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Christmas by the Book

 


Christmas by the Book by Anne Marie Ryan

First, I want to say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. I hope you all have had a great holiday season and a wonderful Christmas!

Title: Christmas by the Book
Author: Anne Marie Ryan
Genre: Fiction
Published in: 2020
Age suggestion: Young adult and up
Spice-o-meter: Spice-free
My rating: 4.5 out of 5

My thoughts:
I rated this book 4.5 out of 5. I really enjoyed this book. It was a very wholesome Christmas season read that takes place in a small village in the United Kingdom. It felt a bit slow in the beginning, but I actually got used to the pace and realized it wasn't so much "slow" as just different than what I'm used to. The books I usually read have a lot of action, this one didn't have action so much but it told the story of an entire community and their struggles and their journeys to find happiness around Christmas.

The book was told from many different perspectives, which I'm not usually a fan of, but for this book it worked. I didn't really have a favorite character because they were all important in the story. The character who had the most development was David Langdon, a politician in Parliament.

This book may be for you if you like:
  • Non-US based books
  • Easy fiction reads
  • Split perspectives
  • Wholesome "tied-up-with-a-bow" stories
Overall, I'm very glad I picked this book off the shelf at Barnes & Noble for a Christmas read this year. It's not a romance like most of them were, it was a story of hardship and resilience of a small town.
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