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A review by lenoreo
Mistletoe in Paradise by Jill Shalvis
3.0
https://celebrityreaders.com/2021/07/26/mistletoe-in-paradise-by-jill-shalvis/
3.5 stars — I think I wasn’t in the right mood for this book at this time…or really any books at this particular moment. Which always sucks for the book, b/c I think it gets short shrift.
Erin Mallon was solid as the narrator as always. It helps that I enjoy her male voices a whole lot.
I feel like I was expecting something slightly different from the blurb. Like I read it over again now and I feel like it gives a slightly wrong impression of what the book actually was. I don’t really want to describe it, but it was less light and fluffy than I was hoping. And a lot more family drama than I was expecting for a novella. I guess in a novella I’m more expecting the story to be romance centered.
In the end I’m not sure I fell in love with either Hannah or James. They were both complicated characters who were pretty blind to their own flaws and contributions. I can’t help but wonder how they genuinely made it work, because I know Hannah said she would focus on change until she achieved it, but she was full on workaholic, so… And James was kind of oblivious to others in some ways…most particularly Hannah. I guess I just wasn’t completely sold on the turnaround.
I’m still trying to figure out why it was good, but not great, and I think another part is that there were a LOT of VERY flawed characters in this one, and I didn’t really have someone good in the background to hold on to. Her parents were equally terrible…Harry was lovable, but terrible. James’s parents were better, but there were misunderstandings there too.
I don’t know. I don’t know! *snort* Whatever. Basically, it didn’t deliver the light and fluffy and Christmas-soaked romance I was hoping for.
3.5 stars — I think I wasn’t in the right mood for this book at this time…or really any books at this particular moment. Which always sucks for the book, b/c I think it gets short shrift.
Erin Mallon was solid as the narrator as always. It helps that I enjoy her male voices a whole lot.
I feel like I was expecting something slightly different from the blurb. Like I read it over again now and I feel like it gives a slightly wrong impression of what the book actually was. I don’t really want to describe it, but it was less light and fluffy than I was hoping. And a lot more family drama than I was expecting for a novella. I guess in a novella I’m more expecting the story to be romance centered.
In the end I’m not sure I fell in love with either Hannah or James. They were both complicated characters who were pretty blind to their own flaws and contributions. I can’t help but wonder how they genuinely made it work, because I know Hannah said she would focus on change until she achieved it, but she was full on workaholic, so… And James was kind of oblivious to others in some ways…most particularly Hannah. I guess I just wasn’t completely sold on the turnaround.
I’m still trying to figure out why it was good, but not great, and I think another part is that there were a LOT of VERY flawed characters in this one, and I didn’t really have someone good in the background to hold on to. Her parents were equally terrible…Harry was lovable, but terrible. James’s parents were better, but there were misunderstandings there too.
I don’t know. I don’t know! *snort* Whatever. Basically, it didn’t deliver the light and fluffy and Christmas-soaked romance I was hoping for.