Christmas Carol

By Jordan Marie

Growing up in foster care, baseball player Cyrus Martinez hated everything about Christmas. More so this year when his dream team sends him back to the minor leagues, in a town no one has heard of.

Christmas Carol Kringle –yes, that is her name—runs a catering business and loves the holiday season. This unlikely couple meets when Cyrus’ car is blocked by Carol’s humongous dog aptly named Abominable, in the only city in America which celebrates the Christmas season all year round, Mistletoe, Montana.       

Christmas Carol by Jordan Marie is your typical feel-good Christmas story. Add in a cameo from one of Marie’s most loved characters, the indomitably loony Ida Sue, you have yourself a good hour of wanting to strangle Cyrus for being dense enough to almost botch his chance with the lovely Carol, and at the same time wanting to hug him for his ‘faults’.

What surprised me was the fact that, knowing Jordan Marie and how this pandemic has, like all of us,  affected her and her loved ones, she was still able to give us, her readers, a story we could enjoy amidst a holiday season still fraught with worry and anxiety.

That she was able to pull out something that made me smile, even as I am most definitely not feeling the Christmas vibe, is a testament to how she is as an author, and for that, I am very, very, thankful.

Overall, Christmas Carol* is a book I would recommend reading, preferably with a glass of wine, dim lights, a blanket, and a cozy fire blazing bright.

*Christmas Carol is part of a 17 book series centered around the town of Mistletoe, Montana.