Sort of melancholy but feel-good in the end, Christmas oriented book, tho I’d classify it more as a women’s fiction than a mystery. There was some mystery but it was easy to piece together rather early on, so it didn’t really feel like a mystery, just something no one in the book wanted to talk about. It had a weird speed - overall really slow and introspective, then fairly dramatic, from reactions, to all the exclamation points, to the characters themselves. It felt a little forced and weird at times. 

The culture and setting of Norway was nice to walk thru - those pieces were descriptive and well described. 

The blurb for the book about the whole Advent thing was weird to me. I didn’t get that vibe from the book at all so I’m not sure why it was marketed that way. It was just like a regular chapter progression. 

Thanks to Netgalley and HarperColins for the advanced copy of this book. All opinions are mine.