Who doesn't love a good Groundhog Day spin? Especially one that is Christmas themed?

This was the perfect mix of funny, suspenseful and thematic. The plot moved along quickly, and wrapped up with a nice Christmas bow by the end. The characters were cute, quirky and romantic. Romance wasn't the highlight of the story, but it did add a fun element.

The Christmas Wish is set to be published on November 15, 2022. Thank you to Harper 360, HarperCollins, NetGalley and the author for the ARC.

This made me literally laugh out loud so many times. The writing was sharp and definitely a fun Christmas-time read without being "too cutesy" as so many holiday books can be.

ARC BOOK REVIEW

The Christmas Wish
by Lindsey Kelk

Publishing date: 11/15/2022

Rating:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Gwen is freshly single ( not by choice) and heading home for Christmas. But it seems everyone in her family has their lives figured out...except Gwen. She was recently cheated on and unsure of her career choice. As if this isnt enough, she suddenly realizes she is in Christmas Hell. She is stuck in her own groundhogs day- Everymorning when she wakes up, she if forced to experience Christmas day over....and over....and over. She must figure out how to escape this reoccuring nightmare.

But BOY her childhood neighbor/ former crush, she has grown up 😉

HOLY CHRISTMAS THIS IS SO GOOD!! *new favorite chrstmas book alert!!* Add this to your holiday tbr IMMEDIATELY!

It was aboslutley HILARIOUS and heart warming at the same time. I laughed, cried and loved everything about the book.

The characters were perfection and the story was ugh. CHEFS KISS!

This author paints the perfect scene. And it was so easy to get lost in Gwen's world.

Thank you so so so much @netgalley and @harpercollins360 for the chance to read this brillant book! @lindseykelk thank you for this masterpiece!

I received this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This was hilarious! I loved the different days and the characters were great. Adding to my yearly holiday read list.

Lindsey Kelk does it again! This time it’s a Christmas Groundhog Day. Gwen relives Christmas Day over and over again. I thoroughly enjoyed this story, the characters were great. I love the meaning behind the book and it makes you think about your own life.

Christmas meets Groundhog’s Day. The Christmas Wish is a cute book. Gwen was having a horrible Christmas with her family. She went to bed on Christmas night and woke up to the next day being Christmas again. Her only thought as to why this happened is that someone wished on the six-pence that was in the Christmas pudding and she has to figure out who made the wish and how she can help grant their wish in hopes of finally making it to the next day.

I really liked The Christmas Wish. As i was reading this book, I kept imagining it playing like a movie and would love to watch it if it ever gets made into a movie.

3.5 ⭐️

Groundhog Day but make it festive! I honestly wasn’t expecting to enjoy The Christmas Wish as much as I did just because I’m not a fan of Groundhog Day or books that follow that pattern, but this was surprisingly cute and fun!

OMG this book is so cute! I am totally in the holiday spirit now after reading this. The Christmas Wish is so full of charm and holiday magic!

Gwen Baker is heading home for the holidays after an ugly breakup and trouble at work. To her surprise, Gwen winds up in a time loop, repeatedly waking up on Christmas day over and over again.

I highly recommend adding this book to your holiday TBR if you haven't already!

Thank you to Netgalley and Harper Collins for this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. The Christmas Wish will be available on November 15th!

I truly enjoyed reading this. It was well written and captivating from the beginning. Gwen who is newly single with a broken heart after finding her boyfriend with his receptionist. Spending the holidays with her family, she wakes up on Christmas Morning repeating the day again repeatedly. It is such a sweet second chance story, I loved it. This would make a wonderful story for the holidays.

This was like reading a cheesy Hallmark movie, so if you’re a sucker for holiday rom coms like I am then this book is totally for you!

Gwen is a lawyer at a successful law firm in London. She has the dream job in the big city but she can’t seem to catch a break. After her recent break up with her boyfriend and an unspoken incident at work, christmas just does not seem the same and Gwen feels utterly lost and out of control. But when she comes home for the holidays and ends up stuck in a seemingly endless Groundhog Day-esque time loop, living Christmas Day over and over again, it seems she’s going to learn a lot about her family & their private struggles as well as discover her own hesitations and desires of life.

This story had some very sweet and emotional events and relatable struggles with day to day life. Sometimes we all get stuck in the rut of routine and lose sight of what’s actually important to us and to those we love. If you want a sweet rom com to read this holiday season, be sure to check out this darling novel! I throughly enjoyed it!🎄

3.5 ⭐. This was a cute Christmas read. A groundhog day Christmas. Gwen Baker is a newly single lawyer whose career is hanging on by a thread. She is heading home to the country to spend Christmas with her family. Then she wakes up and realizes that it's Christmas day AGAIN…and her own Christmas hell plays over and over again , with the family arguments on repeat. But she does have har old boy next door crush, Dev, there as a bright spot. But he now has a fiance. She is trying to figure out how to stop this day from repeating, while also finding out that she still has feelings for Dev…except Dev also doesn't remember what happened the next day.

This book was light, and very funny. It was not so much romance, but had more family shenanigans and funny times. I enjoyed watching Gwen's growth with herself and her family throughout the book. Why only 3.5⭐? Only because it just felt a little repetitive at times, but overall, an enjoyable holiday read!

Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for the gifted copy. All opinions are my own.

3.75 stars rounded

If you are are like me, you enjoy reading holiday books around Christmas time but maybe get a little burnt out with the Hallmark books AND movies. I felt like The Christmas Wish meets you somewhere in the middle - a little more depth than most Christmas books + still all of the holiday feels.

The Christmas Wish follows newly single Gwen as she navigates Christmas without her boyfriend or job. Stuck living Christmas on repeat (think Groundhog Day), Gwen works through many of her family relationships. What I enjoyed most about the book is (obviously) there is a romance perspective but I loved seeing Gwen grow in the book. I felt like her self growth was more of a focus then a relationship (yay for girls saving themselves instead of a man!)

However, like Groundhog's Day, this book did get a little repetitive with living the same day over and over. But - if you are looking for an enjoyable holiday book - I would pick this one up!

Thanks, Netgalley for the ARC of this book!

2.5 stars rounded up to 3 for Goodreads.

I really wanted to like this book. It took me a bit to get into it but I started to like it after 15% in but then I started to lose interest again when it became all about the family drama and not really any romance.

I did like that she was able to get to know her loved one better with each day…but I definitely thought this would be a rom com. I wish there would’ve been more romance.

Thanks Netgalley and HarperCollins for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

This was a super cute holiday romcom. The side characters are quirky and funny and the situations that our heroine finds herself in are just hilarious. You will literally find yourself, if not laughing out loud, chuckling to yourself.

The romance will keep you on your toes. The author gives you a little nibble that just keeps you wanting more.

Overall, great holiday romance! Perfect for sitting by the Christmas tree with a warm drink in hand.

I LOVED this! The writing is clever, witty, funny, and heart-felt, with an endearing self-effacing heroine and a feel-good story.

Gwen Baker just got dumped and (probably) fired when she goes home for the holidays and ends up living Christmas Day over and over again... until she can figure out how to right her course.

The romance portion doesn't happen in earnest until the last quarter of the book, but it's so cute and sweet when it does come together! The characters are well-rounded and mostly enjoyable, and the resolution is really satisfying all around. I highly recommend The Christmas Wish for an ooey-gooey, feel-good holiday read.

Thank you to Harper 360 and NetGalley for providing me with an advance reader copy to review! I loved it.

This book surprised me in all the right ways and it wasn’t until the end where I realized just how much I loved it !!

Synopsis: Gwen is heading home for the holidays with one plan in mind: to make it through Christmas day with none of the spotlight on her. Her long term boyfriend recently cheated on her, she is on mandatory leave from her job and she can’t be in the same room as her sister without getting in an argument. To make matters worse, when her family’s Christmas dinner ends up going up in flames, Gwen finds herself stuck in a time loop reliving the same day over and over. Determined to break this spell, Gwen decides to fulfill the Christmas wish of each of her family members and with that comes one fabulous holiday read about self-discovery, growth and love.

Thoughts: This was an adorable, hilarious and entertaining Christmas take on the common Groundhog’s Day trope. I will say that the romance is more of a side plot as about 75% of the story focused on Gwen finding her place in life and mending her relationships with each of her family members. I loved how with each Christmas, Gwen worked through the family drama and learned a lot about herself along the way. The days never felt repetitive and the author did a great job adding in new dysfunctional and relatable antics each day. The side romance storyline with Dev, her childhood neighbor and friend, was so swoon-worthy and one you will automatically route for. I loved how all the dialogue, jokes and references between the cast of characters felt so properly British and on brand with the holidays.

Read if you like:
-Magic realism
-Groundhogs day trope
-Dysfunctional families
-Self-reflection and great character growth
-Tons of laugh out loud moments
-UK countryside setting

The Christmas Wish is a cute holiday rom-com. Lindsey Kelk did a great job making this book funny with laugh-out-loud lines and including current references without being cringey.

It took me a little bit to get into this, it was probably about 20-30% in where I really started to enjoy the story and the characters!

I felt connected to the main character and found her both funny and relatable. I loved all the family dysfunction and her open-mindedness and willingness to learn and be vulnerable through her experience. It was super wholesome!

I didn’t feel connected to the main love interest at all, and did feel a bit annoyed a couple times as he continued to reference himself being a doctor 🙄 It felt like he wasn’t even a big part of the book, and the romance was almost a background / after-thought. I think this was more of a wholesome family story than a romance, but it did a good job being both and I truly loved the humor!

Overall, it was a sweet and wholesome read, but not a favorite.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to review this book.

In short: I loved this book.

It was the perfect Christmassy family dramedy I needed to kick off the holiday season. Laugh-out-loud funny, witty, heart-warming family dynamics - all things that make a great Christmas read.

One thing I do have to note - the romance aspect of this book is relatively minimal. I don't think the synopsis really does the focus of this book justice.

*Thank you Netgalley and Harper360 for the opportunity to read an eARC in exchange for my honest review

Thank you to Netgalley & Lindsey Kelk for the arc! I am leaving my review voluntarily.

The Christmas Wish is about Gwen, who’s having a rough holiday season. She’s been let go from her job, and dumped, right before going home to celebrate Christmas with her family. This book was mostly family/character growth, versus romance (it was kinda just sprinkled in at the end) - so this isn’t your normal holiday romance book. This is also a Groundhog Day book!!

This book was a little hard for me to get through, which was surprising, since I really loved the beginning - it had me laughing hysterically at the dad’s gift 😂 I thought the chapters were a little too long, and it took too long for the heroine to figure out what she needed to do.

All in all, it was an okay read, I just wish it was a little faster paced!

The Christmas Wish is a fun read that I can see myself rereading each holiday season. Told from the POV of lawyer Gwen Baker, this book is filled with snarky observations and pop culture references and made me laugh out loud several times.

Gwen is having an awful season- her boyfriend dumped her, she had to move out of their home, and she is on a leave from work after an unfortunate incident involving a stapler. She heads home for Christmas with the family and gets stuck reliving Christmas Day over and over, trying to figure out what she can change to move forward to the next day. She tries to help make her family’s wishes come true along the way and finds herself surprised by what she learns about each family member.

Gwen is hysterical as she decides to let the consequences be damned; she figures the next day will start fresh and no one will remember anything, so why not be daring and do things she normally wouldn’t? The situations she finds herself in are at times laugh out loud funny and at other times very touching. Her family members are fantastic secondary characters that are all fully fleshed out with their own hopes and motivations. The boy next door adds a touch of teenage crush and romance to the story, and their chemistry is divine. I found myself feeling very touched by the end of the story and the message in it.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper 360 for the ARC of this holiday read in exchange for my honest opinion!