One Christmas Morning, a review by Shelley

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ONE CHRISTMAS MORNING
Rachel Greenlaw

Avon
Publication Date: October 17th, 2023
336 Pages
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This isn’t your typical Christmas story but, I enjoyed it very much nonetheless. It was gut-wrenchingly sad and I love books that make me feel something. I didn’t mind a sad holiday tale because Christmas isn’t a magical time for everyone and I found it refreshing to read a story about a woman who has a hard time around the holidays.

Eva is a workaholic avoiding her life so she doesn’t have to deal with two tragedies that happened three years ago. I didn’t like Eva at first but as I got to know her I understood her a little bit more and her reasons for behaving the way she did.

This tale has some magical realism elements and I loved that about it. Eva gets a surprise visit from her long-dead grandmother. Her gran shows her what life is like for four other people in Eva’s life. Once Eva gets their points of view she starts to learn a lot more about herself. I liked how Eva inhabits the bodies of these ladies and gets their perspectives on things. It’s true what they say, we should always be kind because we never know what someone is going through.

This is Greenlaw’s debut novel and she hit it out of the park, for sure. I look forward to her next adult novel The Woodsmoke Women’s Book of Spells, which is due out October 2024. She also has a Young Adult book called Compass and Blade due out in February of 2024.

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