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The Christmas Sisters | Sarah Morgan

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Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances | John Green

so-so

The last story in Let It Snow. The main character has no redeeming qualities, the entire story was focused on her learning how to care about others but I‘m not sure it happened…

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Robotswithpersonality

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret : A Festive Mystery | Benjamin Stevenson

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This really makes me think I'd have a better time with murder mysteries if they were all novella length. A couple caveats: I've had a good time with each book in this series thanks to the cheeky meta angle as well as the quality of the writing, and the last two books were not novellas. I also accept that if you're a one off or the first book in a murder mystery series you might have to take more time to introduce characters, and that adds 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? to the page count.
But this book did a great job of reminding the reader of the protagonist's circumstances, introducing a list of suspects, their motives, the murders, and exploring clues before realizations and reveals. The pace was perfect. We all know my beef with drag-it-out-for-the-tension/drama thrillers, but classic murder mysteries are guilty in their own way of regularly veering off a promising track because of some obstacle or 3d

Robotswithpersonality 3/? other.
Readers could argue that perhaps too many people were cooperative this time around, but the investigation stayed engaging and didn't feel too easy or too fast. I do wish that the murders/suspect pool didn't revolve around a charity for people recovering from addiction, but the other thing this author regularly brings to this series is an edge of pathos, this quiet wish that things hadn't turned out like this, even amidst the relief 3d

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 of solving/surviving. Maybe that sounds like a given for any half-decent detective story, but something about the empathetic way Stevenson writes Cunningham makes it hit a little harder.
Happy to have another murder mystery series where I look forward to the next installment. 3d

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Robotswithpersonality

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret : A Festive Mystery | Benjamin Stevenson

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LibrarianRyan

The Christmas Princess | Mariah Carey, Michaela Angela Davis

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2 ⭐Complete vanity project. First off, this book is massively too wordy for a picture book. And it‘s about little Mariah; Mariah Carey when she was younger. She even talks to herself in the form of a letter at the beginning of a book. It is also not an adverb or an adjective that I think this woman has forgotten about. Everything must have three to four, sometimes five adjectives to describe it. And things are constantly told to the reader over

LibrarianRyan and over and over again. While this book does have a co-writer I don‘t know what the job of the co-writer was. Because this does sound like Mariah Carey, but it is also so over the top. The illustrations are wonderful. I give credit or credit is due. But as for this book, no it‘s not worth the time it takes to read it. Which is a shame. Giving a celebrity a vanity picture just to grab the money of readers. At least make a better book. Part of me 4d

LibrarianRyan wonders what Mariah‘s family, particularly her mom and her grandmother, might say about how her early beginnings are described and illustrated in this book. It makes me sad for them even though I don‘t know them or anything about them. 4d

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Holiday Honeymoon Switch | Julia McKay

Hoping to get to this one today…

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The Christmas Sisters | Sarah Morgan

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This one was carried over from last year on both my #readyourebooks & #Roll100 lists.
I‘m glad I didn‘t get to it in December. It was such a great read & really hit the spot right now.
Morgan takes the time to develop her characters & it gets you invested in them & the various storylines. All this while pacing it so the book never drags. She‘s an auto read author for me now.

CBee, TheAromaofBooks, PuddleJumper

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! This is the first book by this author I read and I really loved it. Now I try to read her new Christmas book every year!! 5d

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Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances | John Green

so-so

The second story in “Let It Snow”.

Frankly I am just not a fan of John Green‘s writing. The ending is good, but the rest leading up to it was too pretentious for my taste.

TheBookHippie I cannot read him. 1w

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PatriciaU

Candy Slain Murder | Maddie Day

Vibing on cozy mysteries. This one‘s pretty good but, jeesh some of them are SO BAD! Who are some of your favorite cozy authors?

kspenmoll Cozy mysteries# are fun! Lee Hollis, Eva Gates, sheila Connolly, Ellery Adams,Leslie Budewitz, Ellie Alexander, Victoria Gilbert, Kate Collins,Jenn McKinlay,Paige Shelton,Vicki Delany, etc!!!! 1w

BethM I loooove cozies! @kspenmoll gave a great list! Two of my other faves are Kirsten Weiss paranormal museum series, and most anything by Amanda Flower. 1w

PatriciaU Oooh. These all sound interesting! I‘ll be giving my library card a workout! 1w

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Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances | John Green

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The first of three short stories in “Let It Snow”, I was going to leave it as one but the second story is not as good.

The Jubilee Express
Jubilee, stranded in an unknown town after her train was halted by a blizzard meets Stuart and his perky mom.

A cute, quick short read.

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