Another Brit wrote a winter book
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But it got marketed as holiday
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And it wasn’t.
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And I was very disappointed.
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If I haven’t stated it clearly enough, I love British authors and British settings for books. I do, I really do! But read my rant from the Jenny Bayliss book and this makes sense.
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The British holiday romance authors tend to be a bit more muted in the holiday joy. Of course, America goes over the top so that bias of mine is creeping out for sure! But it just makes for a lot of winter romances tackling really deep issues coming out before Christmas and all of us thinking it’s a Christmas book and it’s not!
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So with that in mind, this book was a marketed as winter book with snow on the cover and it doesn’t even take place during the winter?
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It was cute don’t get me wrong, it was also so deep. Natalie is a young widow, she lost her husband 2 years ago and still is in the throes of grief. She’s in the cottage they bought together and it was very much his dream. She lost friends. She has her routine and she sticks with it to protect herself.
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Twice a week, she goes to the train station for a coffee and then plays on the piano there.
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And then someone starts leaving music in the piano bench. Her favorite music. Music nobody but her husband would know about.
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Other thoughts:
It was okay, another 3 star indifference review for me. I liked a lot of the parts but overall it felt so long and I couldn’t get past the feeling of being duped by the cover into thinking this was full of holiday cheer.
This copy was sent to me by the publisher @atriabooks
