Do you have a place that you dream about visiting at Christmas? I would love to visit more Christmas markets in Europe, and to visit London and New York! Whilst I can't see actually visiting these places in the next couple of years, I was more than happy to have the ultimate New York Christmas experience through the pages of this book!
Evie Green has gone viral for all the wrong reasons. As an experienced journalist, she should have known better than to fall for a scam. As a pretty decent person she should have known better than to "borrow" the money that she needed for the scam from her housemates. When a video of her housemates confronting her goes viral, she is stood down from her job.
Evie was scammed when scammers offered her a once in a lifetime holiday to New York. It is a place that Evie and her mother had longed dreamed of visiting, but it hadn't happened before her mother passed away.
The only good thing to come out of this mess is that the Plaza Hotel in New York has offered her a first class, all expenses paid trip to New York at Christmas time. The only catch is she will have to document all of her experiences and share them on social media as a PR exercise.
American Noah Sanderson has some experience of going viral too. Noah is a profession soccer player in the UK and so is used to a little media attention. This time he made the news for a crunching tackle that broke both of the legs of an opponent. He too is stood down, and so decides to go to New York to get away from all the headlines.
Noah and Evie first run into each other at the airport but they already have preconceived ideas about each other. When they keep on running into each other, for their managers and the PR team it is a Christmas gift. After all, what could be better than watching two people rehabilitate their reputations as they undertake the various festive adventures in New York. But what if the attraction is real?
I loved the New York setting of this book. If you think of any Christmassy activity in New York, it is here from looking at the fantastically decorated houses, to the big Christmas tree to skating on the lake in Central Park and at the rink at the Rockefeller centre. There are also some activities that I most definitley would not undertake! I was glad that it was Noah and Evie and not me!
Evie does a lot of growth in this book, gradually realising that she has kind of shut herself down since her mother died. There is also growth for Noah who has a very regimented routine and needs to loosen up a little. They are both at places in their careers where they are dependant on other people to make decisions about their futures, and they could lose their jobs. I loved Evie and Noah together.
I have read a few Julie Caplin books now, and I really enjoy the way that she brings each new location to life. So far I have read books set at a vineyard in France, Positano, Prague and now New York and I do have a couple more on my Kindle to read at some point. This is the first in a new series called Christmas Escapes so I am looking forward to seeing what other Christmas romances she brings us!
I am sharing this review with the New Release Challenge hosted at The Chocolate Lady's Book Reviews. Thanks to the publisher, Rachel's Random Resources and Netgalley for the review copy. Check out the other stops on the blog tour as well!
Rating 4/5
About the book
Christmas on Fifth Avenue
Welcome to New York, where the Christmas lights dazzle, the snow is falling and love is just around the corner…
Evie Green's Christmas dream turns into a nightmare when a viral video makes her the laughing stock of the internet. But then a 5 star hotel sees a PR opportunity and invites her to New York for a Christmas she’ll remember forever.
Enter Noah Sanderson, a disgraced soccer star seeking anonymity. Forced to fake a festive romance for the cameras, sparks fly – but not the twinkling Christmas kind!
As Fifth Avenue sparkles in all its holiday glory, can The City that Never Sleeps show these two frosted hearts that, maybe, the best love stories are the ones you never see coming.
Don't miss this cozy Christmas spin off series from the million-copy-bestselling author of the Romantic Escapes series! Each book can be read as a standalone.
Guaranteed:
Forced proximity
Grumpy sunshine
Happy ever after
Cozy comfort read
New York Christmas magic – think red velvet bows, chunky tartan-knit scarves, giant red baubles, the Rockefeller Centre Christmas Tree, Macy's, The Nutcracker and more!
Purchase Links
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brand-Christmas-Romance-Julie-Caplin-ebook/dp/B0DJ6HS9NJ/
https://www.amazon.com/Brand-Christmas-Romance-Julie-Caplin-ebook/dp/B0DJ6HS9NJ/
About the author
Jules Wake aka Julie Caplin is an internationally bestselling author with over 2 million sales over twenty five books including the highly successful Romantic Escape series which has been translated into over 24 languages. Her books have topped the charts in the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Iceland, Italy, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
After reading English at university, Jules Wake worked in PR where she honed her fiction writing skills on press releases and swanned around Europe taking journalists on gastronomic press trips. These visits inspired the locations of many of her books. She’s now a full-time author and what better job is there than making stuff up! It certainly beats housework.
As an avid romance fan, she’s written in several genres including historical romantic fiction, contemporary women’s romance fiction and romantic comedy. October will see the publication of her twenty eight book, Christmas on Fifth Avenue.
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