Review: Cute holiday novella
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 27, 2013
**Originally written for Book Bliss book blog. I received this book in exchange for an unbiased and honest review**Review:  3 starsGeneral: While I enjoyed the book overall, it read almost backwards to me. The book opens and drew me in right away. Breena and Grim immediately had my attention and I loved both their interactions and internal reactions to one another. I thought the idea of something stealing Christmas decorations was adorable and a new take on the "scrooge" character in Archie. The world building was also well done. The past is always fun to read and I felt it was done very well.The plot itself was a cute idea. However for the first time I felt a novella was too long. The climax appeared to be far to early in the novella and it left me fairly uninterested to see how the book finished out in their quest. Also, the dialect in this book was over the top. For the majority of the dialogue I couldn't figure out what was going on because the "accent" seemed to overpower everything as well as. I'm a huge highland reader and I'm not certain if I've just never read in the 1300's before or if the dialect was off because many of the spelling and word substitutions were not comprehendible to me for some part of the book until I became used to it.Characters: Breena- Breena is a character I connected with immediately. I loved how real her emotions felt from her longing for Grim to her longing for her home in Ireland. I found her to be believable and wanted her to succeed both with Grim and her Christmas quest.Grim- Grim was a different highlander for me. He wasn't overly cocky and a romancer. Or so he said. I found him to be very romantic but liked that he wasn't cocky like so many highlander warrior's are written.