Do you have any favorite Christmas shops that you frequent? I love shopping at Christmas stores, but I
don’t have one favorite. I do love to
buy people presents at Seroogy’s Chocolate shop and they have nice Christmas
items in that store every year that I like to pick up.
Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop is a follow-up to
last year’s The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan. Carmen’s happily ever after has not quite
turned out as it seemed it would. Her
boyfriend, Oke, has returned to Brazil with many questions about the future of
their relationship unresolved. She has
worn out her welcome at her sister Sophia’s house and needs to find a new place
to live. Her boss is thinking about
selling his shop to have money to fulfill his travel dreams. With all of this going on, will Carmen be
able to get her life back on track and have a merry Christmas?
I enjoyed getting back to the characters of the
Christmas Bookshop series and seeing what they’ve been up to. I love Colgan’s characters, especially the
children in this one. The setting is
also wonderful, and I really want to visit this part of Edinburgh someday. I always love the humor in Colgan’s books as
well. This novel was not as good for me
as the first one, mostly because Oke is just gone for most of it with the total
loss of contact with Carmen. Carmen was struggling
through most of the book. There wasn’t
as much Christmas spirit in this book. I
did love how she was able to live in what sounds like a fabulous apartment in
the upper levels of the bookshop and she did make some new friends. I’m hoping there will be a next book where
Carmen has things more together and it’s more focused on Christmas.
It would work best to read Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop
after reading the first book The Christmas Bookshop. I don’t think it would work well as a
standalone novel.
Book Source: Review copy from NetGalley and William Morrow
Books. Thank-you! Opinions expressed in
this review are completely my own.
Setting sounds wonderful
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