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A Novel Christmas by Charity Shane'

13 reviews

margaret03's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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tiffanne11's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

The premise of this book is that a writer heads to Santa Claus, IN to be inspired for her next holiday romance and falls in love.
There was a lot to love about this book and if you weren't hungry and craving a cozy day snowed in, it will definitely bring out those feelings.
But the author self-insert with this story becoming her book that lands on the NYT Best Seller list and keeps her at her publishers felt too forced. It felt wildly underdeveloped in some areas. The two main characters instantly connected and started banging, but we don't really see that connection on the page. It's just like, they hot, let's go. Their past hurts also only come up as plot devices and not in a way that feels natural. The Dorian/Mya backstory at least makes the reader feel for him, even while he is mostly chasing his lower head's pleasure.
It felt superficial but was trying to be deeper and it just didn't land for me.

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teecatoj's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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thetinysnail's review against another edition

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2.0

waaay too much spice for me lmao, I kept skipping forward to skip all of that 😂

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josie2k's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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gwenswoons's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I loved this! A super-fast lovely holiday romance — listened in audio on one day and it was such a treat while driving and then unpacking, lounging, and resting at home. The two main characters, Saira and Dorian (and their lovely narrators Charlie L. Wood and Tony Roberts!) had so much chemistry and such fully drawn personalities and identities and backstories! I loved it. The MCs also had really believable and significant family and friend relationships, as well as work that they cared about a lot — important to me in a romance or rom-com!! And I always love a bookish protagonist like Saira. I found the sex writing SO HOT (despite generally finding the word “yoni” icky and that being the author's word of choice, hahaha, but it didn’t ruin it for me which is saying a lot honestly).

I thought a few moments were very expository in a sort of heavy-handed way — like in Dorian’s initial chapter where he basically lists out in chronological order the tragic circumstances of his wife’s death leading to his current life as a (hot) widower! Just those and a few other writing-y things that slightly didn’t work for me — a handful of exact-wording repetitions, etc. But overall a delight and will for sure be really excited to read more by Charity Shane’.

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cupcakes_and_coffee's review against another edition

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lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I loved the small-town Christmas setting and all the details. A cute and quick read to keep me in the holiday spirit. It is quite spicy, which I knew going in but thought I was ok with because it was not an unexpected surprise. But IDK, I get that it’s what a lot of people like but the sex scenes really take away from the story imo. They don’t really start until the 2nd half but I ended up just skipping through quickly as I found those parts pretty cringe. I didn’t mark off stars bc it’s just a preference for me and I did really like everything else. The story, the characters, and the writing were all really good.

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missjaz's review against another edition

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hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Cute love story. Easy read. Charming holiday rom-com

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qrb's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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brittany_214's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This was a cute, spicy holiday romance. It was a quick read but the story was well developed. The author did a great job with the mmc working through his grief.

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