4.5 stars, rounded up to 5.

Let me start by saying that All I Want For Christmas Is the Girl Who Can’t Love is the fourth book in a series. I didn’t know this going into the book, so I read it as a standalone. But even without reading the previous books, I really enjoyed this book. I think this can be read perfectly as a standalone, though I’m sure there are references to previous books that I might have missed reading it this way.

All I Want For Christmas Is the Girl Who Can’t Love is a college-aged, slow-burn romance. Savannah Mason arrives at college as a freshman who doesn’t believe in love, believing that she’s never going to fall in love. She meets Jordan Merrick, a junior, the day that she’s moving in, and as they run into each other a few times, they quickly become friends. As the semester continues, Savannah finds herself helping with Jordan’s archeology dig on the weekends, and Jordan pulls Savannah into his investigation on old love letters written between a Revolutionary War solider and the love that he left behind to fight the war. I’m not going to go further into the plot than that, because it’s a joy to discover for itself.

There’s so much that I loved about this one. Savannah has dyslexia, and I loved that representation in the book and how it showed the difficulty of managing college classes with it. Jordan was my favorite from the beginning. He’s a history nerd in the best way, and the way his friendship develops with Savannah is heartwarming and beautiful. The addition of the Revolutionary War letters and the investigation into what happened to the writers of the letters were a great addition to the book and just as memorable as the story between Savannah and Jordan. The romance was slow burn on this one, and I didn’t mind at all. I had a hard time putting this book down, and this is a book that had me laughing and crying.

I expected this to be more of a Christmas focused romance, based on the title and the description, but the book took place over the college semester, so most of the book happened outside of the holidays. It didn’t make me love those moments in the plot any less, but it wasn’t what I was expecting in the timeline.

Many thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the digital copy in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

This is book is really good. It is such a good feel good book. I think that this book and Chelsea Bobulski's book in the same series would be such good movies. I love that this books and the others in the series are really good as standalone books, but also really good together. I love that they are set in the same world, but you can read them separately too and they are awesome. I would recommend these to people who love the holidays and those who have lost their holiday spirit. This book is worth all the hype it has been getting.

Book Review.

All I Want For Christmas Is The Girl Who Can’t Love by @chelseabobulski is the last book in her Christmas series. This series has been so much fun to read, and I loved how it was like a Netflix series for books!

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I just have to say, of all the boys in the span of her four Christmas books…Jordan is my favorite. Probably because he is me in male form. I’d loooove to discover the things he discovers in his archeological quest. He spirit is gentle and kind, and he continually pushes Savannah just enough to test her love theories.

Savannah is hardened, and understandably so. She is strong-willed, a smart wip, and ambitious. While she wasn’t my favorite of the women (that belongs to Piper), she was a wonderful character and I see a lot of one of my friends in her.

Overall, this book was an easy read with a dash of hard concepts, much like her other books in this series. It took me a while to finish simply because of time constraints as I was finishing my own story.

Content Warnings: mention of curses (essential to this story line, though…and has redemptive qualities), more curse words than the previous three

Thank you so much to the author, @netgalley and @wisewolfbooks for the eARC ❤️

Rating: 2.5 stars

Part of my low rating is the fact that I came for a Christmas story and don't feel like I got one. Why would you put Christmas in the title and then set 75% of the book in the fall?? 😩

The synopsis also feels like a bit of false advertising because Savannah and Jordan's investigation of the family curse is a pretty minor subplot, but I don't mind that part as much since I wasn't that invested in that particular aspect of the story anyway.

Overall, it was a fairly cute story featuring a prickly girl x cinnamon roll romance but a bit forgettable.

Chelsea Bobulski’s All I Want for Christmas young-adult contemporary series comes to an end with this wonderful holiday romance that focuses on exploring the hope and magic of unforgettable love.

Savannah is a college freshman, and doesn’t believe in magic or true love. What she believes in is science, and her beliefs on love coincide with that of what science paints it to be which is just an impulse to reproduce. She has also had to witness every woman in her family ending up broken hearted and insistent on blaming a mysterious, vengeful curse.

But Savannah has determination to rewrite her story, and as far as she’s concerned, she’s never going to fall in love. But everyone's defenses can crack someway by someone. She just hadn't come across him yet. That is until she meets Jordan.

Jordan is a junior at William & Mary and on the fast track to obtaining his life’s goal: becoming the next Ron Chernow. A part of him distantly dreams and imagines that, someday, he’ll have a wife and kids. But his drive at the current moment is to accomplish his goals as quickly as possible. Love can come another day once his career is secure and cemented. But just like Savannah he never expected to come across the one person that could have an affect on him like no one else had.

When they keep crossing paths on campus and Savannah finds herself helping at Jordan’s archaeology site, all their reasons for putting love on the back burner start to blur.

Forged together, they investigate Savannah’s family’s curse on love and explore a collection of love letters between a revolutionary soldier and the girl he left behind. But when they come face-to-face with the truth about themselves—and with the truth about what they’ve become to each other—Jordan’s outlook on love starts to waver, and he begins to wonder if he can convince Savannah that love is real. But will Savannah run before her heart is able to let go of cynicism and believe in the power and magic of love?

This college romance hit me right in the feeling constantly throughout the entire book. This series is truly wonderful, and I think this was a great story to end the series on. I'm so thrilled to see where the authors writing goes next. Thank you NetGalley for an arc of this book.

Yes, Savannah did annoy me sometimes but that's not a big deal. Jordan was always so sweet and helpful and he lowkey reminds me of Elliot from Love and Other Words (but no one compares to Elliot obviously). The story surrounding the archaeology site was also super interesting and I found myself wanting to know what happens just as much as they did.

My main problem with this book, which isn't really a big thing tbh, is that I was expecting it to be centered around the Christmas season a lot more than it was. The story takes place in the first semester of Savannah's freshman year and ends in December so I guess that's were Christmas comes in? But I was expecting more

I definitely recommend reading this when it comes out. It's a really quick read and I finished it in like 4 hours. PLUS it’s dual pov 👀

It’s not often I find a protagonist who dislikes love as much as Savannah did in All I Want for Christmas is the Girl Who Can’t Love, but I can understand why she has guarded herself from the emotional/higher power aspect of love beyond the scientific mechanism of hormonal chemistry in our bodies if it meant losing herself seeing how her mother does with each boyfriend.

I really enjoyed the dual POV between Jordan and Savannah. If I wanted a cute, romantic story that showed us love can be more, can actually be like magic, then this is the one to read. Jordan can definitely woo a girl and has the maturity of the college-age boy that he is, which is rare in YA novels.

The archaeological aspect where the two of them try to figure out the mystery behind a couple from the Revolutionary War era was a great way to look at history in the beautiful colonial Williamsburg (which I really need to visit someday) and to showcase love beyond genetic survival. As a scientist, I can understand how some people may like to think of it in this way, but as a hopeless romantic, I am 100% like Jordan too, rooting for love in every way.

One quick shoutout for the rep in highlighting Savannah’s struggle with dyslexia that cannot stop her from pursuing her dreams to be a travel writer someday. I love that it focuses on how studying can be hard for her while also not letting it be a foregone stumbling block to her dreams.

The ending wrapped well, with plenty of faces from the whole series that connects us full circle. I love seeing everyone together. Also, Jordan made a cameo in book 1 (that was SO cool) so it really is a full circle moment and I’m super glad I read this series in time for Christmas.

I fell in love with Jordan after the first chapter and im not sure how Savannah was able to hold off on admitting how she felt about him for so long. This book was AMAZING and drew me in so quickly I had read the whole thing in one sitting. Jordan is the ideal love interest to me and he had the vibes of a genuine nice guy who had older values of looking for someone to love and bring a lot of romance to the relationship. I love how the book ties in a lot of the information taken from the classes Jordan and Savannah have to have the history classes and interests play a huge part in their story. It was very new to see people fall in love alongside finding and analyzing love letters from the 1700's. As much as this book is not too much of a christmas vibe so it's perfect any time of year, it was adorable and I can honestly say i'll probably find myself reading it again and telling others to get a copy of this book ASAP.

Thank you Chelsea Bobulski and Wise Wolf Books for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my thoughts. Where do I even begin with this book, it was amazing!
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The plot of this book was so interesting and really kept me glued. I needed to read more, needed to stay up late until I could finish it. In this book, Savannah, who we have had the chance to hear a little about in Bobulski’s companion novels, is off at college doing her very best. She struggles to keep up because of her dyslexia. However, a cute, romantic boy named Jordan had shown up at the right time and is always willing to lend a helping hand. It all seems so cute, but there is a hitch. Savannah doesn’t believe in love. She views it as something completely scientific, avoidable. So Jordan sets out to convince Savannah that love is real.
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As the weeks at college pass, we get to see so much. There is romance, college work, an archeological dig site, 200-year-old love letters, Christmas, cute banter, self-realization, friendship, and so much more.
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I never wanted to put this book down. I wanted to sit by the fire with a cup of tea, and this book all day. But I managed to go about my business, sneaking in reading as often as I could. When I did finish the book it felt so gratifying. The story wrapped up so nicely, I was legit squealing. It not only wrapped up this book, but it wrapped up the other three novels in this companion series. It has been a dream to read about the people of Christmas, Virginia.

I went into this expecting a super cozy, wintery, holiday read. But Christmas was only ever just mentioned a couple times. So, I was let down by that, but really liked the book nonetheless.

The story centres around university students living on campus who meet and have an instant connection.  But things can't be easy or the book would be boring so, due to a family curve, Savannah doesn't belive in love so she puts up barriers not allowing Jordan (I loved Jordan) through.

I really liked the historical aspects thrown in with Jordan's research for his thesis and his overall personality. He was favourite character. Savannah was great, too, but at times I wanted to shake her upside down.

The ending was satisfying.

My only complaint was that I was mislead due to the title and cover. I can think of several more fitting titles than the one it has! Don't expect a cozy, holiday read and you'll not be disappointed.

"What chance does a guy like me - dependable, strait-laced, boring me - have with a girl who could make the stars stand still at the mere mention of her name?"

In this fourth installment of Chelsea Bobulski's "All I Want For Christmas" series, we follow Savannah and Jordan through Savannah's first semester of college as she struggles with adapting to dorm life, new roommates, and juggling a college course load while managing her dyslexia. Jordan steps in to help Savannah with her history work and also takes on the task of proving to her that love is real - not just a product of biology and hormones, but also a magical feeling. Savannah resists Jordan's help - both in love and history - as she cringes from the idea of love and the family curse on love her mother believes haunt the women of her family. As Savannah helps unearth the secrets of Jordan's archeological dig site, Jordan helps unearth the magic of the love they feel for each other.

A cute story about young love, interwoven with a historical love story that Jordan and Savannah follow as they discover hidden love letters from an earlier time. I enjoyed their banter and their opposing views on the magic of love.

Check this one out if you are looking for:
- a light-hearted, Hallmark love story
- YA/college romance
- grumpy / sunshine dynamic
- historical love letters with declarations such as, "When others lean away as if I am the oddest creature they have ever had the misfortune of encountering, you lean in, as if I am the most fascinating woman to have ever walked the earth."

This publishes 12/22/21 and I will post my review on bookstagram on publication day.

Plot:
College freshman Savannah doesn’t believe in magic or true love. She believes in science, and science tells her that love is nothing more than a biological impulse to breed. She believes she can ignore that impulse. No woman in her family has ever been lucky in love. But Savannah is determined to rewrite her story. She’s never going to fall in love.

Jordan is a junior at William & Mary and on the fast track to obtaining his life’s goal: becoming the next Ron Chernow. He vaguely imagines that, someday, he’ll have a wife and kids. Jordan’s drive is to accomplish his goals as quickly as possible. Love can come another day once his career is cemented.

Thoughts:
This is the fourth one in the All I Want For Christmas books. This one is my favorite one. I loved Jordan so much. Savannah was a bit much for me but I love them together. Savannah is dyslexic. Jordan helps her succeed in school and it's the sweetest. Their chemistry is so good. It's a slow transition to love vs instalove, which I appreciate. This one wasn't super heavy on showing Christmas stuff but I honestly think it's the style of these books.

Dual POV ✔
Grumpy/Sunshine ✔
Little bit of drama ✔
Cute banter ✔

Highly recommend you read this series. My favorites in order are 4, 2, 1, and 3. ❤

Thank you, Netgalley for the eARC!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc of All I Want For Christmas is the Girl Who Can't Love by Chelsea Bobulski.

This rounds out the All I Want for Christmas series by Bobulski but for me I didn't find that it ended on a strong note. Asides from the first one this was the my lowest rated of the series.

What I enjoyed about the series was the setting. I am a sucker for college stories and college towns. There is something about them that always seems to be so removed from real life and Bobulski really had that atmosphere in it. I also enjoyed the historical backstory that was part of this novel. It reminded me of one of my favourite Nora Roberts series and how important this was to the characters. The last part that I really enjoyed was the epilogue. We got a wrap up of all the characters that we were introduced to in the four novels. This included Graham, Piper, Sarah, and Jeremy, even if they weren't really a part of the last three books. They popped up here and there in the novels but weren't as big of a part as Savannah, Isla, and Evelyn and their respective boyfriends. The epilogue felt like a nice check in with all the characters to see how they were ending up and a nice way to end the book.

What I really didn't enjoy about this book was the character of Savannah, I know that the woman that doesn't believe in love is often a trope of romance novels but I found this frustrating. Her absolute refusal to grow and learn from her mother's mistakes, asides from avoiding any possibility of love altogether, just made her feel really annoying. There was too much fighting that took place only in Savannah's mind for me to truly enjoy the story.

Overall it gave me a satisfactory ending to the series, even if I could have skipped this particular story line and I gave it 3.5 stars.

This fourth book in the All I Want for Christmas series. This time is it Savannah who gets knocked off her feet.
This was a delightful selection. I really enjoyed the setting in Williamsburg.

Thank you to Wise Wolf Books and NetGalley for the e-ARC!

This is the last book in this series, and it centred once again on a new romance. In this book we got to see Savannah and Jordan and what happened between the two of them. It was another sweet romance and I liked how it ended. We also got to see some of the characters from the previous books and catch up with them at the end which was great. Like the third book in the series, this book was also less holiday themed, though it was Christmas at the end. It was really only December for the last quarter of the book, most of it took place from September to November. I didn’t mind that, but did expect some more Christmas action, especially considering how Christmas themed the first two books were. Overall, a great romance, but I wouldn’t consider it really holiday themed.

I enjoyed this one and really liked the characters. A fun holiday read! It was great to see all the stories wrap up in this one.

This is the fourth book in the series and this one focuses on two college students instead of high school. Savannah has sworn off love after seeing what her mother has gone through and the family cuse of course. Jordan is focused on his degree and knows love can wait. I actually think this one is better than the other three books and also enjoyed the mystery of the love letter. The epilogue at the end is a very nice touch.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in return for an honest review.

Cute holiday story about a girl who believes she is cursed to never find love. 4th book in the series and I personally liked it the best. Fun, easy, fast read.

I won’t be reading this title. I have all of the books in this series and the first two that I attempted to read were basically the same. Much emotional cheating and the plot is almost exactly the same. I don’t want to set myself up for that again.

All I want for Christmas is the Girl who cant love

by Chelsea Bobulski


4 stars


Sum it up:

Savannah just started college, doesn't believe in love she believes it's all hormones and nothing else. 

Jordan is a junior and fast-tracking to finish his degree knowing someday he'll find his forever love after his past he's okay with just focusing on school. 

Neither of them except to run into each other all over campus and become a big part of each other's lives. 


My thoughts: 

I love how guarded savannah is I can relate in a way after seeing her mother's failed relationships and not ever having hope for the special love it's hard to not just box it all up and claim love to be all hormones. We see how the books intertwine more in this one, you have the little glimpses from the last book in this one it's great I love that. Reading how Savannah's character grows is nice, she needs Jordan and he needs her. You get to see them both grow and show a different side of themselves. The epilogue was the best part though having everyone together one year later seeing how they all have grown made me get so giddy