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A review by donnareadathon2021
The Great Christmas Escape by Kellie Hailes
4.0
The story
Sara is a photographer, taking portraits and shooting weddings. Her husband Fin (sort of ex-husband except they aren’t actually divorced) left her 18 months ago. She wanted to be a home body and he wanted to travel and grow his travel blog and didn’t believe she would do that with him. Now Fin has invited Sara to join him in New Zealand over Christmas. She needs inspiration and he needs a great photographer to help him win a travel blogging competition. Will the time together help him win her back?
My thoughts
This book is very strong on the lack of communication trope, it’s not a favorite of mine…. Although here I think the characters of both Sara and Fin actually struggled to communicate as they struggled to understand their own set feelings and patterns that they were holding on to. I enjoyed the descriptive parts about traveling around New Zealand but felt that much of the story was taken up rather by the navel gazing angst of will we / won’t we
Sara is a photographer, taking portraits and shooting weddings. Her husband Fin (sort of ex-husband except they aren’t actually divorced) left her 18 months ago. She wanted to be a home body and he wanted to travel and grow his travel blog and didn’t believe she would do that with him. Now Fin has invited Sara to join him in New Zealand over Christmas. She needs inspiration and he needs a great photographer to help him win a travel blogging competition. Will the time together help him win her back?
My thoughts
This book is very strong on the lack of communication trope, it’s not a favorite of mine…. Although here I think the characters of both Sara and Fin actually struggled to communicate as they struggled to understand their own set feelings and patterns that they were holding on to. I enjoyed the descriptive parts about traveling around New Zealand but felt that much of the story was taken up rather by the navel gazing angst of will we / won’t we