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A Lot Like Christmas by Jennifer Snow – a Review

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A Lot Like Christmas by Jennifer Snow – a Review

 

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This Christmas season, love comes where you least expect it. 

For Jessica Connolly, there is no better place than her coastal hometown of Blue Moon Bay. She has a wonderful family, supportive best friends, and a successful bakery on Main Street. Unfortunately, every time she designs one of her ex-boyfriends’ wedding cakes, she’s reminded just how unlucky she is with love…and that she’s a good luck charm for men to find their happily ever after. With someone else. The minute they break up.  So she’s decided to be done with love.

Dr. Mitch Jameson is more comfortable traveling the world with Doctors Without Borders than staying in one place. He just needs to survive the holidays in his small hometown before he can leave again. The beautiful, intriguing bakery owner with an aversion to dating might be just who he needs to occupy his restless heart.

From sipping hot chocolates at the local festival of lights to early morning dessert deliveries, Jessica and Mitch rediscover the spirit of the holidays. But when the 25 days of Christmas are over, will their romance be over, too?

 Each book in the Blue Moon Bay series is STANDALONE: 
* A Lot Like Love
* A Lot Like Christmas

 

 

Review:

A Lot Like Christmas by Jennifer Snow is the 2nd book in her Blue Moon Bay series. A Christmas story in September! But if you read it, you could easily swap it for any season. I can see me picking this book up again and again, it has fun, it has humour and it has heartbreak (like any good romance) and it has a couple of intimate moments (might want to read those at home) ? 

* A Lot Like Christmas  is sweet small-town romance with a happy ending. However, the story includes elements  that might not be suitable for all readers. Depression, anxiety, and symptoms of PTSD appear in the novel, and a child’s illness and death are relayed through a character’s backstory. Readers who may be sensitive to these elements, please take note.*

Poor Jessica, I felt so sorry for her! Couldn’t imagine how she must have felt to design a cake for a man she could have married! It feels like a curse, she meets the man of her dreams…. It doesn’t work out…. He then meets and marries someone else! That happens a few times!! I’d call it a curse! So although she doesn’t begrudge them, it’s enough to make Jessica swear off love. 

Mitch isn’t looking for long term, he’s not looking to stay long at all! Being a doctor is all he’s wanted to do, fulfilling his dream of being a Doctor without borders has been exhausting but rewarding. Coming home before jetting to another place that needs him, Mitch needs a little quiet time then he’s gone, back to saving the world…..

When Mitch and Jessica meet, sparks of interest between both the couple is evident. And when Mitch tells her it’s only for a few weeks, Jessica assures him that’s fine with her. Both fight their feelings for one another, but I hope the feeling Jessica was invested a lot more than Mitch, yes they both were having fun, but I truly believed Mitch would walk away!! 

There is a part in the book I was totally going to hit the guy with a cake!! And then scream at Jessica to not let him get away!! 

I’ve not read the previous book, and it’s not necessary either, but I’ve added it to my (never ending) TBR (To Be Read) list. It’s written really well, and it captures the charm of the little town of Blue Moon Bay (which if I could I’d love to climb into the pages and explore the coastline) characters come to life as you witness Jessica’s love of Christmas and family. Shake your head at Mitch’s decisions not to have ties, and then cry into your tissue as secrets, and decisions will pull this couple apart!! 

So is it just a Christmas romance? Is it just Mitch wasting time until his next adventure calls? Or will Jessica be able to prove that you can have just as much adventure in a small town as you can anywhere else? Or will she have to bake a fourth cake? 

Reviewed by Julie

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A Lot Like Love by Jennifer Snow – a Review

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A Lot Like Love by Jennifer Snow – a Review

 

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They have different ideas about the fate of an old inn…until it brings them together.

When Sarah Lewis inherits a run-down B&B from her late grandmother in coastal Blue Moon Bay, the logical thing to do is sell it and focus on her life in L.A. But when she learns that interested buyers will only tear it down in its current state, she feels a sense of obligation to her grandmother to get it back to the landmark tourist destination it once was…even if that means hiring the best contractor for the job, who happens to be her old high school crush.

Wes Sharrun’s life has continued to unravel since the death of his wife three years before. Now with a struggling construction company and a nine-year-old daughter, he sees the B&B as an opportunity to get back on his feet. Unfortunately, despite trying to keep his distance, his daughter has taken a liking to Sarah, and his own feelings are tough to deny.

As they spend more time together painting, exploring a forgotten treasure trove of wine in a basement cellar, and arguing over balcony placement, the more the spark between them ignites. But will saving the B&B be enough to convince them both to take a second chance at love?

 

Review:

A Lot Like Love by Jennifer Snow reminds me a lot of the many Hallmark movies I’ve watched over this past year.  It was very sweet, charming and endearing.  It had a little bit of everything in it; past issues that need to be dealt with, trying to move on after the death of your spouse, old family history coming to the surface thanks to the discovery of an old journal, and finding love with the one you were always meant to be with.  This is the journey of Sarah and Wes and I really enjoyed reading this one.  Oh and lets not forget the chemistry between these two that just keeps getting hotter and hotter as the story goes on.

I really like both Wes and Sarah from the very beginning. It’s obvious they have history that was never fully settled or dealt with, and thus the sparks spring forth between them right away.  Only for Wes he’s very hesitant because he has a nine year old daughter and he’s worried about her welfare and doesn’t want her heart broken again.  Never in his wildest dreams would he have thought his daughter would see through him and know he has feelings for Sarah and that she’s completely okay with it.  Marissa, Wes’ daughter actually becomes somewhat of a matchmaker and tells her dad he needs to admit his feelings for Sarah and ask her out.  She even goes so far as to tell him she’d be cool with Sarah as her stepmom.  The bond/friendship between Sarah and Marissa is quick to form and just blossoms throughout the story. You can see how the 3 of them make a nice little family and do belong together.  Thankfully it’s Marissa who helps her dad fix the mess he makes between him and Sarah and in the end they do find their happy every after. 

As I said earlier A Lot Like Love is a charming and endearing story between Wes and Sarah. It’s the type of story that you can’t help but keep reading until the end because you need to know what happens next.  It’s the perfect book to spend a lazy Sunday with and forget about the outside world for just a little bit. 

Until next time, happy reading everyone!

Reviewed by Marcie

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