This book was really fun, I had a great time following each character and this one had a very Hallmark, cosy, Christmas feel to it.

I must firstly apologise for the amount of time it has taken me to provide a review of this book, my health was rather bad for quite some time, something that had me in hospital on numerous occasions and simply didnt leave me with the time I once had to do what I love most.

Unfortunately that does mean I have missed the archive date for many of these books, so It would feel unjust throwing any review together without being able to pay attention to each novel properly.

However, I am now back to reading as before and look forward to sharing my honest reviews as always going forward. I thank you f0r the patience and understanding throughout x

A little bit too good to be true.
Which is fine if you can get on board curl up & enjoy it.
It was a funny cosy little read

This book was so fun! I’ve read a couple of other books from this author and really enjoyed them. I was pleasantly surprised to see that this was just as good as those. I enjoyed the story and the characters were very well written.

Straight out of a Hallmark film, I would love to see these characters brought to life on the screen. Perfect Christmas book gives you all the feels. With the Christmas charming town feel, Christmas tree farm and all in-between mixed with men and furry pups this was a perfect December read.

A cute warm and fuzzy Christmas read, perfect for the festive season. I also loved the addition of the dogs to the story, a well rounded feel good read

A wonderfully, cute and cosy read in the lead up to Christmas.

Feel good romance set in a Christmas and snow obsessed town. I love the relationship the sisters had with each other. And for someone who isn’t a dog person, I really enjoyed the addition of them to this story!

I am looking forward to reading more from the town of The Wishing Tree.

A really cute and cosy romantic Christmas read. This book is full of warmth, joy and comfort. However, I did struggle to finish the book possibly due to having difficulty in connecting with the characters.

But still a cute Christmassy read.

A cute and warm and like a fuzzy blanket story with a very atmospheric setting and lovable characters altogether. Nothing too dramatic or overly done, just a feel good story of friendship and romance and love overall.

Very grateful to the publisher for my review copy

A really great story, charming, atmospheric, great characters. Filled me with warmth and spirit. Well written and flowed nicely, was romantic and funny, charming and full of fun. A great read, i really enjoyed it.

A cute and cosy Christmas romance, but some parts of the story were entirely uncredible.

It also took me FAR too long to get intrigued by this book, at least 60 per cent. It's a very slow paced book, which doesn't often work well for me.

It's a second chance romance, so if that works for you you'll enjoy this book a lot more than I did.

Neatly wrapped up in a bow, this book came to me shortly before Christmas, it was cosy, light hearted and romantic, it has some good humour in it and some really good characters that warm your heart!


I'd definitely love to live in this town, the book touched on topics such as single parenting, abuse and abandonment which is refreshing to read in a romantic story, I enjoyed this book!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this book release in return for my honest review.

Another lovely tale from Susan Mallery.
As with all her books she sets the scene so well that you feel that you are there, tucked in amongst the characters in this cute little town, which is centred around Christmas and everything it brings. As the story continues you feel that you know the characters better and want them all to get their happily ever after.
I got to the end and did feel that the title was some what misleading as the wedding was a relatively small part of the story and to me it didn’t relate to a certain character.
A great, feel good holiday read.

traditional Christmas second chance at love novel that tells the story of two sisters and their second chance at love. Reggie returns to Wishing Tree to visit her parents for Christmas, the first time she has seen them since she got engaged then dumped the next day! Dena who lives in the village has given up on finding love and her HEA and is pregnant through artificial insemination. She meets Micah who is also struggling after losing his wife and child.

I struggled to get through this book. I just couldn’t connect with the characters and the storyline dragged, despite the dogs!

The setting for this book is adorable. The village is Christmas mad, they dont have a village square, the have a town wreath and steet names are Christmas themed. It snows every Christmas and you cant add any snowmen decorations until the first snow. So when the sisters meet new men, you cant help but root for them.

This is the first full length novel in Susan Mallery’s new series. I've written about the Fools Gold and Happily Inc series here previously and I love the increasingly bonkers concepts of the towns these series are set in: after doing a wedding-themed town, this time she's come up with a Christmas-themed town. It’s mad but it sort of works and makes sense if you’ve read any/many/much of Mallery’s other series. This has two romances - with sisters each getting their Happily Ever After - one is a second chance with a high school boyfriend, the other gets a rock star. I sort of wish that she had picked just one and focused on that but I understand why it needed to be the way it is because of the time lines. My first Christmas book of the year and it was a good one - even if it's utterly bonkers escapist wish fulfilment stuff!

I took a very long time to finish that book and I think that this is partly because I got myself into a slump but also because although it wasn’t bad, it wasn’t good. It didn’t pull me back in.

Yes it was cosy and cute and all tied up in a neat little bow like you’d expect a Christmas book to be.

The characters were interesting enough but unfortunately I didn’t feel greatly connected or invested.

A rounded up 3/5 from me.

The Christmas Wedding Guest is a feel good romance. If you enjoy stories that are incredibly unbelievable but leave you with a warm, tingly feeling, then this is for you.

Reggie goes to her hometown, Wishing Tree for the holidays and also to celebrate the renewing of her parent's vows. This visit is the first since her fiance proposed to her on one day and dumped her the next. Meanwhile, her sister has chosen to stay in Wishing Tree and have a baby by herself through artificial insemination. Both sisters manage to find romance over this festive season - one with a famous rock star and the other with an ex flame. Whilst completely unbelievable, it did offer a feel good factor.

I have to confess that I did struggle with this, it took me until around 70% before I was interested enough to not fall to sleep whilst reading. There is a big feature around dogs - I am not a dog lover at all and found this particularly off putting. Also, the wedding was a small part of the book and therefore I found the title to be a little misleading. I also found there were some unexpected parts - the book felt for the most part a typical, romantic love story but then an erection was made reference to which was a little surprising giving the nature of the rest of the story.

It wasn't my favourite book of the year and I was grateful when I reached the end, however the ending did satisfy my need for happy ever after.

Susan Mallery has gift for making fictional towns you wish you could live in. She has done it again with the fictional town of Wishing Tree. The Christmas Wedding Guest is the story of two sisters Reggie and Dena. Both sisters have been burnt from love, its the last thing they are expecting in their lives. Reggie has moved away from her home town, ever since her engagement ended suddenly. Fed up of waiting for mr right Dena has decided to get pregnant on her own. Content with her decision and life. In walks Micah to her inn, having lost his song writing inspiration after the death of his wife and child. Micah is hoping the slow pace of this festive town will give him the inspiration to write again. When their parents decide to renew their vows Reggie has to come back to Wishing Tree.
Shocked to come across her first love Toby, can these two work through the issues that kept them apart ? Will Dena and Micah take a chance on love? Susan Mallery's The Christmas Wedding Guest is the novel version of a hot drink on a cold winters day. Highly recommended for fans of romance.

This book is a fun Christmas book which takes place in a small town called Wishing Tree and the story follows two sisters Reggie and Dena. They are both women in their thirties who haven't had the best of luck with love.

Dena has taken matters into her own hands in her quest of becoming a mum. Reggie has to face her fear of the small town talking about her after her very quick engagement the previous year.

Both the sisters have romantic love interests and you follow that through with different perspective characters, which makes the book a fun read.

I mainly enjoyed the book because of Belle and all her cute dog outfits.

The end was sweet, however predictable I'm glad I stuck with it and read my first Christmas book of the year.

Thank you to you netgalley and the publisher. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to pick this up. I really enjoyed it.