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elissa_k899 's review for:
Faking Christmas
by Cindy Steel
I don’t tend to rate or reviews books, but there were enough things in this book that drove me crazy that I feel like I need to address it.
I am a native Vermonter and really wish that authors would do even a modicum of research before setting books in Vermont. Vermonters and New Hampshirites do not say “pop”, they say “soda”. We would never describe a small body of running water as a “creek”: it is a “brook”. “Maple creemee ice cream” is redundant. No one would go “up to Killington” from Montpellier; it is due south. And Montpellier is not an idyllic town; it is one of the epicenters of the state opioid epidemic.
Anyway, the story was cute in a seasonal Hallmark kind of way (which is what I was looking for). I just get irritated when authors and editors don’t do at least a bare minimum of cultural research before setting a story in a place where real people work and life.
I am a native Vermonter and really wish that authors would do even a modicum of research before setting books in Vermont. Vermonters and New Hampshirites do not say “pop”, they say “soda”. We would never describe a small body of running water as a “creek”: it is a “brook”. “Maple creemee ice cream” is redundant. No one would go “up to Killington” from Montpellier; it is due south. And Montpellier is not an idyllic town; it is one of the epicenters of the state opioid epidemic.
Anyway, the story was cute in a seasonal Hallmark kind of way (which is what I was looking for). I just get irritated when authors and editors don’t do at least a bare minimum of cultural research before setting a story in a place where real people work and life.