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Christmas Eve Love Story
by Ginny Baird
This was an ARC but I think I'll wait and post a full review when it's the actual holiday season since it's a Christmas Eve time loop book. But I enjoyed it!
This Christmas Eve time loop love story was very cute and fun. Annie is very isolated, with only her foster cat and her job as a department store window designer to fill her life. She has an awful Christmas Eve, from cat escapades to children knocking down the tree in the window. She does get to meet Braden the attractive security guard who helps her clean up the display, and ends up meeting four of her five neighbors over the day for the first time. Then she wakes up the next day and it's Christmas Eve all over again. And again. And again.
I love the movie Groundhog Day and have since a kid, so I'm always in for a good time loop story and this one did the job. I liked the little twist in this one about the store's full in Santa with the extra twinkly eyes and how certain things stay changed each day as Annie works towards figuring out how to escape the time loop.
Eventually, Braden remembers bits and tries to help her and they become closer. My only issue with the book is that it occasionally switches to his POV, which I liked having, but the switches weren't always super clear. Sometimes it would switch after a scene break within the same chapter, and there weren't name labels attached anywhere. That said, because I read an arc, it may just be the formatting of that version. You never know what they're going to tweak and change before publication, so I don't want to fault the story itself at all.
This story was as much about the two of them as it was Annie creating relationships with other people in her life, including her neighbors. Because of its found family aspect, plus the time loop fun, plus the romance, I think this would make a great Christmas movie!
I read it on its release day, Oct 8, and it got me excited for Christmas this year. But I still wanted to wait until the actual holiday season because posting about Christmas books before Halloween always seems odd to me. Thanks to Sourcebooks Casablanca for the ARC!
This Christmas Eve time loop love story was very cute and fun. Annie is very isolated, with only her foster cat and her job as a department store window designer to fill her life. She has an awful Christmas Eve, from cat escapades to children knocking down the tree in the window. She does get to meet Braden the attractive security guard who helps her clean up the display, and ends up meeting four of her five neighbors over the day for the first time. Then she wakes up the next day and it's Christmas Eve all over again. And again. And again.
I love the movie Groundhog Day and have since a kid, so I'm always in for a good time loop story and this one did the job. I liked the little twist in this one about the store's full in Santa with the extra twinkly eyes and how certain things stay changed each day as Annie works towards figuring out how to escape the time loop.
Eventually, Braden remembers bits and tries to help her and they become closer. My only issue with the book is that it occasionally switches to his POV, which I liked having, but the switches weren't always super clear. Sometimes it would switch after a scene break within the same chapter, and there weren't name labels attached anywhere. That said, because I read an arc, it may just be the formatting of that version. You never know what they're going to tweak and change before publication, so I don't want to fault the story itself at all.
This story was as much about the two of them as it was Annie creating relationships with other people in her life, including her neighbors. Because of its found family aspect, plus the time loop fun, plus the romance, I think this would make a great Christmas movie!
I read it on its release day, Oct 8, and it got me excited for Christmas this year. But I still wanted to wait until the actual holiday season because posting about Christmas books before Halloween always seems odd to me. Thanks to Sourcebooks Casablanca for the ARC!