Evie Crowe is starting over in a strange town with her newborn, and men are the furthest thing from her mind. If only the quiet, hulking farmer, Luke Ward, would stop coming into the thrift shop and piquing her reluctant interest. Evie wants to stay single all the way—she can’t trust anything more than friends-with-holiday-benefits. But Luke is in it for the long haul. He’s fixed on making this a Christmas Evie will remember forever. If she gives him a chance.

This book is the second book in the “Under The Mistletoe” Christmas book series. I gotta admit that the deeper I get into this series the less the series is a “Christmas” themed book series. I will explain more about this lower in this review.

To be very honest calling this book a “Christmas book” is like calling Die Hard a Christmas movie. Which is a very long stretch there. Because both in Die Hard the Christmas is mention once for the whole thing. 

This book is more about a farmer falling in love with the new girl in town who has a 5 month old kid from a previous relationship. 

I personally have a mixed opinions about the plot of this book. Because in a way I enjoyed the plot and found it to be interesting but at the same time if this book wasn’t branded as a “Christmas” book I wouldn’t have read it to begin with because its not what I usually find interesting to actually read the book.

I found the plot to be interesting and enjoyable as I’ve said above, but there were a lot of moments during the book where I just laughed and thought “What am I reading?” Because of how ridiculous this book was. Let me warn you, the plot in this book gets very ridiculous fast during a lot of moments in this book.

The characters here are okay for the most part, we only technically get 2 characters in this book. The two main characters, the farmer and the female characters. They are okay characters and they have personality to them which in a way makes them likable and relatable. But at the same time we only get 55 pages to get to know them. Which in my opinion is a too short to actually like them and make them characters we will remember after finishing the book.

We get some additional side characters in this book, like the main female’s 5 month old son from previous book and then later on another kid. But we really don’t get to know them because they get to be in the book just to give the two main characters some backstory.

The writing style in this book is very easy and simple. Which of course plays well with the plot of this book. But at the same time in my opinion the writing style could have been so much better than what we got in this book. Because I got the feeling that the writing style felt more like something you would read from a first time WattPad writer and not a author who have already written a handful of books before writing this one.

I Give This Book 2 / 5