D': lt'es ist vorbei, Das Buch ist vorbei. Es ist zu Ende. Hat mein Bücherregal vielleicht sowas wie nen Eingang nach Narnia, nur dass in einem geheimen Fach dieses Buch als unendliche Geschichte liegt Bitte Jepp, ich heule und mein Herz tut weh und dieser Hangover wird mich mein ganzes Leben lang verfolgen.
Aua. Das Buch ist eine süße Weihnachts/Wintergeschichte, in der man tatsächlich ein wenig in Weihnachtsstimmung kommt,
Dazu trägt vor allem diese fantastische Familie bei, Ich mochte jeden einzelnen Charakter und möchte unbedingt noch mehr von den O'Neils lesen,
Sarah Morgan beschreibt die Landschaft, Gerüche und Eindrücke sehr bildlich und man würde am liebsten sofort einen Urlaub in dem Resort amp Spa der ONeils buchen.
Also ich mochte ja den Schreibstil und vor allem mochte ich die Familie O'Neill,
Was ich nicht mochte war Kayla, Jackson und deren Beziehung,
In vielen Situationen fand ich ihn viel zu drängend und er hat ihr Nein nicht akzeptiert, Natürlich nur zu ihrem eigenen Besten, ist klar,
Und diese ganze seelische Veränderung in nur einer Woche stattfinden zu lassen hat sich für mich auch einfach nicht echt angefühlt, Warum konnte man da nicht etwas mehr Zeit einbauen This is Sarah Morgan's first single title romance, and my first Sarah Morgan, I was underwhelmed. I had a hard time warming up to the characters, especially Kayla, who is a workaholic ad executive who hates Christmas, She's a Brit working in Manhattan, but welcomes the chance to spend a week in Vermont over Christmas working on a new account for the Snow Crystal Spa and Resort, a struggling family business run by Jackson O'Neil, his brother a competive skier recovering from a careerending injury, his mother grieving the loss of her husband, his feisty grandmother and his cantankerous, changeaverse grandfather.
Kayla mistakenly thinks that Vermont is somehow less "Christmassy" than Manhattan, and she'll be able to avoid the trappings of the holiday she hates most, but of course that isn't true: Sarah Morgan's fantasy Vermont is a Hollywood simulacrum of the small town, White Christmas/Holiday Inn/It's a Wonderful Life idyll and as a bornandbred Vermonter ofyears, I did a lot of eye rolling and rude snorting as I read.
Morgan spent a lot of time hinting broadly and unsubtly about Kayla's tortured past and why she hates Christmas, but when the big secret was finally revealed, I was like, "Really I mean, that sucks and all, but pull up your big girl panties and get over it.
" Jackson pursues Kayla throughout the book, but I never really understood what he saw in her, She was so emotionally stunted and cold, and his allconsuming attraction seemed to come out of nowhere and had a real InstaLove feel to it, Kayla spends the whole book pushing Jackson away and refusing to connect with people so that she won't get hurt, and in the end when she changes her mind, it feels sudden and also unsustainable.
I mean, it's all well and good for her to decide to open up and let someone into her life, but I am totally unconvinced that she has the skills to have a successful relationship after a lifetime of shutting people out, which doesn't bode well for the HAE.
There were a lot of supporting characters who I suspect are probably sequel bait, but I'm not sure I care enough to revisit the O'Neil clan in future books.
This was a wonderful read, it really was, It made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside and the ending put a great big smile on my face,
The romance grows in a believable way sometimes love at first sight does exist, It just has to be done right, And Sarah Morgan does it right in this book,
I want so badly to be in a cabin in the middle of nowhere with a hot tub on the deck, I don't care about the location or whether there's snow, but take me now! I want to sit in that hot tub and stare at the night sky, . . Bliss.
These holiday romances are going to cost me a lot of money, After each one I've spent hours browsing such cabins,
I will definitely read on in this series, the start was wonderful, Don't let the fact that it's a festive themed read books aren't just for Christmas! Mais coup de cœur en fait Jai commencé ce livre qui mavait été offert en achetant deux autres lycées de poche, ça criait noël et je suis dans ma période romans de noël, alors je me suis dit go, mais honnêtement, javais pas tellement dattentes.
BAH JAI ADORÉ. Cest objectivement un peu lent, mais lambiance les personnages OMG je vais me jeter sur les autres romans de lautrice qui parlent de la famille ONeil, en espérant y accrocher tout autant When I started reading this book I got the biggest reading slump.
I thought I was gonna hate it but the more I read the more I fell in love with the characters, The perfect Christmas book.
P. S. Sarah Morgan needs to forget the word CHEMISTRY, In typical mefashion, I got like, . .Christmasthemed books from the library with enthusiastic, brighteyed plans to burn through them all by Christmas New Year's at the latest, I'm down to two left after finishing this one, I have to say, I wasn't as huge of a fan of Sleigh Bells in the Snow as I was Moonlight over Manhattan, I didn't plan on setting the bar high since I get these are cheapy, paperback, Hallmarkesque type books which I typically don't go for, but it's a weird Christmas nostalgia because of my Mom's love of Christmas Hallmark movies.
BUT I was pleasantly surprised by Moonlight over Manhattan, I guess I was a little bummed when this one by the same author had a heavier Harlequin feel to it, It was a premise solidly laid on "corporate" meets "sexy lumberjack" with a heavy sprinkling of the words "chemistry" and "lust" throughout, The first book I read by Sarah Morgan definitely felt like it fleshed out the characters a smidge more and built on more of a slow burn/mutual respect dynamic.
More my preference.
If I had read this first instead of Sarah Morgan's other book, I probably wouldn't have been bummed out by it, but it was such a startling difference I felt a bit let down.
No biggy. It was still a pretty fun and fast fluff read, It was an okay Christmas theme that I probably won't read again, but fine as a one time deal,
I'd rate this book an R for swearing and sexual scenes, Yes, I read a Christmas book in June, And it is a very Christmasy book,
Okay, problems first besides this atrocious coverJackson is a manly outdoorsy man, not some squirrelly manchild with scruff, The biggest problem is that Kayla has been in stasis for way, way too long, I get family trauma and painful memories, but she'sand nobody stays exactly the same for that long since early teens, People are big piles of inconsistency, even if they aren't actively changing all the time, and that should be enough to give her a broader base of life experiencea decade and more of life experience at that.
Not to mention that this time includes adolescence as well as adulthood and that kind of change is practically designed to invite new experience to paper over trauma, Plus,
Smaller problems are the really short timeline a single week and Kayla's rather desperate clinging to a way of life that obviously provides her no joy.
Both of those are more manageable, though, and Sarah Morgan manages to put a wonderful story together well enough to get past these small problems, A week is all it took for me to fall that much in love, so it's not like I can say it's impossible, And the emotional journey in that week was strong enough and the trust and communication built up well enough that it was only an intellectual reluctance to believe rather than an unearned or unrealistic love story.
Okay. So the good stuff. Jackson is a dream come true and the O'Niels as a family are so vibrant that the immersion here was near complete, They operated the way I expected a loving family to do despite differences of opinion, approach, viewpoint, or stage of lifeand they were all different and distinct so much so that I had no trouble tracking theor so near family members and their various motivations, emotional states, or activities throughout.
Jackson's love for his family is a large part of what makes him so attractive, particularly as Morgan makes it clear that this is a bonedeep part of him that comes through in all he does.
There's just something about a strong, capable, nurturing man that is incredibly attractive even before you get to anything more, . . physical.
So yeah, the O'Niels make this book and Jackson is a fantastic lead, I can't wait to read the rest of the series as they also involve the family, Welldone.
A note about Steamy: There are three or four explicit scenes and they're moderately long a
page or two, That's a bit on the highside for me, but not really getting close to too much, I got really tired of anthropomorphized "chemistry" as a shortcut Morgan overuses when describing, well, lust mainly, .
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