I know Unwrapping Romance
is all about romance especially that HEA promised us in romance novels but
every so often, I read a book that just deserves a little shout out of
excitement. With the holidays bearing down on us, I can’t think of a better
time to give off some joy for a wonderful, delightful, and cockle-warming
British chick-lit that comes as close to romance as you can get without a
Happily-Ever-After. THE GREAT CHRISTMAS KNIT-OFF by Alexandra Brown is
everything wonderful! Pure Holiday Joy.
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copy provided by publisher in exchange for an honest and unscripted review—thank
you.
Blurb for THE GREAT
CHRISTMAS KNIT-OFF:
Sybil has always taken
comfort in her knitting, creating beautiful garments stitch by stitch. But her
world suddenly unravels when her fiancé ditches her for her identical twin
sister and things go from bad to worse when an incident jeopardizes her job.
Hoping to escape her woes and forget that she'll be alone for Christmas, she visits her friend in Tindledale—a winter wonderland of quaint shops and snowy rooftops. Embraced by welcoming—if eccentric—locals wearing handmade knits reminds Sybil of her own creations and her unrealized ambitions of selling them. So when the vintage boutique asks her to create a knitting display for their front window, she's thrilled. The hot town doctor has even taken an interest in Sybil, hoping to heal her broken heart.
But just when Sybil thinks she's going to have her fairy-tale Christmas after all, an unexpected turn of events threaten to unspool her happily ever after.
Hoping to escape her woes and forget that she'll be alone for Christmas, she visits her friend in Tindledale—a winter wonderland of quaint shops and snowy rooftops. Embraced by welcoming—if eccentric—locals wearing handmade knits reminds Sybil of her own creations and her unrealized ambitions of selling them. So when the vintage boutique asks her to create a knitting display for their front window, she's thrilled. The hot town doctor has even taken an interest in Sybil, hoping to heal her broken heart.
But just when Sybil thinks she's going to have her fairy-tale Christmas after all, an unexpected turn of events threaten to unspool her happily ever after.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Life
couldn’t get much lower for Sybil. Her fiancĂ© leaves her at the altar amidst a
Star Wars themed wedding and runs off with her twin sister, and now there’s a
chance, a great chance she will be on the hook for a huge money error at work.
Really not wanting to face anything anymore, she packs up her little dog,
Basil, and heads to Tindledale, a truly quaint little English village that when
she steps off the train, she thinks she’s on a set for FROZEN. She’s eager to
see her best friend, Cher, who will certainly help her see to making sure her
life doesn’t get any more discombobulated but Cher is out of town, and the accommodations
at the Duck & Puddle Pub, which Cher and her chef husband are now running,
were highly lacking. With no other choice, she ventures to the Bed and
Breakfast on the other side of the village. There she meets the incorrigible, Lawrence
Rosenberg, host extraordinaire, and leader of the Tindledale Players. Lawrence
sets her on the right path to discovering more about herself, her life, her
desires, than she ever knew, and even encourages her to take a chance at love. Taking the road not
traveled was the last thing she ever expected when she began her journey to
Tindledale.
With
a cast of the most delightful, unexpected, funny, endearing, and simply lovely
characters, I would love to live in a place like Tindledale. I fell in love
with this book so fast it surprised me. Although, we are greeted with not one,
but two states of despair…first with Hettie, and the prospect of her losing her
precious House of Haberdashery in Tindledale, but then Sybil whose life is a
complete disaster…Alexandra Brown manages to makes us smile and even laugh.
I
was sick as a dog with the cold from hell while reading this but I couldn’t
have asked for a better escape into a warm, loving, and cozy read to make me
feel better and smile. Okay, it’s sweet, most definitely, but its also romantic comedy at its holiday
best. I can see this story being made into one of those wonderful feel good
holiday movies that you want to take out once a year and watch it yet again. I can
see reading this every holiday season for that feel good heartwarming
experience too. I’m not a knitter, and it doesn’t matter but I would taking up knitting
just to be invited to one of Syb’s and Hettie’s delightful natters…that seems to
be what a gossip session is called in England. Tindledale is the most welcoming
place on the planet, I think. Like I said, I’d love to live there.
I
highly recommend reading THE GREAT CHRISTMAS KNIT-OFF by Alexandra Brown if you’re
a fan of feel good, cozy holiday stories, funny clumsy kind of comedy, and I’ll
clue you in…Sybil has everything come together for her and even has a hottie town
doctor a little head over heels for her. Go ahead…take a trip to Tindledale and
when it’s over, you can imagine your own HEA for Sybil.
Happy
Reading Everyone!
THE
GREAT CHRISTMAS KNIT-OFF by Alexandra Brown, William Morrow, available now in
print and ebook formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobobooks.
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