This review is going to take a look at Nancy Thayer’s latest Christmas novel, Let It Snow. This book was released on October 15, 2019, so it’s available for all of you looking for more holiday reads as we get closer to Christmas! I received an eARC of this title from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Let It Snow is set on the lovely island of Nantucket, and follows shopkeeper Christina Antonioni, and her fellow three shopkeeper friends, and the family of their landlord–the Bittlesmans. Christina is a likable thirty year old woman who has recently lost both of her parents. She runs a toy store on the wharf in a shed with heat provided by an electric heater.
Every day for lunch she meets with the other wharf shopkeepers for lunch. Oscar Bittlesman has sent a letter to them all that he will be increasing their rent by 10%, a sum that will put them all out of business.
In time, Christina meets Wink, Oscar’s granddaughter, and puts her to work in her shop. She also meets Wink’s handsome uncle, Andy. Through the book Christina spends a lot of time with Wink and Andy, and falls for Andy. It’s a cute story and it spends time showing what small town life on the island is like.
Much of the story is spent trying to get Oscar to realize what the wharf stores are like so he won’t raise the rent. But honestly, the rent problem doesn’t seem to be as realistic of a problem to me as the problems in the book from my review earlier this week. By the end of the book Christina is engaged to Andy and would no longer have the financial issues if Oscar raised the rent. Her fellow shopkeepers would have the problem, but because they aren’t the main characters the consequences of the stores closing is glossed over.
Also, I had a hard time believing some things. Yes, she lives on a small island, but she’s also thirty. I don’t think that she was written like a thirty-year-old. Other than finding a partner, and having children her life is completely settled.
I enjoyed the romantic plot of Christina and Andy, and really enjoyed the storyline between Christina and Wink. I think readers looking for a light holiday romance would enjoy this.
Happy reading 🙂
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