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Enchanting tale, but I've already felt it needful to skip several large swathes of spots with a bit too much spice, shall we say. 🫠

Hannah Linder's novels always keep me guessing (and, in all humility, I'm a pretty good guesser 😆), 20 chapters in and otherwise than the high probability of True Love, and I still have no idea of what the conclusion of this tale will be.

I read somewhere that this is a combination of "War & Peace" and LOTR and as I near the end(?) of "The Wreath", I can see that; even as it deals with much more sensitive topics than LOTR (for instance) so far, at least, it hasn't been "frying my brain" in the same way as 'War & Peace", though. What does that all mean" I'm not sure, but it's interesting to me.

"A Country Christmas" by Louisa May Alcott. Slightly silly and the romance is a leetle uncomfortable to my modern sensibilities, but the aesthetic is pure New England Christmas nostalgia and the hero pretty much looks like Grizzly Adams, so folks I'm not knocking it...

I love, love LOVE this book and can not put it down, the atmosphere, characters, and style are dream-worthy. Simultaneously I don't know WHAT I was thinking starting a series in which the final installment is not published as my anxiety is going into serious overdrive!!! :)

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Full review even now in the works. :)

Full review even now in the works. :)