This so absolutely the typical "Hallmark" Christmas movie ... in book form. It was fine, I won't remember it at all. I was glad it was done and told myself "no more 'ChristmasMovie' movies or books"... just fluff and no substance and probably not worth the time investment. 

3rd person/past tense - single narrator ... fine, felt a little "old" in the voice, not as contemporary (even though the book is fairly new). 

So stereotypical - girl goes to small town with the Christmas name (Pinecone Falls here) so wrap things up with Grandma's old in. Meets up with "him" (here, an old childhood friend). Some miscommunications, will the big Christmas party need to be cancelled? Throw in a dog and a cat ... I know the blurbs can shift up, but this one is very misleading where Kringle is concerned. The blurb "Kringle, the cat, only wants a warm home and his forever human. This girl, Julie, does not seem to fit the bill no matter what the nice lady at the animal shelter told him. Julie knows nothing about cats so he will do his best to get her to return him to the shelter. But as the week unfolds, Kringle discovers that people can change in surprising ways and sometimes what you thought you wanted, isn’t what you really needed at all." Kringle is NOT personified as a "thinking" cat ... we don't get his POV (it has happened in books where we get the animal's perspective).

The book says it's the first in a series - but I don't see sequels (okay by me).  The kindle copy was available in KindleUnlimited, audio available in Hoopla.