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

2.0

This was the most depressing “Christmas” book I have ever read. Daniel’s sister dies, Kate has lost her husband, she and her son seem to be living at poverty level, her job is crap, her mother in law is on the verge of being kicked out of the elderly care facility she’s living in, Kate’s son has recently been tested and identified as having some learning and other difficulties requiring her to find a new school for him, she gets harassed at her company Christmas party, the list goes on and on. There’s very little joy in the book. I was never fully invested because everything seemed so entirely bleak. I never thought there was hope for these characters, so the intensity of the situations never affected me like you think they would.