Ghost of Christmas Past Nolan Callahan intends to spend this holiday haunting like every other—get in, get out, return to his otherwise aimless existence as a ghost awaiting the afterlife. But when he’s faced with Harriet York, the sweetest assignment he’s ever had, he suddenly finds himself wishing for a future. Harriet York has no idea why she’s being haunted. She’s a good person—or, at least, she tries to be. A people pleaser to her core, she always does what’s expected of her. But as she and Nolan begin to examine her past, they discover there are threads that bind them together— and realize there might be more to moving on than expected.

I gotta admit that Christmas books tend to not work for me and I normally tend to DNF them pretty quickly since I cant just force myself to keep reading them since they feel like torture for me. But I’m still trying to get into them each Christmas. 

This book was very confusing to me on various topics. But the main confusing thing for me was Nolan aka the “ghost of Christmas past”. This book tries to sell it very bad that Nolan is a ghost but everything we read about him in this book just makes it seem like he is a immortal person with magic. The only ghostly thing about him was how hard the author tried to force us to believe that he was a ghost, which made me very annoyed, frustrated and confused because it was like the author of this book couldn’t get her mythology in order to actually make me think that Nolan was an actual ghost.

The characters in this book are pretty flat and shallow. All of the characters were also very boring and their whole personalities were what they did for work. Like Harriet thought she was a good person since she had inherited a antique store from her aunt, Nolan’s whole personality was that he had died young and now was a ghost of Christmas past. I personally hate when this happens in books where the character’s whole personality is about what they do work because I find it to be very annoying and frustrating. 

Harriet is practically a doormat with no personality and her whole existence was basically wearing pajamas and eating Christmas candy. She is the main reason why I DNF-ed this book and give this book such a low rating because I couldn’t stand her. From the very first page of this book I instantly hated her and wished that her Christmas lights wouldn’t work. 

The writing is very bad here, because it seems like a horny high schooler tried to write a Christmas book which was heavily based on “a Christmas carol” by Charles Dickens. The writing style in this book made me feel like the author didn’t care about giving us a good Christmas book but instead she was more interested in the paycheck she would get for publishing this book. 

The dialogues in this book were very cringy, generic and ridiculous. Because all of these dialogues in this book would never be used in real life. In a way all of the dialogues in this book are very childish and very unrealistic. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5