Bah, Humbug!

If you're looking for a Hallmark Christmas movie in book form, this is pretty close to being that. It has its problems - mainly the insta-love plot - but all the rest is there. From the jobs of the main characters (one is a well known author, the other a tv diy show host) to the setting (seriously, they live on Christmas Street) to a Grinch's heart growing 3 sizes plot, it's the ideal cheesy holiday movie. Which I guess made it kinda fun (I will deny this later). Enough fun that I sorta ignored the fact that the kids were overly precocious, that the grouchy grinches hadn't dealt with their Christmas tragedy in 20 some years (over the top ridiculous) and that apparently while it snows on Christmas Street, it's never really cold.

The only part I really couldn't get past was a the insta-love. In 96 pages and about a week's timeline, they wet from strangers to neighbors who hate each other to emotional blackmail to getting married. Not just engaged, but married. In a week. Ridiculously fast. Which took me completely out of the story, because who does that? Which is why it get 3 stars.