Synopsis from Amazon:
All I Want for
Christmas by Gina Rochelle
Ditching her faithless fiancé, schoolteacher Isabella plans
to spend the holidays alone. But when she unintentionally inspires a young
pupil to make an impossible wish, she joins forces with his – totally gorgeous
– uncle to put things right! Could two wishes come true this Christmas?
Dreaming of a White
Wedding by Misty Shaw
When Scarlet discovered her husband-to-be in a
passionate clinch with her bridesmaid, she called off her Valentine’s wedding
and ran away to London. But when her sister asks for her help, she can’t
refuse…even if it means coming face-to-face with her ex – the man she never
stopped loving!
Christmas Every Day by Jaimie Admans
Emma loves bumping
into Gorgeous Dog Walker, Nick, every evening. But when he ends up in a coma
(partly her fault), she ends up taking care of ‘his job’…and his dog! Emma
stopped believing in Santa years ago, but this Christmas her world is about to
be turned upside down!
Christmas Wish Come True is a gift for you this December, snuggle up by the fire, leave the
stresses of Christmas shopping behind you…and relax!
My
review:
Nice and easy reading for Christmas
time. I was looking forward to reading the three stories but overall I was a
little disappointed. All three novellas have a pretty good story line and
potential but only one really delivered the Christmas romance that I was
looking for and that was the third story: Christmas Every Day by Jaimie Admans.
Below are mini reviews for each of the stories.
All
I Want for Christmas
= The story of a ditched bride Isabella who comes to teach at a school in snowy
mountains. Isabella rapidly involves herself in the life of a little boy called
Tyler and his gorgeous (of course) Uncle Jordan. She moves in with them and
looks after Tyler and gets herself knotted up in their lives.
I thought the story required a full
book rather than a quick read story. The potential was there but it was rushed
and a lot of twist and turns were cramped into a short space, which made the
story unrealistic so the score for this one is 3/5.
Dreaming
of a White Wedding =
Scarlet works as a make-up artist in London but is dreaming of working in
Brighton with her twin sister Cressida. When her sister calls on her help,
which involved the trick of standing in for your identical twin and pretend you
are them hoping nobody notices, she agrees but only because her ex-fiancé is
supposedly abroad. Of course that doesn’t work out and they meet again and
sparks fly.
This was my least favourite of the
three. The romance of the story was actually quite sickening. The spirit of
love is overdone here right from the start until the last words and I was relieved
when I finished it. Score for this story is 1/5 which might seem harsh but it
really was not for me.
Christmas
Every Day = Emma sees
Gorgeous Dog Walker (GDW) every day and is secretly fantasizing about him. Until
one day their lives are thrown together in a car crash and GDW asks Emma to
look after his job, which would be easier if she knew what that was, where he
lived or what his actual name was.
Now this was a story I enjoyed. Thrown
in with quite a lot of Christmas magic, the story was written with humour and
just the right amount of romance. The ideas behind chimney sweeping, the grumpy
elf Twinkle and all the responsibilities that come with being Santa were
refreshing and entertaining. Score for this story is 4.5/5 – I would love to
read a full book so the author could expand on the story.
Thank you very much to Netgalley for access to this book in exchange for an honest opinion.
My rating: 3/5
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