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Love, Holly by Emily Stone
5.0

Thank you NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for an arc in exchange for an honest review!

Emily Stone writes the most gut-wrenching yet heart-warming and healing Christmas stories, and Love, Holly is just that. Holly's life and family is torn a part by a car crash that happened at Christmas 3 years ago. Now estranged from her family she writes a "Dear Stranger" letter to feel less alone, and the one she receives mentions the cafe she stopped at right before the tragic car crash. Seeing this as fate Holly tracks down the writer and so our story begins. I love how Emily can intertwine every last detail and writes things for us readers to interpret one way then twist that plot later. This story about forgiveness, grief, and fate will have you believing in second chances and also sobbing but in a healing way.