Synopsis:
No one wants to spend Christmas Eve snowed-in at the airport—but will it spark an unexpected romance?
It’s Christmas Eve, and school teacher Nia West can’t wait to get to Jamaica for the sun and adventure she’s dreamed of all year long. So what if she’s traveling solo this year? A relaxing holiday alone on the beach sounds like a sweet escape from the usual family drama.
Family drama is something Andrew Beckman knows all too well. Ever since his ex-girlfriend started dating his brother, Andrew has buried himself in work at his veterinary practice. Now he’s on his way to an awkward family Christmas party with the happy couple, and all he wants is to put the season behind him as fast as possible.
When an unexpected blizzard grounds all flights, Nia and Andrew’s holiday plans are put on ice, and they’re stuck spending Christmas Eve at the airport. Soon the pair of travelers decide to make the best of it and team up to spread holiday cheer to the other stranded passengers. After all, just because their flight is cancelled doesn’t mean Christmas is. Now they’re about to discover that with the right person, home for the holidays can be anywhere—and life’s crossroads are the perfect place to begin a new story.
Review:
Let it Snow was an okay festive audiobook. I was hoping for more as the synopsis sounded very promising but it went on for far too long, I’m talking at least two hours too long. I listened at 2.5 speed after the midway point just to get it over with and even that took too long. This book would have been much better if it ended after Christmas in the airport. The conflict between Nia and Andrew was so pointless.
This book really tries to push a lot of morals, especially considering Nia pretended to identify as male so the cab driver couldn’t ask her why “a pretty girl like you is single”. I feel like enough people make jokes about this type of thing without it being used as a comedic comeback in books. It wasn’t funny in the slightest.
It felt like you were constantly being lectured and it took all of the fun away from the read. I get trying to have a positive message in your book, but make them more subtle than ‘you need to stop doing this it’s bad’.
The narration could have been better in my opinion. The child voices from the female narrator were grating and irritating. For some reason, these were way louder than anything else.
I love Christmas stories where people get stuck in the airport and have to plan a Christmas day there, I watched a film with this plot as a kid and loved it (I can’t remember what it’s called though). This was fun in this book for a while, I loved the parts where they were gathering supplies to surprise the kids for Christmas, but as I said at the start of this review, it was too long.
I’d love to give this book a higher rating but my need to speed through the end of the book and my annoyance with the put-on voice was just too much. The cover is very cute though.
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