The Turner Family of Bluestar Island: Book 3
Publication Date: November 3, 2023
Twelve days before Christmas, the forecast calls for snow with a hundred percent chance for love as the owner of the Seaside Bookshop risks everything, including her heart.
Christmas returns to Bluestar Island in this heartwarming page-turner. While the small town’s holiday calendar is filled with festive events, the friendships of Bluestar’s residents are put to the test. Melinda Coleman owner of the Seaside Bookshop finds herself making a deal with the town curmudgeon that could cost her everything. While furniture maker Liam Turner is suddenly a full-time single father. He’s in over his head with an active three-year-old. It will take these two friends helping each other to keep their lives from imploding and in the process, they find the most precious gift of all—love.
Includes a holiday recipe for Santa’s Mitten cookies!
A Seaside Bookshop Christmas is a wholesome and heartwarming read by author Jennifer Faye. The prologue is set six months before Christmas, but the majority of the story is a countdown to Christmas. Each day, the small town had another holiday activity to bring the community together. Some are traditional, but others are brand new.
But all was not rosy throughout. Melinda is the owner of the bookshop, but for how much longer? Liam, a single dad with an adorable three-year-old, is her friend, but could he be more? The bookshop was often the backdrop, but other small businesses were showcased as well. There is gossip, some angst along with push and pull, heartbreaking moments, a Scrooge-like curmudgeon, a play on The Gift of the Magi, tight times, and books galore.
Several storylines weave their way into the main arc, and Melinda is always at the center of each one. She always looks for the silver lining and loves to help others, which doesn’t always go as planned. There are unexpected twists and turns in the story, but in the end, goodness does win out. The town is brought together in an unusual way, and there’s much to be happy about and look forward to. Of course, there’s also the requisite happily ever after. The epilogue gave some closure, and it was interesting to find links at the end of the story to two bonuses, which definitely gave better closure. I did think it strange that I had to download each separately in order to continue reading, but the bonuses definitely gave better closure to the book and tied up loose ends.
Ms. Faye is an author whose books I’ve enjoyed, and while I’ve been to Bluestar Island previously, I’ve only read a few of the books set there.
A Seaside Bookshop Christmas immerses us in holiday happenings on this small island and filled me with the holiday spirit I need to be infused with at this time of year!
Award-winning author, Jennifer Faye pens fun, heartwarming contemporary romances. With more than a million books sold, she is internationally published with books translated into more than a dozen languages and her work has been optioned for film. She is a two-time winner of the RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award, the CataRomance Reviewers’ Choice Award, named a TOP PICK author, and been nominated for numerous other awards. Now living her dream, she resides with her very patient husband and two spoiled cats. When she’s not plotting out her next romance, you can find her curled up with a mug of tea and a book.
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Thank you so much for hosting my book! Thrilled you enjoyed it!!!
Glad you liked the review. I look forward to returning to Bluestar Island.