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Title: Magic Under The Mistletoe
Author: Lucy Coleman
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: Aria
Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Rating: 4 Stars
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Christmas and romance are in the air...
It's December 23rd and while everyone else is rushing home for the holidays, workaholic Leesa Oliver is dreading switching on her out-of-office for the festive season. And it seems her equally driven boss, Cary Anderson, isn't relishing spending Christmas at his family's country estate either.
So together, they draft an unexpected Christmas contract: They'll spend half of the holidays with each other's families, pretending to be a couple. Leesa knows the insufferably good-looking Cary will make her Christmas more bearable, but what happens after the last of the mince pies have been eaten...?
Leesa signed off on a sensible business agreement, but somewhere, amongst the fairy lights and carols something seems to have changed... It seems there might just be some magic under the mistletoe this Christmas!
It's December 23rd and while everyone else is rushing home for the holidays, workaholic Leesa Oliver is dreading switching on her out-of-office for the festive season. And it seems her equally driven boss, Cary Anderson, isn't relishing spending Christmas at his family's country estate either.
So together, they draft an unexpected Christmas contract: They'll spend half of the holidays with each other's families, pretending to be a couple. Leesa knows the insufferably good-looking Cary will make her Christmas more bearable, but what happens after the last of the mince pies have been eaten...?
Leesa signed off on a sensible business agreement, but somewhere, amongst the fairy lights and carols something seems to have changed... It seems there might just be some magic under the mistletoe this Christmas!
A unique take on the fake date trope.
Wow there is a lot of story in this book, there are so many threads, characters, storylines, with more developing the whole time, that by the time I'm trying to write this review, I can't work out what was early enough in the book I dare comment on.
Cary and Leesa start as colleagues and get to know each other a bit better on a long haul flight back from Sydney and then with some bad weather, Leesa ends up going to Cary's family home for the night.
Neither of them are particularly relishing their Christmas this year, Leesa it turns out for incredibly good reason.
Even as we got to know Cary better, I still couldn't quite gel with him, I can't put my finger on it. I liked him, I just didn't fall for him at all. I loved his grandma though, Cressida was wonderful. Actually I loved all of Cary's family more than Leesa's.
There are all manner of secrets and surprises to be uncovered as you turn the pages, its certainly a book that keeps you on your toes. Plenty going on in it, but equally really easy to follow.
At times I wanted to slam Leesa and Cary's heads together, at others I wondered if we learnt a bit too much about their working lives. I really felt for Leesa at times, and the rest I wasn't as sure. I suspect that had I connected to characters a bit more, I would have enjoyed the book even more, than I did. But that is more down to personal preference than anything particularly wrong with the book.
It is a really enjoyable story, and where Christmas is involved it does feel festive, especially the finale.
Thank you to Netgalley and Aria for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
Please do follow along with the other blogs on this tour
Wow there is a lot of story in this book, there are so many threads, characters, storylines, with more developing the whole time, that by the time I'm trying to write this review, I can't work out what was early enough in the book I dare comment on.
Cary and Leesa start as colleagues and get to know each other a bit better on a long haul flight back from Sydney and then with some bad weather, Leesa ends up going to Cary's family home for the night.
Neither of them are particularly relishing their Christmas this year, Leesa it turns out for incredibly good reason.
Even as we got to know Cary better, I still couldn't quite gel with him, I can't put my finger on it. I liked him, I just didn't fall for him at all. I loved his grandma though, Cressida was wonderful. Actually I loved all of Cary's family more than Leesa's.
There are all manner of secrets and surprises to be uncovered as you turn the pages, its certainly a book that keeps you on your toes. Plenty going on in it, but equally really easy to follow.
At times I wanted to slam Leesa and Cary's heads together, at others I wondered if we learnt a bit too much about their working lives. I really felt for Leesa at times, and the rest I wasn't as sure. I suspect that had I connected to characters a bit more, I would have enjoyed the book even more, than I did. But that is more down to personal preference than anything particularly wrong with the book.
It is a really enjoyable story, and where Christmas is involved it does feel festive, especially the finale.
Thank you to Netgalley and Aria for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
Please do follow along with the other blogs on this tour
Thank you, Rachel, for being on the tour... can't wait to tour with you in November. The countdown to Christmas has begun!
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