Review: Fun!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2012
I have on and off relationship with holiday stories. Too often I feel that the story is just so sweet that it can hurt my teeth. I also too often feel that the authors are using holiday themes as some sort of deus ex machina to resolve the conflicts in the story. But I am so happy when I get the gem of the holiday story and I think this one was very well done. The settings are definitely holiday settings, but the author uses the holiday tales to develop the very human qualities, doubts, uncertainties in her characters. The story is short, but it is long enough to develop some depth in the characters and made their ending satisfactory for me.