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A heart warming seasonal romance that will definitely get you in the mood for the Christmas Season
After book one I just had to read on to know how the story of Carmen and Oke would go on, and I’m so happy I did!
It prolonged the cozy Christmas feeling for me and kept me in the magical book world of the Christmas Bookshop in Edinburgh. Edinburgh is now one of my top places to travel to soon(ish)!
In this book we follow Carmen and Oke after they break up. Carmen stays at the bookstore and makes even more improvements to try and stay afloat.
Oke is going on a Rainforest expedition with a group of scientists and a nurse, who happens to be a childhood friend.
But they just can’t stop thinking about each other, and just when you think they’ve accepted the fact that they should move on, something happens.
Seriously, this book sucks you into this magical Christmas world so good. The bookshop sounds absolutely magical and I want to get lost among all those shelves filled to the brim with books. And preferably whilst drinking a hot chocolate or mulled wine.
And the absolute slow burn is so well done! Sometimes you just want to scream at them to just go for it.
I did feel the miscommunication was a bit too much here, but on the other hand it did not take away from the story.
Some of my favorite quotes:
Carmen loved books, but thought they were designed to be read, not worshipped.
The heat, the dense moisture in the air that flowed down your limbs, and the incredible birds and wildlife that they had started to see as they had advanced deeper into the rainforest, all increased Oke’s desperate need to protect as much of this world as they had left.
He was the kind of guy, that if you disagreed with him in any way would, depending on how much he wanted to sleep with you, either call you ‘feisty’, or ask if you were on your period.
This looks incredibly cool. Well, for nerds. It’s like Disney for nerds
It prolonged the cozy Christmas feeling for me and kept me in the magical book world of the Christmas Bookshop in Edinburgh. Edinburgh is now one of my top places to travel to soon(ish)!
In this book we follow Carmen and Oke after they break up. Carmen stays at the bookstore and makes even more improvements to try and stay afloat.
Oke is going on a Rainforest expedition with a group of scientists and a nurse, who happens to be a childhood friend.
But they just can’t stop thinking about each other, and just when you think they’ve accepted the fact that they should move on, something happens.
Seriously, this book sucks you into this magical Christmas world so good. The bookshop sounds absolutely magical and I want to get lost among all those shelves filled to the brim with books. And preferably whilst drinking a hot chocolate or mulled wine.
And the absolute slow burn is so well done! Sometimes you just want to scream at them to just go for it.
I did feel the miscommunication was a bit too much here, but on the other hand it did not take away from the story.
Some of my favorite quotes:
Carmen loved books, but thought they were designed to be read, not worshipped.
The heat, the dense moisture in the air that flowed down your limbs, and the incredible birds and wildlife that they had started to see as they had advanced deeper into the rainforest, all increased Oke’s desperate need to protect as much of this world as they had left.
He was the kind of guy, that if you disagreed with him in any way would, depending on how much he wanted to sleep with you, either call you ‘feisty’, or ask if you were on your period.
This looks incredibly cool. Well, for nerds. It’s like Disney for nerds
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