The Gift

The Gift

2022 • 53 pages

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Average rating2.9

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"It’s Christmas Eve and Stella Hansen is broke. She is so broke that despite working two jobs, she can’t even afford a present for her husband on their first Christmas as man and wife. But then a mysterious storekeeper at a pawn shop offers Stella an intriguing trade. Stella wants more than anything to buy her husband the Christmas gift of his dreams. But will it come at a terrible price?" --

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Here's hoping I'll forget everything that happened in this short story by next year so I can read it again!

December 2, 2023

WHAT DID I JUST READ?? The amount of times my brain blew in this short as fuck book. That's really so hard to do. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Just what I needed right now. I love it so much.

February 17, 2024

Better than I was expecting, but still not a knock out of the park. A short little thriller for the Christmas season.
Thank you to netgalley for this arc.

November 1, 2023

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