The Christmas Promise: The perfect cosy festive treat! by Sue Moorcroft
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I picked this up because it’s a Sue Moorcroft book. I tend to read anything she releases!
Ava Bliss makes couture hats. She’s fiercely independent (to the point of irritating people ). She’s also being threatened with porn bombing by her sleazy, creepy ex. The ex is a total douchbag, but seems almost a different person when sober, so you can see what Ava saw in him at first. A lot of the book deals with the all too familiar threat of porn bombing – specially, pointing out that the victim did nothing wrong by posing for someone they trusted. This is likely to be thing that stops people from getting help, so it was good to see it tackled head on like this.
Issues aside, it’s a lovely story about an independent woman struggling to make a success of her business and a man who is trying very hard to be a good son. The relationship between Sam and his mother is beautiful. I dare you to read it without melting.
The celebs who walk into the story are brilliant (and realistic).
I live in a town where there’s a race course and lots of hat shops, but I’d never stopped to think about hats and the people who make them. I learned a lot about hats through reading this book. I’ll look at those hat displays with new understanding now!
All in all a lovely, festive story. My thanks to the publishers and Netgalley for the review copy of the book.
Rhoda Baxter 