This is not a typical Christmas romance, which was refreshing! I feel like so many holiday books focus on romance and a happily ever after. The Christmas Orphan’s Club instead focuses on the value of friendship and platonic love, with some romantic love mixed in. It’s about found family and traditions. What really resonated with me was learning to adapt traditions as life changes. This is something I have struggled with, so I really related to Hannah, the main character, as she had to figure this out. 

The writing was a little ‘eh’ at parts, but I still really enjoyed this. As this was Becca’s debut novel, I would read something else from her. 

One of the MCs, Finn, is Black and shared some tidbits of being a Black man living in NYC and coming out as gay to his family. It was hard to read about the homophobia he experienced, but I think it added so much to the story.