Name: Comfort and Joy
Rating: 3 (9 reviews)
ISBN: 9780345483799

Kristin Hannah

Recently divorced and having no family of her own, Joy Candellaro is beginning to dream of a new life with widower Daniel O'Shea and his son, Bobby, until a fateful Christmas Eve forces her to make a painful choice. Reprint.

Comfort and Joy

Briar's Reviews

Okay. So.... How do I put this nicely? I just didn't like this book.

Kristin Hannah's book The Nightingale put me on a trajectory to try to read as many books of hers as I can. Thankfully, this wasn't the first book I read or I might have been running away. 

This is set up to look like a Hallmark Christmas love story, but instead it features a woman who is far too forgiving over a sister who slept with her husband is now pregnant (when our lead desperately wanted a baby), and a mystery that is far more fantastical but isn't really hinted at throughout the book.

Honestly... This was almost a DNF and I started kind of "not reading" the book. I was reading, but I don't think I was all that present for a bit. I would hardly call it a romance, but it hints a romance may pop up soon... Honestly, this book was mismarketed. Severely so.

Two out of five stars. At least it was readable.

Lyric Hooey

Yikes! I have loved almost ever Kristin Hannah book I’ve ever read but unfortunately this was not it. I guessed the twist pretty early on and was just not invested. It honestly felt like a completely different author altogether!

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Ballantine Books ... in 2005." -- Verso.

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