Christmas Spirits by Isabelle Drake is a unique and wonderful Christmas Romance in which over a few days a young man and woman meet each other in a small town. It is a sweet story of boy meets girl with a ghost curse is bringing them together. I enjoyed reading the Christmas Story and acknowledge that it’s not exactly normal for people to fall in love so quickly and it can occur.

Interesting and surprising. A Christmas story with a bit of something more. I liked it. I didn't realize it was a novella. Could have been longer.

The constant jump in timelines and first person POV to 3rd person POV made this book very difficult to follow. The story was okay but those issues made reading the book pretty frustrating.

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this book!!

What a good book!! This one had me hooked from page one! I could t put it down. I loved the writing style of this book. I lived the characters and they had great chemistry.

This story has A LOT of potential! But, for now, I'll have to rate it 3⭐️. My biggest issue with the story was how it switched back and forth between 1st person and 3rd person point of views (especially in
the middle of a chapter). When it first happened, it threw me way off. The last few chapters were my favorite.. With the plot twists and romance going around. Overall, it was a cute & quick read.

This was just the holiday break that I needed. The story was rather thin, which is to be expected from a short story. However, I was engaged from start to finish. Thank you.

Starts out strong then it kept jumping around a bit. Had to stop and start a couple of times before the story grabbed me. Might just be me. Would recommend.

Christmas Spirits is a very confusing tale that jumps between past and present, real and imaginary, and first to third person. The constant shifting causes for a confusing plot that seems to lead no where. The main character (first person) is giving up her bakery, but the reason why is very uncertain. She doesn’t lack money and relocates to seemingly nearby Hollow Harbor to cater. We get this ghost story mixed into the novel that doesn’t seem to really apply to the main plot and is rarely referenced. We never even learn why the ghosts are ghosts - how did they die and why is it important? The whole novel is a series of interesting ideas that are not thoroughly flushed out and just become confusing.

Paisley Dunn has a bakery shop closed in her hometown. She moves to her aunt's mansion in Kentucky; she doesn't know the history of the house. It seems there are a pair of ghosts that haunt the mansion.
Lucas Lee has returned home to Hickory Hollow to reconnect with his family. He was famous in LA as a contractor. His brother has signed him up for the Santa contest which leads to a fun time.
Paisley and Lucas meet and seem to keep running into each other. They learn to break the curse on the mansion a couple needs to fall in love in the mansion. So, they set out to fake a romance.
We also learn the story of the star-crossed lovers in the book.
I loved the story, but it seems the author did not tell the whole story of the past and present.

The story starts out with a bang but I found that the longer the story went on the more convoluted and confusing it became.

Unfortunately, I found this book to be very chaotic, flipping from 1st person to 3rd person POV and switching POVs mid-chapter with no labeling or other indication. There were numerous typos and distracting gaps in the story.

This one wasn't for me. The premise was promising, but the structure of the book was very distracting.

If you enjoy a good holiday romance movie, this book is for you! I really enjoyed the main story of Paisley restarting her business, but the giant old house she wants to host her business in is haunted. It was a fun twist on a traditional holiday story. I liked our main characters and was rooting for Paisley and Lucas the whole way through! I found the romance very believable, which is always a bonus.

I did find the historical backstory that is interspersed between chapters to be confusing. Except for our two main ghosts, Charlotte and Henry, it was difficult to keep the side characters from the past straight because they are mostly unnamed. I think there was too much to the mystery for this little novella. It could easily have been expanded to a nice 200+ page novel to help untangle all the webs of the story.

If you love a good mystery, this will add to the plot for you, but know that you need to pay a lot of attention to the flashbacks from the beginning to keep the characters of the mystery straight.

This was a beautifully done romance novel and enjoyed the Christmas element to this book. The concept was everything that I was looking for and enjoyed getting through this storyline, I thought the characters had a charm to them and worked with the story. Isabelle Drake has a great writing style and am excited for more from the author.

This book is chaos, all the characters, all the POV, all the timelines, all at once.
It makes almost no sense and even the writer seems to mix up what’s going on some times and got Liam and Lucas mixed up at 93%.
The whole book bounces from one unfinished thought to the next.