Reviewed by girlinthepages on
1) It’s deceptively Chistmas-y. Until Lauren brought it to my attention, I had no idea this was a holiday book. It actually takes place on Christmas Eve, and rather than being a “holiday” book, it’s more like a book that just so happens to take place on a holiday.
2) It has a Breakfast Club vibe. Chloe and her fellow teen coworkers are all detained after their Christmas Eve shift under suspicion of theft. As they wait for the police to arrive in the snowstorm, shenannigans ensue as they have the run of the store to themselves.
3) The protagonist has diabetes. I thought this was a really interesting aspect of the book, to see how Chloe’s condition impacted her day to day life and how she managed it.
4) It’s very YA. The setting, the circumstances, the group of teens that seem to come from every walk of life…it’s all very YA, fluffy in the right ways but also lightly grazing some more serious topics. While it was a fun read and pretty much what I expected, I wish the author had given a bit more weight to some of the issues that were brought up.
5) It’s a little predictable. Maybe I read too many mysteries, or maybe it just wasn’t that hard to figure out, by I figured out the “culprit” pretty early on. I still enjoyed Chloe’s love of mysteries and her encouraging everyone to try to solve it with her, though! This book is just plain cute.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 16 December, 2016: Finished reading
- 16 December, 2016: Reviewed