I’d planned to do this post months in advance and I can’t even begin to tell you how difficult it has been to find a good number of actually decent festive audiobooks. I’m not sure if I haven’t been looking in the right place, but I’ve mostly been looking at the Audible Plus catalogue so it could be my own fault.
I thought I’d have more than two audiobooks to talk about as I’ve listened to a ton of them recently, but I’m quite harsh when it comes to audiobooks.
Once Upon A Christmas Carol by Karen Schaler
This was a super recent listen and it’s the only one that I actually quite liked. It has music, which doesn’t work too well when you listen at more than 1.2x speed, but I didn’t mind slowing it down for those sections.
I do think this would have benefitted from being longer as the romance felt a bit rushed. However, if you love childhood friends to lovers, you’ll love this.
Synopsis: Rachel Rinehart’s Christmas season is on the brink of disaster when her record label suddenly drops her, threatening to end her music career. Then she receives a mysterious Christmas card, and everything starts to change….
Inside the card are lyrics to a classic Christmas carol urging her to return home to Crystal Falls, the snowy mountain town she left behind 15 years ago.
Once she arrives in Crystal Falls, a stroke of fate brings her face-to-face with her first love, Matt Meyers, who’s now a devoted single dad. Rachel continues to receive mysterious cards filled with Christmas carol lyrics and clues she must follow—all leading her back to Matt. Is it the work of a hometown matchmaker, or could it be Christmas magic? And will the music and majesty of the season help Rachel discover where she truly belongs?
Christmas at Frozen Falls by Kiley Dunbar
So, this definitely isn’t my favourite, however, it is pretty decent. I listened to this a couple of years ago now (I got sent an audio ARC) and I wasn’t really into audiobooks then, so I think I would like it a little more now. I’ve figured out that I need to listen at quite a high speed because I have ADHD and I lose focus very quickly.
This is set in Lapland so it’s very festive. It’s also at a hotel and apparently, this is a setting that I love.
I wasn’t completely sold on the romance element but you may love it. Everyone’s different after all.
Synopsis: Sylvie Magnusson is going to be lonely this Christmas. Instead of jetting off for her honeymoon, she’s freezing at home in Cheshire. Guess that’s what happens when your fiancé dumps you a week before your wedding…
Sylvie’s best friend, Nari, plans a trip to see the Northern Lights and get Sylvie’s mojo back. But as their Lapland getaway approaches, Sylvie realises that Frozen Falls is the hometown of Stellan Virtanen, her dreamy Finnish ex-boyfriend, the one that got away.
When they meet, Stellan’s still gorgeous – and her heart is warmed when he shows her the romantic delights of Lapland (as well as some adorable Husky puppies). But when she returns to England, can she really leave Stellan behind? Or will she find that her heart belongs in the frozen North?
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