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review 2015-01-21 00:00

My Christmas Curse

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Actual Rating: 1.5 stars

It took my over three weeks to finish reading this book, even though it's fairly short. I liked the idea of metafictive elements as the protagonist published a short story in her newspaper column every day in the lead-up to Christmas. An advents calendar but in the form of reminiscent stories. Trouble is, My Christmas Curse was very mundane.

Sure, there were sweet moments but on the whole, I felt very lukewarm towards the book. With such a title, I expected the book to be either funny or sad. It was neither. What got to me the most though was the constant moral preaching thinly veiled by the protagonist's personal experiences. I didn't appreciate that. It wasn't a terrible book by any means but it sure was bland and the holiday mood hardly touched me at all.

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text 2014-12-23 16:47

Reading progress update: I've read 100%.

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At first, I didn't know if the story would have a point. It wasn't the Christmas loaded story i expected. Had a hard time bonding with Meg. Her stories were OK. The love story looked predictable from the get go.

I didn't see the mishaps she wrote about as a curse per se.

Glad she realized she was not cursed in the end.

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Of course she had to live happily ever after. It wouldn't be a christmas read if it didn't have the expected happy ending. A 3.5 star read not bad but not fantastic great.

A book to read and not feel bad that you aren't reading as much as you are used too because of the Holidays. Good short read for our busy Christmas/New Year's days. ;)