Book Review: All I Want for Christmas by Maggie Knox

“You often leave things unsaid but that doesn’t mean the people who care about you most don’t know exactly what you need.”

Maggie Knox, All I Want for Christmas

Review:

I’m always in the mood to pick up a romcom or two around Christmastime. I pick carefully as I’m finicky in the genre. Given I enjoyed The Holiday Swap, I figured another Maggie Knox book would be a safe bet. Sadly, I wasn’t invested this time around. 

Both hoping to make their break into the Nashville music world, Sadie and Max fake a relationship for the sake of their fans after they get paired up for a duet on the reality show Starmaker. It’s a rouse neither are sure they can keep up given their distaste for one another. But is it possible that there could be more there after all? 

I retained very little about this book if I’m being brutally honest. I didn’t care about the characters or the plot. The vibes were good but I wasn’t feeling it. I do remember chuckling at a couple of the lines, but I couldn’t tell you what they were. Nothing was memorable for me aside from a strange time jump I should have been expecting but wasn’t and an obnoxious amount of miscommunication. There were some cozy bits, but not enough to make up for the rest. I normally love fake dating, or maybe I used to and my taste is changing, because this is the second time in recent months that this trope has let me down. 

Likes & Dislikes:

What I liked:

• It was a cute dynamic.

What I didn’t like:

• The romance felt rushed.
• People in books need to learn how to talk and listen to one another.

Afterthoughts:

I keep trying too hard to be a romcom girl. Once in a while I do come across one I enjoy, but I need to stop being so surprised when it’s a miss.

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