What Child Is This

What a sweet little Christmas story! I loved reading about Jack and Maggie and their longing to have a better Christmas than the daily grind of war rations and bombings. When the worst happens, and they are left homeless on Christmas Eve, they take shelter in a home that has a door hanging open. What sort of future might that door lead to?

Content: Jack swears pretty frequently, but it's borderline profanity

I saved this book on Kindle Unlimited a while back because someone recommended it as a short read and I am always looking for shorter reads. I picked it up randomly one day when I was out and about and wasn't in the mood to read the book I brought along with me. I picked this one to read because it was a short quick read coming in at less than 50 pages so I knew I could get through it pretty fast. I went into this one blind so I didn't realize it was a Christmas novella but I feel like it can be read anytime of year. As I mentioned this is set at Christmas time during World War 2 and we are thrown into the story immediately on Christmas Eve when Jack and Maggie lose everything they own because of the air raids. We follow them from the immediate aftermath all the way through Christmas Day. What follows is how even during war there is still kindness in strangers. We meet several different characters that show kindness in different ways including Jack and Maggie. For what this is it was a great story. It definitely pulled me in and pulled at my heartstrings. My only complaints is that Maggie came off really whiny to me which became annoying and the fact that I wanted more. In the end I was left wondering what happened with some characters but overall an enjoyable read.