Synopsis
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic… and then her bus drives away.
Certain they’re fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn’t find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead, they “reunite” at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It’s Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.
What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.
Rating
★★★
Thoughts
Eh, I’m just going to say it. I don’t like you if you fall in love with your best friend’s boyfriend. That is a no in the name of Girl Code and basic human decency. So, I had a hard time feeling anything good towards Laurie.
This forbidden love trope just didn’t work for me. The story stole a bit of my holiday spirit since it had a melancholy tone throughout. The main characters floundered around in the process of finding themselves, and it was messy. I wasn’t hoping for a particular conclusion, and was only happy when it all ended. That’s never a good feeling as a reader.
This book squeaked by with three stars from me. It offered a bit more depth and something unique to the fluffy holiday romance genre. I very much preferred the author’s new holiday romance book, A Winter in New York!
Question
What’s making you happy today?