A review by booklovingmom_
The Summer of Christmas by Keith Giglio, Juliet Giglio

2.0

I am honestly not sure where to start when reviewing this book. I guess we will start with the fact that I love the cover and the narrator of the audiobook was good, but that’s about all the good I have to say. The description of The Summer of Christmas sounded hood and like something I would love to read, but this book fell really short for me. This would have easily been a DNF for me, but I liked the narrator enough to keep going.

I feel like there was way too much going on in this book, like the authors had too many storylines they wanted to visit so they just shoved them all in. I also found the characters to be annoying and the whole thing to cheesy for me, and this is coming from a Hallmark Christmas movie fan! It also really bothered me how much the pandemic was mentioned. Yes, I know that’s a huge part of the world, but I read to escape and I don’t want to be reminded of the terrible things going on right now in every other chapter.

I really wish I could say I liked this book, but the only redeeming quality was the narrator. I can’t say that I would recommend this book, even though I wish I could. I hate coming across books that I can’t find a redeeming quality in because I know how hard the writer worked on this.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the audiobook, I’m sorry I didn’t like it.