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Title: Miracle On Christmas StreetAuthor: Annie O'NeilFormat reviewed: EbookSource: NetgalleyPublisher: OrionPublication Date: 17th September 2020 Rating: 5 Stars
Behind every door is a festive wish...
When Jess Green arrives at her new home on Christmas Street, she quickly realises that this will be a December to remember! After the disaster of last year, she was hoping to curl up and avoid the festivities - but her new neighbours have other ideas...
Together, they're creating something extraordinary: a real-life advent calendar. As each house opens its door for wreath-making, gingerbread icing or carol singing, Jess finds herself swept up in the holiday cheer. Every house, that is, except for No. 24, home to the cantakerous Mr Winters.
But when disaster strikes, can Jess pull off a festive miracle - and make her own Christmas wish come true?
It's enough to make you believe in Christmas magic.
From the first chapter complete with a snowball fight kicking off a living advent calendar and Jess moving day to Christmas street i was enchanted.
With each chapter being a new day, we get to know the residents of this lovely community and a different themed Christmas activity each day.
And for a few key residents we get to know them very well, and just how the Christmas season affects them. But it was the story of Mr Winters, the street's scrooge that really touched me, especially the reason why he he no longer speaks to his son, and has never met his grandson. Seeing how Jess tried to connect to him, when none of the other neighbours could see beneath his gruff exterior, was really heart warming.
Jess is trying to regroup after a year out of teaching, after the "cheese sandwich incident" which is hinted at many times, before we discover the full details and see just how poorly she has been treated in her old job.
There is just so much to love with this book, and in some respects you could probably read it in the month of December a chapter a day, to discover the happenings on Christmas Street and the real life advent calendar in real time, but I much prefer turning page after page, and just loving every second of this story.
I could easily imagine this a Hallmark Movie, and would love to see it on a screen, it has everything you could want in a Christmas book, and its very well written and just a joy to read.
Easily one of the most festive and enjoyable Christmas books that I have read this year, and I still can't believe that I've never read this author before, which is something I clearly need to fix in the future.
Thank you to Netgalley and Orion for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
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