Book Review - Snow Days With You by Leonie Mack

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Title: Snow Days With You

Author: Leonie Mack

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Boldwood Books

Publication Date: 20th October 2023

Rating: 5 Stars

When Luna Rowntree gets an unexpected and life-changing legacy from a man she’s never met, she’s determined to find out why – even if it is Christmas Day and her family are expecting her.

So, with only her mother’s ashes for company – it’s a long story, but Luna knows her mother would have wanted to come on the adventure too – Luna sets off in her trusty Astra to the skiing resort in Chamonix, where her mysterious benefactor had lived.

But her little car isn’t designed for driving through snow-covered mountains, and when she runs out of fuel heart-breakingly close to Chamonix, Luna is relieved to be saved by her very own knight-in-shining armour. Well, knight in mountain rescue uniform anyway.

Yannick is charmed if baffled by Luna’s mission, and before he knows it, he has agreed to help. But Yannick has his own secrets calling him from the mountains, and his own reasons to run away. As he helps Luna understand her past he realises he has to face his as well if he’s ever going to risk opening his heart to love.

Curl up with Leonie Mack’s new winter romance. Perfect for fans of Mandy Baggot, Jo Thomas and Sarah Morgan.

Give me a minute for my heart rate to return to normal, for a fair bit of this book is filled with so much scary drama, that I was totally caught up and wouldn't have been able to put the book down for anything. 

After all this is a book featuring a mountain rescue team, in Chamonix, so some drama is potentially to be expected.

And boy does it deliver not only on that front, but also on an amazing setting, and with a story that has some many layers to uncover and discover. 

I feel as though there is a new element or depth to Leonie Mack's writing in this book, which has made it even more spectacular and gripping than her previous books (which I also loved). 

There is the mystery of just why Luna was left some money,  why it seems as though her mother had lived in Chamonix for a bit, despite never mentioning it to Luna, and then Yannick is also hiding things too and struggling to move on with his own life. 

Despite the mention of Christmas Day in the blurb, and the fact the book has been released in peak festive reading season - this isn't to my surprise in any way shape or form a Christmas book - it starts on Christmas day, but the story is set predominately in the first few months of the New Year, and is a winter romance, rather than a festive one.  Which took me by surprise. 

And wow mountain rescuers are hot! And learning about the dangers of the mountain was fascinating, as was seeing Luna's first attempts at skiing and climbing. 

I was hooked on everything to do with this book, and couldn't devour it fast enough.  It's wonderful and I absolutely adored Luna and Yannick and their story. 

Thank you to Boldwood Books and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.