It’s a very Christmas-y story but there is a LOT of church and religion mixed in!!! I did skip a lot of it at first but it became laborious to keep doing that. Too much for this reader. 
Plus I couldn’t seem to get into the story. 

I finally read (listened) to this book and I’m so glad I did! I want to get a hard copy of it to annotate multiple sentences that I loved! 
I’m not sure if I want to give a full 5 stars or not due to the extremely long lists of “regrets” and “in this life”  that I skipped over. I’m sure that could have been just as effective with a shorter list! So for now it’s a 4.75 stars for me but maybe I’ll change it when I think about it some more. 

(1.65x) narration 4 stars

Unfortunately this was not a book for me. I skipped many pages to get to the end so I could use it for a December reading mini challenge. 
I was not able to connect with any of the characters or the scenes. It felt like a Hallmark movie on paper. Maybe it was suppose to but it was just to formatted.