*I was given a copy of The Christmas Season in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to Hera Books and Ally Sinclair for my copy of the book*
Synopsis:
You are cordially invited to your Happy Ever After…
Emma Love is a matchmaker who believes in old fashioned courtship, over swiping left or right. She’s inspired by Jane Austen, Bridgerton and a thousand and one perfect romance stories, where matches were made at elegant soirees and not by sliding into your intended’s DMs.
This year, Emma is inviting you to a very special social season, where a hopeful singleton might find their own Mr Darcy waiting under the mistletoe. At a series of glamorous, festive, and, most importantly, romantic events, Emma is making it her mission to find love for everyone this Christmas Season.
How will she fare trying to find perfect matches for the Price twins, both too busy trying to outdo the other to ever look for love? Can she encourage the sexy Season rake, Theo, to change his ways? And what of Hope Lucas, who Emma has failed to match before, but who still has faith that Mr Right is out there?
And with Emma so focused on finding everybody else’s happy ever after, is she at risk of letting her own perfect match slip away?
Welcome to the Christmas Season.
Review:
I really loved the concept of The Christmas Season, it reminded me a lot of the Twelve Dates of Christmas but with a regency twist. The events were very festive and they all sounded pretty fun. I don’t know how good they’d be to find your perfect match but apparently, it has a 100% success rate which isn’t completely ridiculous *sarcasm*. Especially considering they apparently don’t ask for your sexual preference on the application. I only know this because Emma (our matchmaker) talks about there being something between Connie and Jon. Well there wasn’t because of one glaring fact, she’s a lesbian. There is no way you’d have such a high success rate without knowing whether you’ve put one queer person in a room full of straight people.
At the very start of the book Emma says someone is “Clearly of excellent breeding” this almost made me want to put it down. What a gross (and weird) thing to say.
A 27 year old woman throwing a hissy fit because her dad has a new partner after being alone for 12-15 years is just plain embarrassing (I’m not sure on the number because the book used both). I’m being completely honest when I say I got secondhand embarrassment about this situation. This is terribly nitpicky though.
There was only one couple I was actually interested in and that was because of the situation they found themselves in. It seemed like they had good chemistry and they were one of the only convincing matches.
The Christmas Season has four different POVs, which I think is far too many. Especially for a cutesy little festive romance. I found I didn’t care about some characters as much so their chapters were a little difficult to get through. However, I will say chapters from Theo’s perspective would have been interesting.
I feel like I haven’t said many positive things about this book, but genuinely it was pretty decent. I liked the concept and it was very festive.
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