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Christmas Mouse
- Narrated by: Ann Shanks Etter
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
What makes for the perfect Christmas? Where or how you spend it, or perhaps, who you share it with?
Small-town woodworker Ava Collins and big city doctor Bex Leone both love Christmas. Some might go so far as to call them obsessed. They love Christmas music, Christmas food, Christmas carols, and Christmas movies.
When the two women meet over a Thanksgiving dinner, it seems for a second they might have finally found their mistletoe match, but their initial connection goes wildly awry when they realize their versions of what constitutes an ideal Christmas differ as drastically as the places they choose to spend their holidays.
Ava is to idyllic, homespun Vermont as Bex is to the flash and sparkle of New York City. What begins as a good-natured argument about who has the superior way to celebrate the season ends in a friendly bet: The country mouse and the city mouse will each split the season in an attempt to convince the other their way is the truest path to holiday happiness.
Ava agrees to spend two weekends on Bex’s turf in Manhattan, as long as Bex will visit her in the mountains of Vermont for the other two. For one whirlwind month, each woman works to showcase her favorite traditions, memories, and magic. As snowy days give way to starlit nights, Bex and Ava find the ideals that brought them together offer more common ground than either of them expected, but as they grow closer to one another, they begin to fear that in order to act on their deepening connection each of them may have to relinquish cherished parts of themselves.
With the big day rushing toward them, questions remain: Who will win their bet? And perhaps more importantly, what are they willing to lose in the process?
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- 26-12-23
An escape into Christmas magic that is spoiled
Rachel Spangler is a skilled writer and has written a charming, lighthearted romance that brings to life Christmas time in New York and Vermont in a way that was mostly appreciated by this UK listener. I was hoping this story would be a complete escape from the many depressing issues in the real world at this time and it was very unfortunate that the author brought a deeply controversial, very serious, distressing and polarising medical procedure into the story in such an unnecessary and throw away manner. This almost ruined the book for me but good hearted characters, a gentle tone and a positive romantic outcome meant, fortunately, it did not spoil it entirely.
Reader Ann Shanks Etter, although she does not have the sweetest voice, did a fantastic job conveying the intrinsic good nature of all the characters and mood of the story throughout. She is also extremely good at giving the characters clearly different voices, without any of them sounding fake to my English ears. This is an uncommon but very useful skill amongst audiobook narrators and much appreciated me as a listener because it made it so much easier to follow who, in the story, was speaking at any point.
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