A review by laura_mcloughlin
A Christmas Promise by Mary Balogh

3.0

This book was mostly fine. I have read a few of her books before but although they have interesting premises I just have a hard time getting through them. This one was better in that I actually wanted to finish it. It was also written in the early 90s and that very much shows. There are things that did not age well. Also, this is a marriage of convenience story and both characters jump to wrong conclusions about the other's motives and they could have solved a lot of problems by sitting down and talking to one another (their arrangement was such that this wouldn't have been super difficult).

Once the Christmas party got going, and the heroine's large, working class, close knit family showed up the book got much better.

(I purchased this book from my local Romance bookstore as a Holiday Blind Date, so I didn't know what I was getting. It was something fun to liven things up and a great way to support a local business, I would be happy to try my luck again)