A cute Christmas romance! If you enjoyed Katherine Center's How to Walk Away, Christina Lauren's In a Holidaze, or Rachel Linden's The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie, then you will LOVE Through the Snow Globe!

Diana and Linus are engaged to be married, but he is getting tired of waiting for her to stop being "an Elsa" and just pick a date. As fate would have it, Linus is severely injured in a freak accident, and Diana has several weeks to ponder how she is going to handle it. Through a snow globe, which is Linus's gift to her for Christmas, an enchantment lets her relive certain days repeatedly. Does she realize what she has? Can she change his or her future? Find out... through the snow globe.

Diana, A physical therapist and Linus, a toy store owner are engaged and he is ready to get married and she's dragging her feet. They fight and Linus has an accident and is in a coma. His Christmas gift to her is a snow globe and it receives an enchantment from her neighbor and is broken. The enchantment makes Diana relive the day of the accident over and over getting insight and growth with each reliving. A sweet magical romance.

Through the Snow Globe is an enjoyable, holiday book about opening your heart. The main character, Diana, is hesitant to marry her fiancé because she didn't have the warmest upbringing and is afraid to join a large family. Her fiancé, Linus, has an accident and is in a coma. Her neighbor put a spell on a snow globe and Diana is reliving the same day (of the accident) over and over - like Groundhog's Day.

As each day repeats, we learn more about Diana and why she is the way she is. Diana has to learn to open up her life and heart to others.

This is an enjoyable, holiday book that I recommend. Thank you to the publisher, NetGalley, and Annie Rains for the ARC for my honest opinion.

I adore all of Annie Rains's small town, relationship focused fiction, and this was a charmer. It's a time loop story, with Diana forced to relive over and over again the day leading up to a terrible accident that's left her fiance in a coma. She's a bit of a closed off Scrooge (or an Elsa, as one of her patients called her) when the story starts, but she comes to realize the importance of relationship building and maintaining and opens her heart. I will say that the time loop got a bit repetitive to me as it felt like it went on a little too long with too much detail about each day, but I still enjoyed the story.

A sweet Christmas read. I'm a sucker for any story that manages to somehow include a snow globe in the story.

such a fun and cozy winter read!! I love xmas romcoms because there's just something else in the air and I think this is a perfect example of an enjoyable yet simple Christmas novel that will warm your heart!

Through the Snow Globe is a lovely story of hope and perseverance as Diana Merriman, a physical therapist, does everything she knows how to do when her fiancé Linus is hit by a truck as he bikes home from his toy store in early December. As Diana sleepwalks through the ensuing days her only thoughts are of how to get Linus back from the coma he has been in since the accident.

Her quirky neighbor, Mrs. Guzman, visits Diana on Christmas Eve not long after Diana had discovered the special snow globe of their small town of Snow Haven, NC. Mrs. Guzman professes that snow globes contain magic and proceeds to put an enchantment on the globe. She tells Diana that if she shakes the snow globe upside down she will be granted one more day with the person she loves.

In a fit of despair on Christmas Eve Diana does so, wishing for one more day with Linus. Little did she realize that she would become locked in a Groundhog Day type loop of the day she potentially lost Linus. But all loops are made to be broken, aren’t they? Perhaps it is more about the lessons learned than anything else when caught in a loop.

This is a magical story of love, loss, and finding your snow globe perfect outcome. I very much enjoyed this book and I do recommend it!

Being stuck in one day continuously seems to be a popular theme these days.
Annie Rains does it tastefully. Diana has to redo December 4 several times in order to try and prevent a disastrous accident that left her fiancé, Linus In a coma. I liked,the snow globe aspect because they are so neat to contemplate.
I liked the slight variations with each do over because I was holding my breath.
It’s a sweet holiday story and with a shake of the globe you get a different picture each time.

Oh gosh! There are stories that just surprise you and this was one of them. Definitely one of the best books this year! I loved it! Made me cry, made me hurt, then put me back together again!

Story was never ending loop for the Dianna. Diana was afraid to get to close with her finance's family and set a wedding date with his family.

She finds out that her finance was hit by a truck on his way home to her while riding his bike. He was riding his bike that night because he forgot to gas it up before he got home the night before.

Dianna has only one wish for Christmas - that Linis open his eyes so that she can set a date for the wedding. Little does she know is that the wish had many convolutions that she has to fulfill with her patients and one small child.

It was an enjoyable story.

For me this was a wonderful Christmas romance! I had a hard time at the beginning of the book connecting the main character, Diana, or even liking her at all. However, her growth throughout the book was so sweet and necessary in order for the ending to be satisfying. I thought the Groundhog Day type time loop would end up being too repetitive, but I felt the author did a good job of making each day different enough to keep me wondering what would happen next and how everything would turn out. Much of the book is filled with heartbreak and despair, and it evoked so many emotions as you are desperate for things to work out. Ultimately I found the end to be very sweet and satisfying, and I would recommend this for anyone willing to take an emotional journey to the happy ending.

Finished reading - Through the snow globe by Annie Rains

It’s a contemporary romance story with the Groundhog Day scenario and some enchantment.
It’s a very heartbreaking and emotional story and a few tears were shed while reading this.
It does have a happy ending though.

The weather outside is cold and the perfect time to snuggle up with a holiday romance. Through the Snow Globe by Annie Rains, delivered a charming It’s A Wonderful Life meets Ground Hog Day romance that will leave you feeling fuzzy and warm.

I love the classic holiday movie, It’s A Wonderful Life, and admit to having watched Ground Hog Day more than once, so I was intrigued by Through the Snow Globe. The tale that Rains delivers was filled with the spirit of Christmas, hope, second chances, new beginnings and love.

Diana Merriman lives in the small-town of Snow Haven, North Carolina with her fiancé Linus. She is interviewing at her physical therapist company for a management position and isn’t exactly looking forward to the holidays with Linus’s enormous family. Her world gets turned upside down when her interview goes wrong and Linus ends up in a coma. Now all she wants is to see him for Christmas.

The tale that unfolds begins with a present found in the closet and an unexpected encounter with her neighbor. I loved it and nestled down under the covers as Diana began repeating that fateful day. Would she get a happily ever after? Find joy in her newfound family and career? The story offered some sideline stories about an orphaned boy, the toy store, and a teenager with cancer that will pull at your heartstrings and make you smile.

If you are looking for a feel good holiday romance filled with the magic of Christmas, I suggest curling up with Through the Snow Globe.

This was such a sweet holiday read! The characters were likeable, the story was fun and it had a great lesson about cherishing each day as if it were your last and taking nothing for granted

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Kensington Books for my copy of Through the Snow Globe by Annie Rains in exchange for an honest review. It published August 22, 2023.
I loved the repeat in a time-loop theme throughout this book. It is one of my favorite Christmas story themes! I loved the character development and the way things progressed. I thought this was a fun, heartbreaking, interesting, and not predictable story. Perfect for Christmas, or December 4!

I loved this magical and heartwarming Groundhog Day type Christmas book with a little twist. So much to enjoy! The character development was great and the introduction of Dustin, the child in the foster system, will just melt your heart. I loved that it brought awareness to fostering and it was a really touching part of the story that brought me to tears. A great choice to kick off your holiday reading.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books for this eARC.

Thank you Kensington Books for the ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own!

This story ties ground hogs day with a winter time story. Diana is a physical therapist who is struggling with commitments she has made to her long time boyfriend. Diana is scared to get married yet masks it by going for all the wrong things. She decides she wants to get a job promotion and puts all her energy into that. Which in turn her fiance feels less cared about and like Diana is putting their relationship on the back burner. However one night, gets replayed over and over. Can Diana get her priorities right or will she lose it all?

I enjoyed this one! I really liked that it wasn't just another cliche winter novel about a women who finds herself and dumps her boyfriend. I will not give everything away but I am glad that things work out the way that they do in this book. I enjoy the writing style. The one small part of this book that I did not love was the repetition. I felt like it got a little bit old after a little while having Diana repeat the same day. I really liked the growth that the character went through in this story.

Read if you enjoy:
Winter Romance
Its a Wonderful Life
Ground Hogs Day
Character Development

Through the Snow Globe is a Groundhog Day type story which I really enjoyed. Diana Merriman is not looking forward to Christmas. Her fiancé Linus, was hit by a car while biking home from work at night. He is in a coma and the doctors have no idea whether he will recover. All she wants for Christmas is for him to open her eyes. She goes about her job as a physical therapist, but she is a bit cold and standoffish. When she finds a gift from Linus in the closet, she opens it and finds a snow globe. She shakes it and makes a wish that Linus will recover. What happens next is a repetition of the day, December 4th. Each new December 4th, she tries to make changes to keep Linus from being hurt, but it keeps repeating. Will she be able to save Linus from the accident? Will her actions change something else? What is she supposed to learn from these repeating days?

This was a great story, filled with magic, love, second chances, new beginnings and more. Diana is aloof and wants everything to be structured and follow a plan, but unfortunately, life doesn't work that way. I enjoyed seeing Diana grow as this story unfolded. She learned to care about her clients instead of just trying to make them better. She communicated for the first time and as she opened up to them, all their lives were affected. There are some coincidences in the book that I loved, but I am not going to share them in this review. This book had my emotions all over the place. There were times I was sad, others where I was joyful. I was angry at times and there were some characters that I didn't like all that much. I felt sympathy for one of her patients and was rooting for things to turn out for her with Diana's help. I love that it was set at Christmas and that a present was the catalyst for all that happened beyond the accident. This really wasn't a romance, it was a story of caring about others, love and new beginnings that I highly recommend.

Through the Snow Globe was my first Christmas book of the season. I love the movie Groundhog Day, so when I found out this was a sort of Christmas retelling, I couldn't wait to dig in!

I listened to the audiobook version, and I thought it had a great narrator, so this is one I'd recommend on audio.

Diana Merriman is a physical therapist who has been devastated by the car accident that left her fiancé Linus in a coma three weeks before Christmas. She is not looking forward to the holidays in their small town of Snow Haven, North Carolina, where everyone else seems to be cheerful and festive. The only thing she wants is for Linus to wake up and recover.

But everything changes when she receives a mysterious snow globe of Snow Haven, a gift that Linus had hidden for her. On Christmas Eve, she shakes the snow globe and falls asleep, only to wake up the next morning and discover that it is not December 25, but December 4, the day of the accident.

Realizing she has a chance to save Linus from his fate, she sets out to change the outcome of that fateful day. However, she soon finds out that she is stuck in a time loop, reliving the same day over and over again, with different outcomes and consequences.

As Diana tries to figure out how to break the cycle and save Linus, she also learns more about herself, her relationship, and her life choices. She reconnects with old friends, makes new ones, and helps others in need, ultimately recognizing that life is precious and unpredictable, and that every moment counts.

Through the Snow Globe is a heartwarming and magical story that will make you appreciate the people and moments that matter. It is a story of love, hope, and joy that will touch your heart this holiday season.

This was a charming and entertaining Christmas story. I enjoyed spending time with Diana on her road to self discovery.
Many thanks to Kensington and to Netgalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.