The Plight Before Christmas Review

The Plight Before Christmas

Author: Kate Stewart

Genre: Adult Romance

Rating: 5 / 5 stars

The Plight Before Christmas is a new holiday themed release by Kate Stewart which follows 38-year-old Whitney during her family Christmas holiday. After a series of unfortunate events – not getting a well-deserved promotion, her car breaking down and dumping her “boy toy”, she just wishes for some peace and uneventful 6 days at her grandparents old house. However, turns out Santa has other plans. And as if things can’t get any worse, her brother’s unexpected guest turns out to be none other than Whitney’s college ex-boyfriend and first true love. The last person she hopes to see after their unfortunate breakup 17 years ago.

Little does she know that Eli has his own agenda for crashing the family holiday and that Whitney is number one on his Santa wish-list. Eager to make amends for all his wrongs, Eli sets on an impossible journey to earn her forgiveness but to do so he must start with winning over her family.. Which happens to hold a grudge against the guy who broke Whitney’s heart.

I absolutely loved everything in this book. It fits just in time for the holiday season with an amazing heart-warming story that would make you laugh, love, dream and in typical Kate Stewart fashion – tear up a little. Eli and Whitney are the definition of right person wrong time and that it is never too late to fight for your one true love. I’m a sucker for second chance romances and it made me so so happy that Whitney made him work extra hard for her forgiveness. Not to mention the freaking SLOW-BURN.. but the payoff was astronomical after all that angst and banter.

“What are you missing? I think it’s me, and I think I’m missing you, and I think we’ve been missing each other for a long fucking time.”

An honourable mention goes to the family dynamic which was perfectly executed!! I laughed out loud every couple of pages and felt like I was there with the whole squad and screaming little kids. Cute romance, Christmas spirits, emotional backstory and characters you absolutely fall in love with the moment you meet them. Honestly from first to last chapter this book was fantastic and I can’t recommend it more.