Christmas in Aspen by Anita Hughes ~ a Review

by Donna Huber

Editor Caroline Holt is on her way to her late mother’s upstate cabin in Hudson to spend the holidays. She was supposed to be in London, having a holiday romance. But this Christmas, she isn’t in the mood to get her heart broken again. Caroline loves being an editor, but in the last year burnout has taken over. She has been mourning her mother, and she is looking to get that spark back.

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October 2024; Griffin; 978-1250908155
ebook, print (304 pages); holiday romance

I fell in love with Anita Hughes's Christmas books when I read Christmas in Vermont a few years ago.  Along with Debbie Macomber, Mary Kay Andrews, and Nancy Thayer, Hughes is one of the authors I look for at Christmas time.

Going off to be alone and finding your passion seems to be a theme for Christmas books this year. 

Caroline has a lot of rules about relationships and love. She only has flings that last no longer than a month. But she is also a romantic at heart (though she might not realize it). While going through some of her mother's things at the cabin she runs across a red Santa letter envelope. A man is planning on meeting her mother next to Santa's Little RedMailbox in Aspen on New Year's Eve. The only problem - her mother died a couple of months ago. Determined to discover her mother's lover and not have him think she stood him up, Caroline books a room at the same hotel that her mother had been at that summer and heads to Aspen.

We don't have to wait too long for the romantic setup of the story. Soon after Caroline arrives she meets Max. I liked both of the characters and they have good chemistry together - you will be rooting for Max right away.

What I really liked about Christmas in Aspen is that there are 4 stories of love. We have Caroline and Max and then there is Caroline's sister Daphne who has been dating Luke for just a few weeks but they already know they are meant for each other and are engaged. But there are two other storylines that I became very invested in as well. When Caroline was at the cabin in Hudson, she also picked up a stack of letters from an author who had been popular in the 1970s and was hoping Caroline's mother could relaunch her career. In the letters, she describes her own world-romance romance. And finally, there is the author that Caroline discovers in Aspen who is writing a romance novel based on his own romance with the girl who got away.

These stories are all sweet and the characters are endearing. I wanted to be in Aspen, hanging out with them. Oh, and I have to mention the cute little girl who is Max's niece. She is like 6 going on 30 and advises Max on how to get the girl. It is very cute.

If you are looking for a sweet Christmas love story, then you need to put this book on your reading list.

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Donna Huber is an avid reader and natural encourager. She is the founder of Girl Who Reads and the author of how-to marketing book Secrets to a Successful Blog Tour. 

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