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Christmas in the Scottish Highlands by Donna Ashcroft
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bookshelves: arcs, contemporary-women-s-fic, netgalley, 2021
Read 2 times. Last read September 24, 2021 to September 25, 2021.

**Happy Publication Day**

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4 Stars

Bella lives in a picturesque Scottish village and works as a kindergarten teacher. She’s the heart of the village, always helping someone, even if it means she has to spread herself thin. Being alone on Christmas doesn’t sound that good, but Bella is pretty much used to it.

When she crashes into an elderly lady, Edina, who lives in the castle nearby, and injures her foot, Bella offers to stay and help her. Bella realizes how lonely Edina feels and tries to bring cheer to her life and the castle.

Enters, Jack, Edina’s grandson, a hotshot lawyer in London. He seems arrogant, judgmental, and pessimistic about most things in life. Yet, Bella and Jack work together on Bella’s projects and learn that there’s more to the other person than first impressions.

The Christmas Spirit is all around them, and attraction blooms between the lead couple. But with both of them having a few past issues they don’t want to deal with, will there be a future with happy ever after?

This is a sweet, cute, cozy, and heartwarming Christmas romance with likable characters. The best part about such books is that the side characters would be endearing and lovable. This book is no exception. Be it Edina, Tavish, Kenzy, Logan, or the little munchkins from Bella’s class, everyone has a personality and potential for a short story or a novella of their own.

Christmas in the Scottish Highlands has more than one couple finding love, and I enjoyed their stories equally. The writing flows, nice, warm and familiar with descriptions of the setting and easy conversation between the characters.

The main reason I pick small town/ village-based romances is the familiarity of the setting and the assurance of the ending. We know how the book will end, and that’s the kind of comfort I need at times. It’s much like eating a slice of favorite cake (the book has a good number of them too) and enjoying its taste as always.

The characters have their flaws, and the writer keeps things believable most of the time. Since the book is just 200+ pages, nothing gets dragged beyond the breaking point.

To sum up, Christmas in the Scottish Highlands is much like eating your favorite chocolate cake and sipping hot chocolate on autumn noon.

Thank you, NetGalley and Bookouture, for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.

#ChristmasintheScottishHighlands #NetGalley

*****

P.S: It’s not naan bread. It is naan; no suffix needed. Calling it naan bread is like saying bun bread or pizza bread.
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Reading Progress

Finished Reading
September 21, 2021 – Shelved as: arcs
September 21, 2021 – Shelved as: contemporary-women-s-fic
September 21, 2021 – Shelved as: netgalley
September 21, 2021 – Shelved as: 2021
September 24, 2021 – Started Reading
September 25, 2021 – Finished Reading
September 16, 2024 – Shelved

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message 1: by Rosh (new)

Rosh Sounds like a lovely and relaxing read! Good you enjoyed this one; my resistance is stronger when it comes to chicklit. :D
Your postscript reminded me of "chai tea"! :D :D


Lady Clementina ffinch-ffarowmore Sounds a cute read.
Agree on naan bread, always annoys me a little. And chai tea too as Rosh mentioned.


Srivalli Rekha RoshReviews wrote: "Sounds like a lovely and relaxing read! Good you enjoyed this one; my resistance is stronger when it comes to chicklit. :D
Your postscript reminded me of "chai tea"! :D :D"


Haha yeah... you don't pick them as often as I do. Lucky that this was short and good. :D

Ikr! It annoys me every time. What's chai tea even!!


Srivalli Rekha Lady Clementina wrote: "Sounds a cute read.
Agree on naan bread, always annoys me a little. And chai tea too as Rosh mentioned."


Yep, it was cute and sweet. :)

Same with me. 😁


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