This was a beautiful novel about grief,loss, addiction, family drama, and so much more. The characters and story were developed beautifully. An amazing Christmas story!

This book is truly the perfect holiday book! Thank you so much for the ARC copy, I am so grateful! I loved every moment of this book, it was so cozy and perfect!
I loved the extracts from Eli’s book, I really liked them and I liked how there was clear similarities in Eli’s book characters and the people in her life, even though Eli struggled to admit it at first.
I also loved the situation with Tommy, Angie and Tara, I definitely need a book about Angie and Tara next year!
Aracely was such a beautiful character too, I loved her so much, I love her and Eli and I love their story and they were made for each other and they are forever falling in love. The purple ribbon on the mistletoe was such a cute feature too, that was so sweet!
This truly is such an amazing and perfect holiday read, I loved it so much, thank you for my copy!

Thank you to NetGalley and Bold Stroke Books for the ARC!

Wow! All I can say is this is so much more than a Christmas story. Yes it takes place during Christmas but Alissa Bahney wrote a masterpiece that tackles grief, loss, addiction, family drama, etc. It was a beautiful story and the character development was phenomenal. I usually am not a big fan of Christmas books because I feel like they can be limiting. But I would read Close to Home any time of the year!!