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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Loved this book for many reasons but mostly because I’ve been to Edinburgh during Christmas and this book brought back so many memories of my travels there
Loved this book, great Christmas read and more than boy meets girl book.
funny
lighthearted
Delivers on the ‘festive’ front, but the romance is a little weird and underdeveloped. Considering I read this for the Christmasy vibes though, it hit the mark and I’m already starting up the sequel.
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
It's just the perfect and simple Christmas novel I was looking for this season.
Today was the perfect rainy day to cozy up with this Christmas story! This was a joy to read and I couldn’t put it down. I ended up reading it in one sitting!
The setting of this book is absolutely gorgeous and fueled my wanderlust for Edinburgh. It’s hard to connect with the main character, Carmen, at the beginning of this book but I eventually came around to her and she really does show a ton of growth throughout the story. I really enjoyed reading as she made improvements to the bookshop, explored her new hometown, and connected with her family. There were many heartwarming moments in this book when I found myself smiling at the pages.
It’s the love triangle that brought my rating of this book down. While Blair was definitely a pompous jerk at times, he had great chemistry with Carmen and brought a lot of fun dialogue into the story. The other love interest, Oke, was so incredibly lame and robotic. The second half of the book is so full of back and forth, missed connections, and miscommunication with these two men that it’s frustrating. I thought it really bogged down the story, and I found the romance to be really unconvincing in the end.
Besides the romance, I loved everything else about this book! The epilogue at the end was so adorable.
The setting of this book is absolutely gorgeous and fueled my wanderlust for Edinburgh. It’s hard to connect with the main character, Carmen, at the beginning of this book but I eventually came around to her and she really does show a ton of growth throughout the story. I really enjoyed reading as she made improvements to the bookshop, explored her new hometown, and connected with her family. There were many heartwarming moments in this book when I found myself smiling at the pages.
It’s the love triangle that brought my rating of this book down. While Blair was definitely a pompous jerk at times, he had great chemistry with Carmen and brought a lot of fun dialogue into the story. The other love interest, Oke, was so incredibly lame and robotic. The second half of the book is so full of back and forth, missed connections, and miscommunication with these two men that it’s frustrating. I thought it really bogged down the story, and I found the romance to be really unconvincing in the end.
Besides the romance, I loved everything else about this book! The epilogue at the end was so adorable.
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A beautiful story about family, love, friendship and ambition, set during Christmas time in Edinburgh.
This is one of those books that you read and immediately feel a sense of comfort and cozyness. From a personal perspective, this book had all the ingredients to please me: it is set in one of my favorite cities, during a Christmas which is my fav holiday and it follows the day to day life of a bookstore.
Carmen was a good FMC despite some slightly unthought-out attitudes and decisions, she had great development and I loved getting to the end of the book and seeing the relationship that Carmen created with Phoebe, Oke and Mr. McCreddie. On the opposite pole, Pippa and Skylar were probably the most annoying characters and the ones I identified with the least.
All in all, an excellent and cozy book to read during Christmas.
This is one of those books that you read and immediately feel a sense of comfort and cozyness. From a personal perspective, this book had all the ingredients to please me: it is set in one of my favorite cities, during a Christmas which is my fav holiday and it follows the day to day life of a bookstore.
Carmen was a good FMC despite some slightly unthought-out attitudes and decisions, she had great development and I loved getting to the end of the book and seeing the relationship that Carmen created with Phoebe, Oke and Mr. McCreddie. On the opposite pole, Pippa and Skylar were probably the most annoying characters and the ones I identified with the least.
All in all, an excellent and cozy book to read during Christmas.
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced