A review by halle_elizabeth
The Gift by Freida McFadden

dark tense fast-paced

4.0

4/5 Stars 

This Christmas novelette was a nice change of pace from typical holiday reading. At first, the story was reminding me so much of, “Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas” but I knew since this was Freida that there was going to be a dark or crazy twist somewhere within the story. 

The novelette didn’t disappoint! There was a twist & this story doesn’t have a happy ending so don’t go in thinking it’s a cute Christmas story. I liked all of the characters & the epilogue was a really nice touch. If Freida decided to make this a full length book I would 100% read it. I’m interested to know what happens next & would love more context on what actually ended up happening from Stella’s POV.