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What Happens At Christmas by Victoria Alexander
4.0

This story was so ridiculous as to be brilliant, much like the characters.

Camille wants to marry a prince, so she makes cooks up a scheme to hire a fake family to impress a prince for Christmas. What happens from there can best be described as a melodrama. My imagination was not willing to stretch to accommodate the story line, and yet, with each addition of absurdity, I found myself howling with laughter. At the heart of it all was a tender romance nearly lost to pride and arrogance.

The story is about a Christmas farce, and the story itself resembles a farce, but it is keenly written and ultimately entertaining.