THE MERRY MATCHMAKER is a fun story about a widow, Frankie Lane, who is always trying to matchmaking everyone she knows including her best friend, Mitch.
Her meddling matchmaking of Mitch almost turns into a disaster for their friendship. Will Frankie realize that Mitch wants her as more than a best friend?
I really like stories where best friends find their happy ever after in each other.
I highly recommend.

The Merry Matchmaker is my first Sheila Roberts book and I’m excited to read more.

The small town of Carol has a strong Hallmark movie feel, right down to the nosy, opinionated inhabitants. None more opinionated than Frankie! She also knows “what you should do”, and is not shy in telling you. It was engaging, a little predictable, but entirely enjoyable.

This is an enjoyable, Christmas cheer themed read that I enjoyed, and recommend. I appreciate Netgalley and the author for supplying my free ARC, and voluntarily leave my review.

This a fun, cozy holiday read and will get you in the mood to sit by the fire reading with a latte!

Frankie Lane is a fifty-year old widow and the shop owner of Holiday Happiness. Frankie wants everyone to have a partner and is a matchmaker at heart. She thinks she is helpful; others see her as a meddler. Her matchmaking alienates her best buddy, Mitch, sister, Stephanie, and sales clerk Eleanor while completely ignoring herself as the one truly needing a match.

Lots of interesting small town quirky personalities contribute to the interest and the storyline.
For readers who enjoy Hallmark movies, this book is for you!

I am late to the book party celebrating new-to-me author, Sheila Roberts, and I have a lot of reading to catch up on!

This was my first Sheila Roberts book and I absolutely loved it!

Frankie is a meddler. She means well with it all, but like her mother warned her, it comes back to bite her in the behind. It’s the holiday season and the town is getting ready for their big celebration. Frankie just wants all the people she cares about to be happy. She’s so busy sticking her nose in other people’s business that she completely misses the handsome man who has been pining for her heart for years.

With one disaster after another, hurt feelings, a jealous business owner trying to take over Frankie’s festival, and love around the corner, this book is one you won’t want to put down. Perfect for the upcoming Christmas season.

Everyone will want to work at Holiday Happiness and be best friends with Frankie Lane, the owner!!
A year round Christmas store is the dream of so many…and one that comes with characters you want in your life is simply a plus!

This whole cast of characters that make up the town of Carol. There is so many people who have dealt with death and divorce it almost feels like a plague on everyone. Throughout this book you go on a journey of people learning how to love again whether it is other people or themselves. It’s also never too late to take a leap of faith. You cheer for the characters as you learn more and more about them all. If you love love and Christmas hallmark movies give this book a try. Thank you Netgallery, MIRA and Sheila Roberts for choosing me to be an arc reader for this book.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for allowing me to read this ARC. One of the descriptors of this book includes the sentence, "Frankie Lane knows what's best for just about everyone but herself." The sentence should be changed to Frankie Lane thinks she knows what's best for everyone. This book is laugh out loud funny as widowed Frankie goes on a mission to help everyone in her life, and maybe herself in the process. You can see the ending of this book coming from a mile away, but with it all wrapped up in Christmas you don't mind. It's funny and engaging with a few little surprises thrown in. GIve yourself a gift this holiday season and find time to read this book!

I'm not sure what it is about this book, but it gave me all the "Sweet Magnolia" and "Gilmore Girls" feels. Frankie owns Holiday Happiness, where her mom and daughter both work. There, she's the reigning queen of Christmas and self-appointed meddler (for good, of course)! After losing her husband, it's a lot safer to help others than to imagine a life of happiness for herself. But when her fairy godmother antics thrust her once-mousy employee into the arms of her best friend, she wonders if maybe she's missed her chance at happily ever after... again. A cute, cozy, Christmassy read!

If you love Gilmore Girls, meddling townsfolk, local rivalry, and romance then I think you'd like this book! This book was such a fun set up and idea. I loved the vibe of the town and the cozy holiday feels. The writing style this author used was different for me and it was fun to try something new!

Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC!

This is a cute older Emma story - I don't know why I got an image of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple with our main character, primarily because she's nosy and in everyone's business? A cute Christmas read for vacation that is full of emotion and heart.

The merry matchmaker, Frankie, is so busy helping other people have a good life that she forgets to think about herself. She is always meddling into their lives, and as Christmas is approaching, she wants friends to find their someone. It was interesting reading how her brain saw things, how it came up with things, and how it was turning out. Sometimes you don't see what is right in front of you, and that seemed to be happening a lot. It kept me reading because I really wanted to know if they would figure it out in time, that what was right for them was right in front of them.I can't tell you anymore, but it was interesting when she told a man friend, that the lady she knew he liked, needed a superhero, and then called him because he didn't rush over to see the lady. Sometimes, fate has to play a part and then it gets even more interesting.
I received an ARC from MIRA through NetGalley.

This was a fun holiday read! I had my misgivings about reading it in August, but once I got into it, I was totally smitten! The female protagonist is always trying to better the lives of those around her (some might call it meddling), yet she does little to help herself. When faced with an eye-opening incident, she realizes she has to take chances in order to make things in her own life happen! I loved the characters and their relationships with the protagonist. It made me want to move to Carol! Wonderful, feel-good book! Thanks to NetGalley and MIRA Books for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

There’s nothing more than a good romance Christmas book in the middle of summer! This was just so good! Sheila did an amazing job she gave me everything I was looking for! I think my favorite part was the age of the characters middle age characters can be very refreshing from the younger characters!

Frankie, 50, has an idea of who everyone should date. She herself lost the love of her life a few years ago and is not ready to date, but she's full of ideas for everyone in town. The problem is they don't want her help and she can't see who is actually interested in her.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I Can most definetely tell how this book takes after ‘Emma’. Which is both good and bad depending on how you felt about it to begin with!

I’m giving it…4.25. It was hard to come with a rating because as much as I do looove the ambience and don’t think it’s a bad story, it also felt kinda convoluted at times. A lot of dialogue, etc. which again, isn’t a bad thing per se but I understand some of the criticism. That in itself tho is what makes this book the story it is!

Regardless of those things, I still do think this one is a great holiday read. Prob not for those that enjoy insta love or fast paced stories.

Enjoyable plot of a widow who plays matchmaker for everyone in her small town. I can imagine her as a background character in many romance books and loved that this type of character is the main character. I enjoyed Frankie because she came across as real, imperfect while just trying to help others, and her mature age. A fun read for the holiday.

The cover is so beautiful and the synopsis sounds great. However, I couldn’t fully get into the story because of the author’s writing style. Sadly, this is a dnf.

I unfortunately could not bring myself to finish this book. The writing style was hard to keep up with and there was way too much dialogue for me. I'm also not sure if it was only because it was an ARC and the format was off or if the font was not cooperating with the writing, but I just couldn't tell where anything started or ended. I'd love to listen to this on audiobook eventually, but I had to put this on my DNF shelf.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Shelia Roberts always captures me with her darling books!! She just knows how to completely draw the reader in. This book was absolutely perfection. Highly suggest!! Makes me so excited for the holiday season.

Sheila Roberts is the undisputed queen of Christmas. Another smash hit with all the holiday feels, has me wishing it was December already. I so enjoy her cast of characters and all the love and laughter she folds into each book.