A review by skyhazzard
So, This Is Christmas by Tracy Andreen

lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

This book was okay but didn’t really give me anything special to make it stand out. I mean at the start of the book Finley goes on about how boring and ordinary she is which feels like what every main character ever says but for some reason the girls are jealous and the guys want her. Now back in her hometown she felt like someone, she was smart and had top grades, has some friends, had a good looking boyfriend but once she goes to boarding school she’s no longer top of the class she’s just average, she has trouble making friends with her rich classmates, and forget about boys.

So she basically gives up, decides to go back home for Christmas and possibly permanently but one classmate follows her home wanting the promise of her hometown of Christmas. Girl dug herself into that one making it look like this town was a perfect Christmas getaway but she was also really blind to the fact that this boy didn’t just come there cause of how she advertised the town, he came because he likes her but she’s never really thought about him until he puts on a pair of jeans and then suddenly she’s all about Arthur.

I did enjoy the part of the book where she had to make it up to him and fulfill her promise of all the things she’d advertised on the website (which somehow managed to keep falling into her lap). She also had some family storylines going on that I enjoyed.

But overall might have DNF’d had I not listened to the audiobook.