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Title: One Snowy Week in SpringhollowAuthor: Lucy KnottFormat reviewed: EbookSource: NetgalleyPublisher: AriaPublication Date: 5th November 2020Rating: 4 Stars
When old friends return, sparks ignite this Christmas in Springhollow...
Tomboy Scarlett thought Devon would be her best friend forever. He was the only person in Springhollow who supported her ambitious artist dreams. But then one winter, Devon and his parents disappear without warning to start a new life in NYC and a devastated Scarlett is left alone to face her high-school bullies and overbearing mother.
Fast-forward ten years: Scarlett is playing it safe in her childhood village with a dull PA job and a wardrobe that passes her mother's old-fashioned standards. Meanwhile, Devon is a Hollywood heartthrob, starring in the latest superhero blockbuster. And he's finally coming home for Christmas...
Scarlett can't help blaming her former best friend for the way her life has turned out, but Devon's cheeky charm and gorgeous smile prove difficult to resist. Devon always did make her feel on top of the world, but Scarlett knows her heart isn't racing just because she has her friend back – is it mistletoe madness, or is she seeing Devon in a completely new light?
Scarlett hasn't taken a risk in years... but this Christmas of second chances could finally be her time to shine.
This is the story that everyone who has ever been ashamed of their inner or outer geekiness needs to read. It's about learning to love yourself, and that you really are good enough to aim for your dreams.
And as someone who will admit to having many geek like tendencies, I felt it so refreshing to read Scarlett and Devon's story. I was never sure if they would get together or not but I absolute loved all the flash backs to the trouble they got up to as children.
It's clear they both thought they were superheroes, and on more than one occasion attempted to fly, but when Devon is made to move to New York when they are 16, it leaves Scarlett in rather a bad place. She's never left Springhollow, and has hidden for 10 years all the parts of her that made her feel like herself.
Then Devon returns to Springhollow, on a press junket for his new film, for he is now the latest superhero, and meets adult Scarlett, and let's just say sparks fly - mainly of anger!
Scarlett's best friends Hope and Jess are also really into superheroes and had no idea of Scarlett's true love of them, let alone the true extent of her unrealised, abandoned ambitions.
Yes there is a romance at the heart of it, of the will they won't they sort -and I did really love Devon, both his younger version and the man he has become.
But it really is Scarlett's re-awakening that spoke to me the most. I could feel her pain, I could understand her mother issues really well, and kept willing her on, to make what seemed like to me the logical decisions.
It's an incredibly enjoyable book, that I'm glad I had the chance to read - and the descriptions of Gingerbread houses were exquisite. There is great creativity in the story, and I would happily read more books set in Springhollow, should they ever exist. It was a lovely setting.
Another great book from Lucy Knott, I can't wait to see what she comes up with next.
Thank you to Aria and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
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