Slick's review posted at Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 
 Glass Tidings wasn't your typical happy go lucky holiday romance, but it was heart-warming and complex and very, very enjoyable. A horrible accident and a twist of fate bring two men together during the holiday season; one is running and he's not sure if he's running from something or to it and the other is living a solitary half life, together they find friendship, comfort and more but learning to trust again just may be their downfall. 
 All Eddie Rodrigues wants is to get to Texas before it gets any colder, but a broken down car and witnessing a hit and run leave him stranded in the idyllic town of Clear Lake and taken in by Grayson Croft, a friend to the cop investigating the crime Eddie witnessed. 
 It is obvious early on that Eddie and Grayson's lives have been very different. Eddie has had to fight for everything he has and has spent the last few years of his life traveling from faire to faire selling his glass wares. Grayson grew up in a loving home surrounded by his family and though they are all gone, he still holds their memories dear. Both men are reeling from ghosts of boyfriends past, but find solace in one another. 
 I enjoyed watching these two dance around one another for a good portion of this book, both wanting more but Grayson afraid to make a move for fear Eddie would think he wanted payment for his generosity and Eddie for fear of becoming attached again to someone who appears not interested. I loved how easy they fell into a routine and how despite their different lives and the difference in their ages, they had enough common ground to really talk and spend time with each other even though for the most part it was fairly superficial. I won't pretend this was an easy romance because it wasn't by far, these two men both had a lot of hurt and issues that kept them from being completely open and honest with one another and for Eddie it was easier to leave than deal, something Grayson realized early on so he chose to not rock the boat. 
 Both men found it easier to show each other in little ways how they cared and while I think Grayson figured out Eddie a bit more than Eddie figured out Grayson, just the fact they both wanted to please the other and do things for one another made it easy for the reader to see these two were headed down a path neither one was sure about. 
 This was my first time reading Amy Jo Cousins and I appreciated the complex characters, interesting storyline, and heartfelt emotion contained within the pages of Glass Tidings. 
 ARC provided with no expectations.