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A review by jamishka
Home Sweet Christmas by Susan Mallery
3.0
Home Sweet Christmas is the second book in the Wishing Tree series and is set yet again during the Christmas season.
This can be read as a standalone book but for a few reasons recommend reading the previous book before tackling this one. For starters, both novels are set in the same town meaning there are cameos from the first book and potential spoilers if you do decide to read both. Secondly, I personally did not enjoy this one as much as The Christmas Wedding Guest so if you are only going to read one, I would recommend going with that one.
Just like the one before, this book had two parallel love stories told from all four persepctives. In the first one it was about two sisters while this one was focuses on two "brothers." Camryn was mentioned in the previous book and so I was expecting to see her as a main character in this one along side Paisley. I was half right! However, making Jake Crane the main beau was something I did not see coming. I struggled a little bit with the idea that this was the same Jake mentioned in the first once. I came into the book already disliking him and already rooting against him. However, I quickly forgot how he did my girl Reggie dirty, and he quickly became one of the best book boyfriends! I enjoyed their story the most: a crazy mom, an adorable puppy and twin sisters, what's not to like!
Dylan and River were brand new characters who had not been previously mentioned which I thought it was strange choice. I enjoyed both of them and their storyline enough, it just wasn't what I was expecting.
I adore the town of Wishing Tree and all the unique characters who bring the town to life. I'm hoping for a third book and to finally see Paisley get her own love story!
This can be read as a standalone book but for a few reasons recommend reading the previous book before tackling this one. For starters, both novels are set in the same town meaning there are cameos from the first book and potential spoilers if you do decide to read both. Secondly, I personally did not enjoy this one as much as The Christmas Wedding Guest so if you are only going to read one, I would recommend going with that one.
Just like the one before, this book had two parallel love stories told from all four persepctives. In the first one it was about two sisters while this one was focuses on two "brothers." Camryn was mentioned in the previous book and so I was expecting to see her as a main character in this one along side Paisley. I was half right! However, making Jake Crane the main beau was something I did not see coming. I struggled a little bit with the idea that this was the same Jake mentioned in the first once. I came into the book already disliking him and already rooting against him. However, I quickly forgot how he did my girl Reggie dirty, and he quickly became one of the best book boyfriends! I enjoyed their story the most: a crazy mom, an adorable puppy and twin sisters, what's not to like!
Dylan and River were brand new characters who had not been previously mentioned which I thought it was strange choice. I enjoyed both of them and their storyline enough, it just wasn't what I was expecting.
I adore the town of Wishing Tree and all the unique characters who bring the town to life. I'm hoping for a third book and to finally see Paisley get her own love story!