I Really enjoyed this book, I was such a good quick cozy christmas reads. I will 100% be reading more from this author

I love a good small town story especially when it is christmas themed! Molly was such an interesting character and i loved the idea of a movable library! There were so many characters that loved finding their happy place within the library and it really brought everyone together and connecting. The father was so sweet and created this wonderful idea of a mobile library to bring everyone together. I wish i could do something like that!
I feel like the romance happened pretty fast but overall it was sweet and definitely what the story needed.

I received a free copy of, The Little Christmas Library, by David M. Barnett, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was such a lovely Christmas read. We meet Molly who goes back home to Merry-Le-Moors to re-evaluate her life. She moves in with her dad, Jack who is still mourning the death of his wife. He drives the local mobile library, which Molly helps in out in. There's such a wide range of people who use it, and they begin to turn it into more of a community hub, until they find the library is under threat. Can they find a way to save it?

I really enjoyed this book. Whilst it is a Christmas themed book, it could be read any time of the year as the main theme of the book is more to do with friendships/family and community spirit. Molly is a lovely character, and I really like her dad Jack, who for me steals the show! Of course, being a library worker, I couldn't think of anything better than driving a mobile library, so I would have happily took Jack's job if you had asked me. The book is filled with likeable characters and they all add their little bit to the storyline.

The story is filled with lots of heart-warming and light-hearted moments. Whilst it does have some romance in it, it's not your typical romance read, and focusses more on the friendships and relationships between all the different characters. The book cover suggests a fun, humorous read, and whilst it is all of that, it's much more of a serious story than the cover suggests. I was hooked into Molly and Jack's story right from the beginning and didn't want to put it down until I'd finished. Lovely!

I read this over Christmas and was the perfect story to get me in the holiday mood! 5 jingle bells! Definitely a great read during the holiday season

Sweet, engaging and just so different to other romantic themed stories I have read, the premise of this was just so new and fun! I adored our characters and lived getting to know them.

I started reading this before Christmas to try to get me in the festive spirit. It is exactly what you would expect from a Christmas book but with a sprinkle of magic. Some of it is very silly but a nice easy read.

What a charming read! A genuinely warm and funny book based around a community who have come to rely on the mobile library for far more than just books. Lovely!

The Little Christmas Library is a lovely festive read. Relatable characters with some twist in their stories I didn't see coming but sweet how a very different group of people can unite and find friendship through a love of books.

A really enjoyable easy read for Christmas, perfect for getting into the festive spirit!

I particularly loved the warm and cozy setting and ultimately enjoyed the premise of the book. The cover leads you to expect a fluffier book and that is exactly what we got!

The perfect Christmas Eve read. A library fairytale.

I bet it would be great for a quick read on Christmas Day too - available from Kindle or wherever you download your ebooks.

A beautiful story with fantastic characters. This book was a lovely mix of friendship, love and Christmas magic.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC in return for my honest and unbiased opinion.

I enjoyed this one. A light festive read set in an old mining village that is still living in misery following the collapse of the only substantial source of employment decades before, the local coal mine.

We commence on a negative tone with the main character, Molly’s, return to the village where she grew up, having turned her back on London after not only being made redundant but finding her partner had been having an affair.

She’s drafted in by her father to help him at the local library… a mobile library! The library attracts a wide variety of local residents who, on the face of it, couldn’t be any more different from each other but they soon realise they have something in common… loneliness.

The library acts as a focal point for much needed community spirit and some damn right therapy… as is often the case, we never truly know what’s going on in people’s lives or in their minds.

Just when the community is finding itself again, and the residents are establishing some much needed social connections, the library is threatened by cuts to the public purse. Can it be saved and the positivity maintained?

I found myself focusing on some important lessons whilst reading this book:

1) the heavy weight of loneliness

2) that friendships can form from the most unlikely of sources

3) the importance of not casting assumptions on the character or intentions of others; and

4) the therapeutic side of libraries and what a shame it is that their importance are becoming less and less in the face of cuts in public spend.

This represents a great read if you’re looking for something light over the festive period but still looking for some content to reflect upon, thereafter.

“I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.” 📚

A really enjoyable festive read. Nice and easy to read, some lovely characters. Very nice, has definitely got me in the mood for Christmas x

The Little Christmas Library has everything I crave from a christmasy contemporary fiction
An atmospheric setting, a warm and cozy feel, great characters, a plausible plot linking all the different characters and good writting.
Unfortunately I just couldn't get into the narration style. I just didn't emotionally connect to the characters.
Apparently I'm not a fan of third person omniscient narration.
But since that is a me problem and overall I still enjoyed the book I will not hold it against it too much.

I should have known better than to touch this book. Fluffy, cutesy, cozy. Words that I am not the target audience to be moved by. BUT. I thought 'come on, it's Christmas. What harm can it do to you?'' Well, other than wasting a week of my life reading this drivel?

The premise is perfect. However, a fine premise doesn't guarantee a good result. Far from it. We are talking characters that have no substance. Dialogue that is painful. A plot that is non-existent. A character called Frankie that should have never been born in the mind of the writer. Talking dogs. Idiots who fall in love at first sight.

You know what is worse than a cutesy, Christmassy novel? A cutesy, Christmassy novel written by a man.

Thank you to NetGalley for giving me this book in exchange for a fair and frank review.

This was a fabulous book and encompasses Christmas spirit on every page. This was about creating a mobile library that provides a safe space for lonely people to come together. Beautiful story.

This was miles away from my usual genre but I fancied a quick Christmas read and this delivered! It's not often I laugh at books and this book tickled me for sure. There are definitely bleak parts, it's a true reflection of the state of things in the UK these days with the need for warm spaces and lack of funding for votallresources, but at it's heart it was a festive tale with a sprinkle of Christmas magic.

The "Publife" chapter was genius and I've had the Blur song in my ear all afternoon now 😂.

Santa, for Christmas can I have a magic mobile library please?

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Thank you to Netgalley, Orion Publishing Group and the author.

Christmas spirit and Christmas magic rolled into a fabulously festive read. Great characters and a novel that will warm your heart. Thank you to NetGalley, Orion Publishing Group and the author for the chance to review.

Molly moved back to her home town of Merry-le-moors following the breakdown of her relationship. The town seems rather misnamed at first being a rather bleak ex-mining town but the magic of the little mobile library that her dad drives helps to bring together a rather unlikely and diverse characters together. This is a bit different from the typical Christmas rom-com set in the Highlands or Cotswolds and I absolutely loved it.

This has a sweet festive central idea: a travelling library brings a group of lonely misfits together at Christmas. Unfortunately, the narration style affected my enjoyment of the story itself.

I struggled with the attempts at dialect, the ‘talking’ dogs, the swearing, and the mystery narrator who interrupts (no, we would never have figured that out from the ‘clue’).

A story with a heart that perhaps isn’t told in the best way.