Picture Christmas in a large old house with lots of corridors and a blazing open fire. It's snowing outside and your sitting by the aga sipping a glass of mulled wine. Sounds perfect doesn't it? Well that's Holly Brown thought when she was at Old House, until the rest of the Martland family descended on her and decided to spend Christmas with her.
I wanted to read a book that was festive and help me to get into the spirit of Christmas. This book stood out on Amazon and as it was heavily reduced, as most books are on there at the moment, I bought it. When it arrived I was pleasantly surprised to find that it had lots of glitter on the front cover - something I absolutely love.
The storyline was good, nothing special and at times slightly predictable but it was good and well thought out. The characters were good as well. There was lost of detail on Holly and the reader really did get to feel what she was feeling throughout the story. It did go on a bit though. Normally in books you don't include every single detail of every day in the life of the character, but this is what was happening here. The story spanned only about a week - the time leading up to Christmas and it finished at New Year, but every single detail of what Holly did each of those 7 days was included. The meals were a big feature of the book and every single meal was described in detail which I felt was a bit un necessary.
I did enjoy the book and kept on reading, though I rarely don't finish a book - it's got to be really bad for me not to finish a book. It didn't have the desired effect of getting me in the mood for Christmas but I don't think anything could have done that this year, it just didn't feel right.
Perhaps I will try reading it again next year and post my verdict then!
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