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Saddle Up for Christmas: A Christmassy Cowboy Romance. Feel Good. Friends to Lovers. by Riley S. Collins
3.0
A small town, friends to lovers, clean holiday romance between a rancher and a fashion designer.
Holly Morgan has always loved returning to her hometown of Evergreen Creek for the holidays. However, this year is a little more bittersweet because her family's toy store has been struggling, and her parents are considering shutting it down. Holly and her twin brother Ethan have different plans, though. Holly decides to return home early and do everything in her power to throw an event that will restore some holiday spirit to the town of Evergreen Creek and inspire the younger generations to get more involved. While on her mission, Holly can't help but notice that her high school crush, Flynn Dawson, is still single. Can Morgan save her parent's business while also pursuing the man of her dreams all in time for Christmas?
Honestly, this book was way better than I thought it would be. Between the seductive cover and the supreme indie vibes of this book, I had serious doubts that this book would pan out to be anything worth reading. Luckily, this book contained no spice and honestly did a great job of presenting a Hallmark like vibe. The plot in this one was pretty cute with the Morgan twins trying to organize a townwide event to restore holiday spirit and draw attention to their family's shop.
This book was certainly very indie though. It was definitely not edited rigorously enough; there were so many spelling mistakes, punctuation errors, and even some names that were lowercased or misspelled. This did take away from the reading experience just a little because there were several times that I had to pause to figure out what the typos were supposed to be.
The biggest gripe that I have about this one is the third act conflict. It was so petty and stupid. Yes, misunderstandings happen, but they were all so pathetic in this book. How could one think that the instances they saw were acts of romance? Anyway, I digress, but the ending was truly a bummer in my opinion. And the conclusion of this book felt very rushed and didn't touch on any of the festival events at all. A big disappointment, in my opinion.
Overall, "Saddle Up for Christmas" was a pretty cozy holiday read that really read like a Hallmark movie. It wasn't a horrible story, but it certainly had its fair share of problems. However, for a Christmas romance, I didn't find it that bad, which was quite a welcome relief. I can't say I'd recommend this one, but if you are a fan of small town holiday romances with no spice, this in an option to explore.
Holly Morgan has always loved returning to her hometown of Evergreen Creek for the holidays. However, this year is a little more bittersweet because her family's toy store has been struggling, and her parents are considering shutting it down. Holly and her twin brother Ethan have different plans, though. Holly decides to return home early and do everything in her power to throw an event that will restore some holiday spirit to the town of Evergreen Creek and inspire the younger generations to get more involved. While on her mission, Holly can't help but notice that her high school crush, Flynn Dawson, is still single. Can Morgan save her parent's business while also pursuing the man of her dreams all in time for Christmas?
Honestly, this book was way better than I thought it would be. Between the seductive cover and the supreme indie vibes of this book, I had serious doubts that this book would pan out to be anything worth reading. Luckily, this book contained no spice and honestly did a great job of presenting a Hallmark like vibe. The plot in this one was pretty cute with the Morgan twins trying to organize a townwide event to restore holiday spirit and draw attention to their family's shop.
This book was certainly very indie though. It was definitely not edited rigorously enough; there were so many spelling mistakes, punctuation errors, and even some names that were lowercased or misspelled. This did take away from the reading experience just a little because there were several times that I had to pause to figure out what the typos were supposed to be.
The biggest gripe that I have about this one is the third act conflict. It was so petty and stupid. Yes, misunderstandings happen, but they were all so pathetic in this book. How could one think that the instances they saw were acts of romance? Anyway, I digress, but the ending was truly a bummer in my opinion. And the conclusion of this book felt very rushed and didn't touch on any of the festival events at all. A big disappointment, in my opinion.
Overall, "Saddle Up for Christmas" was a pretty cozy holiday read that really read like a Hallmark movie. It wasn't a horrible story, but it certainly had its fair share of problems. However, for a Christmas romance, I didn't find it that bad, which was quite a welcome relief. I can't say I'd recommend this one, but if you are a fan of small town holiday romances with no spice, this in an option to explore.