When Christmas Comes

More like 2.5 stars, but I'm being generous and rounding up.

I reserved this at my library before Christmas and forgot to remove the hold, so figured I might as well read it. Even though I found it in the “holiday themed” section of book suggestions, it's not really a holiday story. It's more Christmas-adjacent. It takes place in winter, around the holidays, but that's about it. The mystery wasn't terrible, but for me at least it was pretty easy to figure out. Early on I figured out that there were some grand theatrics that would eventually result in a soapy type resurrection of Jennifer (I was correct - almost the whole damn town was in on it). But really that was the not the part that bothered me about this book. I didn't get the purpose in all the psychiatrist scenes. Other than yet again to inform the reader how attractive the narrator was. Because apparently that's the one thing every character needs to tell the reader. Mostly I found him whiny. Whiny about a childhood crush at that. That's what made the grey, melancholy cloud hanging over the whole of this story even darker. And that's why 2.5 stars.