It wouldn't be the holiday season without a new Christmas romance from Samantha Chase! THE CHRISTMAS PLAN is out now and it's the perfect way to kickstart your holiday reading!
About THE CHRISTMAS PLAN
If only life was a cheesy holiday movie…
Unfortunately for Aspen Harris, her life doesn’t even come close.
Finding herself unemployed just before the holidays, she has no choice but to move back home and in her parents’ house. And that means leaving behind her best friend Gabriel and all her dreams of someday owning her own chocolate shop. So when Gabe suggests she come to Silver Bell Falls to spend the holidays with his family, it seems like the perfect distraction.
What’s so great about holiday movies?
Don’t people realize that living in an actual Christmas town is anything but magical?
Every year, Gabriel Andrews goes home to Silver Bell Falls to help his father run the family Christmas tree lot. When Aspen tells him she has to move to the other side of the country after losing her job, he suggests she come home with him for the holidays. It’s the perfect way to spend as much time together as possible before a whole country separates them.
But this is Silver Bell Falls at Christmas time…between a mother with matchmaking tendencies, tight living quarters and far too much chocolate, it doesn’t take very long for life to start imitating art.
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Review:
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
The Christmas Plan is the last book in the Silver Bell Falls series by Samantha Chase. I haven't read any of the other books, but there was no need since this is a stand-alone novel.
The story follows Aspen, a Chocolatier. who was recently fired and is now trying to figure out what to do next in life and Gabriel, a not so successful filmmaker who goes every year to his hometown to help with the family business (his family sells Christmas trees). Aspen is a little lost and is in a slump, so Gabe suggests that she should go with him to Silver Bell Falls to cheer her up a bit and things start to get hot and heavy between them. How that happens is for you to find out when you read the book.
Friends to lovers is one of my favorite genres and in this case, I felt like our characters were better off as friends. There was something off about them as a couple. The fact that Gabe kept saying "you are my best friend" and wasn't very willing to admit to himself that he wanted something more with Aspen for most of the book didn't help their case either. He was very clueless and I wanted to hit him in frustration.
I liked Aspen as a character though. She didn't settle for less in any aspect of her life and I truly enjoyed that. I was also happy to see her been successful in Silver Bell Falls. To me, Gabe is still the little lost lamb and I didn't get the feeling that he had a clear direction in life as Aspen did by the end of the book. I was not a big Gabe fan, but that didn't prevent me from not liking the rest of the book. The story had the Christmas-y feeling I expected it to have and the small-town setting also worked.
Overall, I feel like 3.5 stars is a fair rating for the book in my opinion. I was not a fan of the friction between Gabe and Aspen because it caused me some awkwardness and it made the flow of the book feel a little unnatural. Some aspects as mentioned above saved the novel from becoming a disaster for me. I would recommend it to the fans of the series, but I am a little reluctant on recommending it to someone new.
About SAMANTHA CHASE
Samantha Chase is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller of contemporary romance. She released her debut novel in 2011 and currently has more than forty titles under her belt! When she’s not working on a new story, she spends her time reading romances, playing way too many games of Scrabble or Solitaire on Facebook, wearing a tiara while playing with her sassy pug Maylene…oh, and spending time with her husband of 25 years and their two sons in North Carolina.
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