Currently reading | One Perfect Christmas | Blogmas day 4

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Christmas time is the perfect time to slide into a festive story and take your mind of the pressure for a bit.

My book of choice this year is One Perfect Christmas and other stories by Paige Toon. The first story is a novella of another book called One Perfect Summer. 

The story starts with and girl called Alice getting ready for her uni friends wedding, and is set in Cambridge. Each character is introduced with a small backstory making you familiar with them quickly. 

We eventually meet Joe, Alice's love interest and a huge movie star. They have managed to keep there relationship under wraps but Alice's wonders how long she can keep her normal life before it becomes unravelled.

From the first sentence you are sucked into the story, Paige adds so much detail so you feel like you are there.

★★★★★
 
Victoria x


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