GottaCatchEmAllWinter

A Very Nantucket Christmas: Two Holiday Novels | Nancy Thayer

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A soft pick for these two loosely-connected stories that take place on Nantucket a year apart. These were super Hallmarky and perfectly pleasant. I enjoyed the first more than the second, because the mom in the second story drove me kind of crazy. But the greatest tragedy is that I was 160 pages in and all of the sudden the book skipped to page 216!! Right at the big finale of chaos (you know, where the kid ran away with the puppy and supper is ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) getting ready to burn and the baby is coming early and someone's ex showed up unexpectedly... the usual Christmas stuff 😂) SO I caved and purchased this book for a SECOND time except in Kindle version! All in all I was missing about 40 pages, which is a lot when the story is only 195pgs long. But it all worked out because then I was able to search the Kindle version for word search words and found 674!!!!!

So yeah, not groundbreaking ⬇ 3w

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) but these were still fun.

#WinterGames #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks
#SeriesRead2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65
#ReadorDonate (technically trashing since no one should have to deal with 40 missing pages!!!) @julieclair
#ChristmasAtoZ @Texreader
#GottaCatchEmAllWinter - TBR, Snowy @PuddleJumper
#Adventathon @BookmarkTavern
#BookSpinBingo #ISpyBingo 3w

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 3w

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TheSpineView Great job! 3w

AnnCrystal 😳yikes👀📚💝. 3w

Andrew65 Excellent 🎄🎄🎄 3w

BookmarkTavern Wow! But an excellent number for the word search! 3w

julieclair How bizarre! You can now have your own personalized hashtag, #ReadOrTrash 🤪 3w

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TheAromaofBooks

Making Spirits Bright | Nan Rossiter, Fern Michaels, Rosalind Noonan, Elizabeth Bass

so-so

Four novellas in one by four different authors.
Making Spirits Bright - 1*, absolutely dreadful. Besides the story making 0% sense, the entire plot of a rich woman just deciding she wishes she had a kid or two and immediately just running out to try and rush through an adoption felt honestly icky, like kids were a commodity that she could just go out and buy on a whim like a puppy. It was weird. But maybe I'm sensitive to it because my youngest ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) sister was adopted out of foster care, so I kept saying, “that isn't how any of this works?!“
Runaway Christmas - 3.5*, best of the bunch. Fun story where a teen runs away to visit her aunt in NYC for Christmas. However, the aunt is having a rough couple of days where things keep going wrong and she keeps getting saddled with more random responsibilities (starting with the neighbor's dog and escalating from there). Super fun and cute. ⬇ 4w

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) Home for Christmas - 3*, the FMC is a single mom and once read ONE book by ONE person saying that single moms shouldn't date because it can make your kid feel insecure and unloved (or something) so she literally spends the story snogging her crush in a garage at night after the kid has gone to bed. I just. The rest of the story about saving the inn was fun, but the romance was dumb.

Christmas on Cape Cod - 2*, Would have been higher if ⬇ 4w

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) the author could have been bothered to take two paragraphs to explain to me how these characters are related/how they ended up where they are. I don't know if these characters are from other books by this author so she just assumed I already knew everyone, but I THINK what happened is is Guy A was dating Girl and she got pregnant and they broke up and Girl married Guy B and then a few years later Guy B died so the kid went back to Guy A ⬇ 4w

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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) who is the actual birth dad?? Or something?? This was actually a perfectly pleasant little story about a single dad and his son getting a puppy for Christmas and realizing the girl next door is hot stepmom material, but I couldn't enjoy it because I spent the entire 80 pages in detective mode trying to figure out what the heck was going on with these people based on vague hints from the author. SO annoying. 4w

TheAromaofBooks #WinterGames #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks
#ReadorDonate - DONATE 😂 @julieclair
#WinterCosy #GottaCatchEmAllWinter (Mountain, Storm, Family, Hot Drink) @PuddleJumper
#Adventathon @BookmarkTavern
#WickedWords (Family, Turkey) @AsYouWish
#ChristmasAtoZ @Texreader
#ReadtheUSA (New Hampshire)
#ISpyBingo #BookSpinBingo
#GingerbreadJourney @Bookwormjillk 4w

Bookwormjillk Story #1 yikes 4w

TheAromaofBooks @Bookwormjillk - It was extra weird because I've read other books by Fern Michaels and enjoyed them, but this one was just bizarre. 4w

PuddleJumper ❄️💙❄️ 4w

julieclair Very entertaining review! I‘d say donate is definitely the right move here. 😂 4w

BookmarkTavern Oof, yeah that first one feels icky to me too! Hope the next read is better! 4w

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TheAromaofBooks

Magic Binds: A Kate Daniels Novel | Ilona Andrews

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My first book completed for #WinterGames isn't remotely Christmasy, but it was the book I was halfway through reading when December 1 arrived 😂 I've been working my way through the Kate Daniels series all year and I LOVE IT. I wasn't sure at first because they're a little more violent than my personal tastes, but I've gotten better at skipping what I need to skip haha the characters, the world-building, all the secondary characters, everything ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) is put together so well. I'm completely invested not just in Kate, but in her whole family/friends group. Can't wait to see where this story goes next. 1mo

TheAromaofBooks #HolidayBookDragons @LiseWorks
#SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65
#WickedWords (Office) @AsYouWish
#WinterCosy @PuddleJumper
#ChristmasAtoZ @Texreader
#20in4 @Andrew65
#GottaCatchEmAllWinter @PuddleJumper
#FirstSnowReadathon @StayCurious @LiseWorks
#Adventathon @BookmarkTavern 1mo

TheSpineView Great series! ❤️📖📚 1mo

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PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1mo

Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 1mo

LiseWorks Love this series 1mo

StayCurious I‘ll have to try this series 1mo

Texreader Whatever works to get those points!! 1mo

robinb One of my first urban fantasy series (it led me to many more) and like you I LOVED IT! I raced through them like potato chips. LOL (edited) 1mo

Larkken I love all their books! So glad you're enjoying them 💗 1mo

BookmarkTavern Looks like a fun read! 1mo

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