Christmas is all Around by Martha Waters

 

Title:  Christmas is all Around

Author:  Martha Waters

Narrated by:  Nikki Massoud

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Length: Approximately 8 hours and 56 minutes

Source: Review Copy from Simon & Schuster Audio. 

What is your favorite Christmas movie?  I have so many favorites!  My overall favorite Christmas movie and just one of my favorite movies of all time is It’s a Wonderful Life.

As a nine-year-old, Charlotte starred in what would become a classic Christmas movie.  As an adult, she has tried to distance herself from it and become an artist on her own merit.  On a visit with her sister in England, she ends up at Eden Priory and recognizes it as a setting from the movie she starred in as a kid.  She runs into a man changing into a reindeer costume, Graham, and they strike up a friendship based on a mutual dislike of Christmas.  Graham and his family commission Charlotte to create iconic Christmas scenes into illustrations to display to help keep the historic home running.  Will Graham and Charlotte have their own Christmas romance?

My thoughts on this novel:

·       I loved the look into Christmas romance movies and their tropes.  They experienced so many of the tropes including being stuck in an inn with only one room left.

·       I enjoyed that slowly through the book, despite hating Christmas romance, Charlotte and Graham soon find themselves living in a Hallmark movie.

·       I loved the trips the two main characters take to Christmas locations around England.

·       Charlotte and Graham have great chemistry.

·       I would love to see this as a movie!

·       I have enjoyed this author’s Regency romance, and I thought this contemporary romance was just as fun.

·       I also always like love stories that include saving an old historic home.

Overall, Christmas is all Around by Martha Waters was a fun contemporary Christmas romance.  I highly recommend it.