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5 festive books on my must-read list this Christmas season
I’m so delighted to be joining in with another top 5 Tuesday post (albeit a little late). Top 5 Tuesday is a meme hosted by lovely Meeghan at Meeghan Reads – you can see lists of prompts for the rest of the year here – one of my bloggy resolutions next year is going to be to post these more regularly! This week’s theme was a freebie and since I’ve been organising my shelves and pulling together my tbr of festive reads I thought that would be a good one to share.*** Everyone this Christmas has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan…
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Review: I’ll be Home for Mischief by Jacqueline Frost
Yes it’s only August, but my tbr is filling up with fab new festive books coming out between now and Christmas so I thought I’d get a bit of a head start on sharing some reviews. Today I’m talking about the newest novel in Jacqueline Frost’s Christmas Tree Farm Mystery series, I’ll be Home for Mischief, which was one of the books I featured in my Christmas preview last month. Check out the synopsis from the publisher, and then read on for my thoughts! What is Jacqueline Frost’s I’ll be Home for Mischief about? It’s Christmastime in Mistletoe, Maine, and the Historical Society has launched a widespread campaign to celebrate…
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Christmas :: The Christmas Trip by Sandy Barker
I’ve always got my eyes peeled for Aussie Christmas book and Sandy Barker’s 2020 release – The Christmas Swap – is a firm favourite festive read of mine, so of course I was absolutely delighted to that a sequel was coming out this year! The Christmas Trip revisits the same couples we fell in love with in The Christmas Swap, one year on from the events of that book. What is Sandy Barker’s The Christmas Trip about? It’s a year on and our three May Ladies are all loved up but still living worlds apart. Chloe has had a whirlwind year amongst the glitz, glamour (and demanding work) of Hollywood.…
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Review :: Christmas at Fox Farm by Helen Pollard
I have a bit of an obsession with Yorkshire, so this cute cosy Christmas romance set in the Dales appealed to me right away (also – that cover is so perfect!). What is Helen Pollard’s Christmas at Fox Farm about? Living at Fox Farm, with its cosy café, beautiful pottery studio and charming gift shop, is a dream come true for thirty-one-year-old Daisy. The kindly owner, Jean, and the close-knit village feel like the home and family Daisy has never had. She’s been looking forward to her first magical Christmas in the countryside. When Jean suddenly falls ill, Daisy is the first to lend a hand. She ropes in Alex – Jean’s handsome…
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Review :: In the Event of Love
I requested a copy of Courtney Kae’s In the Event of Love right away when I saw it on NetGalley, for two main reasons. One, because the cover is so cute, and two – more importantly – I almost never see queer holiday romance novels around. Plus, I feel like sapphic love stories (ie between two women) are really not celebrated and represented as much or maybe as openly as other relationships in books I see around. I was super pleased to see that Kensington Books (one of my go-to publishers for cosy Christmas romance novels) was publishing this one, even though in the end it didn’t quite hit the…
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Review :: A Bookshop Christmas by Rachel Burton
Ok, it might be a bit obvious, but nothing makes me want to pick up a book more than it being both Christmassy AND bookish! I jumped at the chance to review Rachel Burton’s A Bookshop Christmas when I spotted it on NetGalley. What is Rachel Burton’s A Bookshop Christmas about? A snowstorm. A stranger. A spark. It should be the perfect start to the perfect love story. But real life is far messier and more complicated than in the pages of the books in Megan Taylor’s family bookshop – the last few years have left this young widow in no doubt of that. Moving back home to York should…
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Review : Have Yourself a Fudgy Little Christmas by Nancy Coco
Ok, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I love a cosy mystery cover! The cats on the covers especially get me! And the titles! The puns! I feel like half the fun comes before you even open the cover haha. Have Yourself a Fudgy Little Christmas by Nancy Coco was released in 2020 and I didn’t quite manage to get to reviewing it then, but it catches my eye every time I browse my NetGalley shelf and it was finally time to pick it up. Check out the synopsis, then my review below. What is Nancy Coco’s Have Yourself a Fudgy Little Christmas about? All Allie…
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Review :: Cathy’s Christmas Kitchen by Tilly Tennant
Tilly Tennant is one of my favourite writers of cosy Christmas novels – I’ve talked about some of her previous books here and here. I don’t know why it took my so long to get to this one – especially since it has food at its centre, which I always think makes these Christmas stories even cosier. What is Tilly Tennant’s Cathy’s Christmas Kitchen about? Cathy cooked at her mother’s side her whole life and could bake a fairy cake before she could ride a bike. Now she is facing her first Christmas without her beloved mother, she’s determined to use her memories for something positive. She decides to organise a…
