Every Day In December by Kitty Wilson

August 29, 2021

A 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 festive read.

If you are like me and spend most of you summer days craving winter, when you can close the curtains and curl up with a festive romance guilt free, then this is the book for you.

I got Last Christmas vibes from reading this story. Belle, a little down on her look, works many part-time jobs, one being in a Christmas shop, whilst working hard to pursue her dream.

I know some readers have found Belle to be immature, many people are but this is a story of growth, in the space of one month, we follow her journey where persistence, luck and a support from someone who was on the periphery of her friendship circle when at university.

Enter Rory. The story starts with the last time Belle, and he were in the same room, the worst day of his life. Being comforted by his parents, in his deepest moment of despair, they didn’t know the other was there and Belle had more pressing things to focus on the inconsolable stranger.

Five years later, Rory rushes back to the UK from Australia, where he has been hiding from life in his work and licking his wounds, to focus on his mother and her recent ill health. Unexpectedly, Belle and Rory meet in her parent’s garden, where she is hiding from her family, and he is there to try and repair her father’s reputation.

In the run up to Christmas Rory and Belle’s friendship is rekindles and blooms, she determined to show him that there is still something to love about the season and he wants to see her succeed, and prove her worth, not only in her family’s eyes, but in her own. With motives like those romance is the only outcome to a hopeless romantic like me.

There will be conflict and drama, but that only serves to enhance to story, and to anyone who thinks that Belle’s character is lacking, all I can say is that everyone is different, we all have different experiences and what you class as immaturity, someone else will see a lifelong struggle with being underestimated and undermined. Sometime when people, especially family, say something with the best of intension, those words cut the deepest and cause people to act the way they do. I find that Ms Wilson has captured this reality perfectly.

Thank you to #OneMoreChapter #Netgalley and @KittyWilson for allowing to read and review this 5-star festive story.

Purchase Links:

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08Q3GNM7Z/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_AA9W576FYH60ATRKV0AX

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Q3GNM7Z/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_AA9W576FYH60ATRKV0AX

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/every-day-in-december-kitty-wilson/1138842845?ean=9780008405410

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/every-day-in-december

Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/every-day-in-december/kitty-wilson/9780008405427