives her vacation, she's definitely yelling at someone's supervisor until she gets a refund.

Part of the 2018 "Escape from the Holidays" Series
Stay Awhile by Kassandra Lea
Burning Down the House by Gregory Norris
The Holiday Spirit by Carole Cummings
Slow Thaw by J. Scott Coatsworth
Celebrations in the Season of Long Nights by Mere Rain
The Holiday Home Hotel by Lou Sylvre
Something to Celebrate by Evelyn Benvie
Holiday Hijinks by Toni Griffin
Yule Planet by Angel Martinez
Waiting on the Rain by Freddy Mackay

Length: 156 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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ASIN : B07LGH3DBT
Publisher : Mischief Corner Books, LLC; 1st edition (December 22, 2018)
Publication date : December 22, 2018
Language : English
File size : 8697 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 156 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 1791954669
Lending : Enabled

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- #1,246 in LGBTQ+ Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
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Diane D. (genre fiction biblioholic)

Novella felt richly developed; excellent planetary SF with F/F romance.

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2018

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The growth of lead character Sofia was perfect, from never-been-in-a-real-natural-environment clueless, slightly spoiled, and judgemental (but honestly sore, so she gets some sympathy from this reader, even when she kind of whines), to someone who does what she's promised to do, and finds not just a romance but a family-by-choice, a real place to belong among the interesting assortment of other cast, including the huge, feathery, saurian riding/pack-beasts <3 with claws and minds of their own.

The world (both its wintry wilds and the corporate-controlled resort bureaucracy), the pace, and the happy ending, where Sofia gets to exercise her own area of expertise, are all believable and well-crafted. Despite being under 70 pages according to the info, the story didn't feel too short, which is rare for me to say! I think I like it as much as Ms. Martinez's previous holiday SFR novella, "Safety Protocols for Human Holidays" (which is also F/F, though I don't know if she plans to continue so for *cough, cough* 2019's, 2020's, etc.).

Oh, as for proofreading, it's good. I caught one duplicated "on" (accidentally before as well as after "quietly"), one missing hyphen in a long, phrasal adjective ("-clean-sheets-"), and "deep" where it really should be "depth" or "depths"; that's it.

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Other Worlds Ink

Great Lesbian Christmas Tale

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2018

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It’s December, so it must be time for another Angel Martinez winter holiday tale. And what a tale she delivers in “”Yule Planet.”

Sofia Cancino wants to get away from her boring life in middle management, and her crazy family entanglements. When she runs across a brochure for a cheery holiday resort on a frozen planet, it sounds perfect. She books her stay, and is really excited until things go awry. Which they do almost immediately. To tell you much more would ruin the plot.

I’ve been a Martinez fan for a long time, and loved her quirky 2017 Christmas tale “Safety Protools for Human Holidays.” “Yule Planet” proves once again that she has the writer thing down, as she spins a tightly knit fish-out-of-water tale that grabs you by the collar and drags you along for the ride.

Sofia starts as a bit of an entitled snot, and is given lots of room to grow during this novella-length tale. She takes full advantage. But then again, so does her love interest, who starts as the grunty-silent type but has a whole backstory of her own. I loved watching their relationship grow, often in fits and starts. When it’s finally consummated, it’s sweet and funny in the way only Martinez can manage.

But the ones who steal the show are the chionisaurs – which I can only aptly describe as fuzzy snow dinosaurs. They provide a lot of the comic relief in the story, but also much of its heart, and put me immediately in mind of Anne McCaffrey’s dragons.

In fact, the whole story reminds me of some of my favorite Anne McCaffrey tales, particularly Dinosaur Planet and the Freedom series. It’s like McCaffrey if McCaffrey had written lesbian couples, and believe me, coming from me that’s the highest praise.

Like those books, “Yule Planet” features worldbuilding of both kinds – by the author to paint the scene, and by the characters building the actual world themselves. And Martinez does both really well.

I loved the way the plot moved too, from purposeful misdirection – there’s danger over there! and then danger pops up here instead – to the seeming ending in the middle, which offers a chance for Sofia’s character to change and grow in the crucible of a very difficult decision.

I absolutely loved this story – it hit all the right notes for me for a sci fi tale – and I can’t wait for the next entry in Martinez’s sci fi holiday tales.

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Ike Rose

Fun and engrossing

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2019

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A well crafted adventure which leads to a sweet romance.
I love the way each character is revealed with quiet efficiency. Interesting alien creatures (I'd love to know exactly how sentient they are), and a creative solutions.

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Wintermask

Not a holiday story

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2020

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I didn’t think this was one of Angel Martinez’s best efforts. I didn’t care much for Sofia, and I expected a more holiday story.

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emilia agrafojo and eric jackson

As warm and fuzzy as your favorite comfy blanket!

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2019

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A heartwarming Sci-Fi story about found family, with enough detailed worldbulding to make the environment exciting and realistic, yet not bog down the narrative. And there are fuzzy space dinosaurs! Who doesn’t love fuzzy space dinosaurs?

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KLH

Enjoyable winter story

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2018

This was a short but entertaining read. Sofia chooses to take a vacation to Yule Planet, a resort that provides exposure to actual real air and nature instead of enclosed habitats. She is a little intimidated by the trip to the planet from the ship, but has faith in her safety. There is a problem, of course, and she crashes elsewhere. A crew of workers with indigenous animals rescue her. She’s frightened of both the beasts and the people because that’s what she’s been taught.

That starts the story. Sofia is not very likable, but I guess that should be expected if you’re suddenly thrust into a situation way out of your control. For reasons, her rescuers can’t do anything but bring her along so she agrees to work with them. In doing so, she does gradually come around and learns to trust the motley group, albeit with mishaps.

There’s adventure, danger, love, humor, and conniving corporate “suits” in this novella. Some parts are pretty funny. There’s also diverse, matter-of-fact LGBT representation among the characters, although everything is fade to black. Since it’s really about Sofia being exposed to a different world, it works well. And there is also a happy ending – at least it made me happy. I liked Sofia’s decisions and actions as the book progressed. She really grew up and took charge of her situation. And then, the adventure was over all too suddenly – I wanted more time with the characters even though the story is complete.

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josh rose

Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Disaster

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2020

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An excellent little tale charting the journey of Sofia, an initially brattish, dissatisfied character who embarks on the holiday of a lifetime only to have it go wronger than a wrong thing in Wrongville.
When her shuttle to Yule Planet crashes, leaving her stranded in the snowy wastes, her life falls into the hands of a group of former convicts, conscripted to work on supplying the resort.
As Sofia works with them and their fabulous floofy/feathery beasts of burden, the planet's native chionosaurs, she discovers that there's more to life than she'd previously believed.
As a massive fan of Angel's Brimstone and 77th Precinct stories, this book delivered all the elements I've come to expect from the author - an excellent cast of fascinating and diverse characters - a challenge to be met head on - lots of sweet romance and some unexpectedly loveable alien creatures.
I found this a very enjoyable short read with a most satisfying conclusion.

mrs stone

Back to nature for Christmas!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2019

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Angel writes great stories and this is no exception Sofia wants a Christmas holiday that returns her to nature unfortunately her pod that takes her to the planet crashes and she is saved by a group of workers who transport goods to the resort from drop ship sites.
Along the way she grows to enjoy her time with this group and their friendship and team work and begins to fall for Marta a gruff worker she is tasked to work with.
A great story about helping others and falling in love in the festive season.

Kindle Customer

LGBTQ story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2019

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This was a very interesting story set on an ice planet. I was over half way through when I realised that this book was aimed at women in same sex relationships and was becoming quite explicit. It would have been helpful if this aspect had been noted at the beginning. If it was I obviously missed it.