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rachie877's review
5.0
Heart warming and heart wrenching
It’s been a while since a book brought me to tears - but this book did it several times.
EE wrote in their notes at the end that Xmas stories always have the best focus - kindness, generosity and family and that is so true. This book has all of this in spades (cue happy tears) with an underlying sadness to the story as well (cue sad tears).
An absolutely beautiful story, I 110% recommend you read it!
It’s been a while since a book brought me to tears - but this book did it several times.
EE wrote in their notes at the end that Xmas stories always have the best focus - kindness, generosity and family and that is so true. This book has all of this in spades (cue happy tears) with an underlying sadness to the story as well (cue sad tears).
An absolutely beautiful story, I 110% recommend you read it!
mmromancereviewed's review
5.0
I ugly cried.. in a good way
For my full review, please click the link below:
http://www.mmromancereviewed.com/2021/11/the-best-gift-by-eli-easton.html
For my full review, please click the link below:
http://www.mmromancereviewed.com/2021/11/the-best-gift-by-eli-easton.html
malex117's review
4.0
it was perfect for my mood
I wanted to read a well written, not sad but not overly fluffy book with real characters and good plot. It was everything I was looking for, so yay. Eli Easton is an amazing author. Age gap- military guy- grief- Christmas wonderland.
I wanted to read a well written, not sad but not overly fluffy book with real characters and good plot. It was everything I was looking for, so yay. Eli Easton is an amazing author. Age gap- military guy- grief- Christmas wonderland.
papercranestitches's review
4.0
*** 4.25 Stars ***
What a wonderful xmas story from Ms. Easton! It was note perfect - exactly what you would expect and want from a Christmas story. My favourite so far this season.
What a wonderful xmas story from Ms. Easton! It was note perfect - exactly what you would expect and want from a Christmas story. My favourite so far this season.
so_many_books's review
5.0
A book that basically had me sobbing from page one. This book was soo full of love and warm and fuzzy feelings that it earned the best christmas book I've read in a long time.
Christmas is always an emotional time for me, because just like Greg, one of our main characters, I am missing a person from the dinner table on Christmas Eve. So no question that this book had me in tears a few minutes in.
Add a veteran, broken by survivor's guilt and PTSD, looking for a place to start over and you got yourself a deeply emotional read.
The Best Gift is set at Cabot's, a christmas tree farm in Vermont bringing the holiday cheers to the locals and visitors since Greg's Grandpa started the business. But this year Greg is thinking of closing shop after loosing his son to the war. He's a deeply broken man who lost his spirit among with his son.
Until one day, a package shows up from Sam. A last gift finding its way home after a long time.
And on the same day, Robbie, a veteran, is picked up hitchhiking to town by Greg and staying to help out for the season at the end.
Their story is heartbreaking but seeing them help put each other back together and providing the support and laughter they missed for a long time was so cathartic and heartwarming.
And with all the holiday feels, deacorating a tree, serving costumers in the shop, snowball fights and sleigh rides, this story was just the perfect read!
If you need a short, heartwarming, tearjerking christmas story about broken men finding their place and love again, than this is the book for you!
Loved it!
Thank you to GRR for providing me a copy to review! ❤
Christmas is always an emotional time for me, because just like Greg, one of our main characters, I am missing a person from the dinner table on Christmas Eve. So no question that this book had me in tears a few minutes in.
Add a veteran, broken by survivor's guilt and PTSD, looking for a place to start over and you got yourself a deeply emotional read.
The Best Gift is set at Cabot's, a christmas tree farm in Vermont bringing the holiday cheers to the locals and visitors since Greg's Grandpa started the business. But this year Greg is thinking of closing shop after loosing his son to the war. He's a deeply broken man who lost his spirit among with his son.
Until one day, a package shows up from Sam. A last gift finding its way home after a long time.
And on the same day, Robbie, a veteran, is picked up hitchhiking to town by Greg and staying to help out for the season at the end.
Their story is heartbreaking but seeing them help put each other back together and providing the support and laughter they missed for a long time was so cathartic and heartwarming.
And with all the holiday feels, deacorating a tree, serving costumers in the shop, snowball fights and sleigh rides, this story was just the perfect read!
If you need a short, heartwarming, tearjerking christmas story about broken men finding their place and love again, than this is the book for you!
Loved it!
Thank you to GRR for providing me a copy to review! ❤
evelyn2015's review
5.0
4.5⭐️ This was so adorable. Such a sweet, emotional Christmas novella about healing and finding love after loss. I love the hurt/comfort and magical/serendipity themes. I just wish it was longer. It would have been so much better as a full length novel with a bit more spice.
stillsarahjane's review
4.0
This is an age-gap MM holiday romance with two men who have a shared part of their past. It's a bit angsty and deals with grief over the loss of a child, all set on a Christmas tree farm. This is two people coming together to heal each other heal and I think I cried at the end for sure.
bgrrrl's review
4.0
A sweet little Christmas novella with a heartwarming tale of finding love after grief with maybe a little help from a special Angel.