In the year 2000, Christmas, Hanukkah and Ramadan all fall around the same time for the first time in a while. On a plane ride to Toronto Anna and Maryam are seatmates and complete strangers. Anna is flying to meet her boyfriend’s family for the first time, meanwhile Maryam is flying out with her whole family for her sister’s wedding. When the plane hits bad weather, an emergency landing needs to be made in the small town of Snow Falls, just outside of Ottawa. In this snow-filled winter wonderland, they’re all stranded with no sign of getting to Toronto. So they decide to make the best of it, new friendships are formed, family is reconnected, and new love blooms. This was a really cute novel. Yes, you had to suspend your disbelief for the majority of this plot, but the reader was quite content with that. This novel held the cozy fun times a Hallmark movie creates in its wildly unbelievable things that can happen. At times the plot could be very predictable, and cheesy, but this reader didn’t hate that. From some of the reviews on Goodreads, the actuality of an Indian wedding happening during Ramadan are very unlikely, so reading that, this reader didn’t quite get the wedding part of this novel; well they didn’t get it before they read it, and they didn’t get it after. This novel would have been perfectly fine if it didn’t include the wedding, that just seemed a little out of place and it felt a little rushed. The reader understood that plot was used to bring Maryam and her sister closer, and give them a reason for flying, but they could have been flying for any number of reasons and the stranded plot could have brought them closer. Aside from that, it was fun to read about the different holidays and the different traditions. It was kinda nice to see Christmas take a bit of a backseat, although the reader wished that Hanukkah could have gotten the same prominence that Ramadan got, but still good nonetheless. The romances in this were fun and corny. At first the reader didn’t really care for Maryam and Saif, they were both so headstrong in thinking they didn’t like each other, it was frustrating to read; whereas Anna and Josh were fun, a little cumbersome, but still cute. The characters, especially our main ones, Anna and Maryam, started off pretty one dimensional and the reader wasn’t sure if they would like them, especially Anna, but they grew and blossomed really well. The cast of side characters were also really developed well. Dadu was probably the best, he was hilarious and the star of the show; this reader would read a novel with him as the main character any day. Any time his presence was there, he made everything feel relaxing and cozy. The reader was really curious about Nick; obviously he was just a device for Anna to realize her potential, but the reader was actually curious what his deal was; he had villain energy with a dash of heartbreak; it felt kinda tragic. The way Anna and Maryam formed a friendship was really beautiful to watch; it felt genuine and real. This held a lot more emotion than the reader was expecting when it came to love-loss and family, but that just made them love this more. In the end, this was a really sweet holiday book with a little bit of everything inside.