A review by thereadingbee
25 Days 'til Christmas by Poppy Alexander

2.0

I’m going to keep this review short and sweet because I understand what the author was trying to do with this book, but it just didn’t work for me. I couldn’t connect with any of the characters and instead of getting a lighthearted holiday read like I was expecting, I ended up with a depressing story about a single underpaid and over-worked mom who couldn’t catch a break. I respect the hardships the characters were suffering, but for a holiday read it was much more of a downer than I was looking for and found myself not picking it up very often. I ended struggling through this book to the end most likely because it was for a buddy read and I didn’t want to slack in our discussions, but had this been one I picked up on my own, it probably would have been a DNF for me.