Jerry Cooke
1.5⭐️ - Cheesy and forgettable, with writing constrained by set chapter lengths that make it chaotic.
April is back at her father's chalet in the foothills of Mont Blanc for the first time after a heart failure required a transplant three years ago. Her regimen of recovery has left her feeling incredibly risk averse and with very little joy in her life. When she comes back into contact with her best friend Eva's brother Augustin, she's slowly encouraged back into a love of skiing, but while attraction blooms, so too does risk.
I didn't expect much of this book, an advent calendar is meant to be kind of cheesy after all. I also didn't realise when I ordered it that it was translated from the original French, which makes for some slightly off sounding phrasing at times. With that allowance, I didn't hate it, it was fun enough and there were some chapters that left me really wishing I could read the next day. As a whole though, it was a simple and predictable story that was kind of ruined by the requirement to hold each chapter to exactly 12 pages.
1.5⭐️ - Cheesy and forgettable, with writing constrained by set chapter lengths that make it chaotic.
April is back at her father's chalet in the foothills of Mont Blanc for the first time after a heart failure required a transplant three years ago. Her regimen of recovery has left her feeling incredibly risk averse and with very little joy in her life. When she comes back into contact with her best friend Eva's brother Augustin, she's slowly encouraged back into a love of skiing, but while attraction blooms, so too does risk.
I didn't expect much of this book, an advent calendar is meant to be kind of cheesy after all. I also didn't realise when I ordered it that it was translated from the original French, which makes for some slightly off sounding phrasing at times. With that allowance, I didn't hate it, it was fun enough and there were some chapters that left me really wishing I could read the next day. As a whole though, it was a simple and predictable story that was kind of ruined by the requirement to hold each chapter to exactly 12 pages.