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Comfort & Joy (2010)

by India Knight(Favorite Author)

3.19 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1905490739 (ISBN13: 9781905490738)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Fig Tree

review 1: Comfort and Joy by India Knight, narrated by, Anne FlosnikHmm what to say about Comfort & Joy, first of all this isn’t your normal sappy with a good moral Christmas story it is more Sex in the City meets AbFab Christmas story. And that is exactly what I liked about this book it was fun and had many laugh out loud moments, but not one you want to listen to in public without earbuds in it does get a little racy in spots but that is half the fun of this book.I liked the characters in this book, Clara was trying to do the best she could and I like that she included not only her exes but their families too so her children would still have family there for Christmas, which I found very refreshing. She is a bit of an A personality when it comes to planning the big Christmas mea... morel and was happy that on the third Christmas in the book they went to Marrakesh and she let others do much of the work.I related to Clara so much, trying to plan the perfect Christmas for a bunch of people you’re not sure you even want to spend time with let alone what’s supposed to be a happy holiday. But I loved how she handled it, I myself would have drank much more! I loved Clara’s wit and sarcasm, I am a bit sarcastic myself so I enjoyed this aspect of Clara’s personality immensely!Anne Flosnik’s flawless narration helps this book along at times and who knew she had such good comic timing, she embodies Clara and all the other characters, as always Anne’s narration was spot on!Just a warning if you are reading or listening to this in public there are some laugh out loud moments and you may get sideways glances from people around you, I would also recommend not eating or drinking anything while reading especially the first half or you may ruin your book and/or your clothes from spitting whatever you have eaten or attempted to drink!If you like your Christmas stories on the bawdy, funny side I highly recommend this book. Just don’t go into it thinking you are getting a heartwarming sappy read because that’s not this book!4 Stars
review 2: I ended up liking this book a bit more at the end than at the beginning. If I could, I'd give it 2.5 stars. If I hadn't been stuck in a 2-hour doctor's appointment to get through most of it, I don't think I'd have finished it, although I'm glad enough I got through it as there are some funny bits (I do like India Knight's humour) and by the end things seem okay and people are mostly happy. But for at least the first half of the book, I felt the opposite of Christmas cheer. Everyone was SO unhappy - married people saying utterly hateful things to each other and seeming to hate both marriage and their spouses, lonely and desperate single people, people on their second, third, fourth spouses... I was quite depressed. I just didn't like the feeling that this is apparently the "modern" way of things. So now I'm tucked into a holiday Regency romance, I'm hoping that will suit me better. If I hadn't been stuck in a 2-hour doctor's appointment to get through most of it, I don't think I'd have finished it. less

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