24 Days Before Christmas: A Book Review
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Age Appropriate For:
13 and up for violence and mild intensity
Best for Ages:
13 and up
Description: God Rest Ye
Missing Gentleman...
Leland Bell is missing. Blood on the
carpet, an absent vehicle, and vanishing fingerprints point to a sinister crime
in tiny Poinsettia. The Singh and Winter families are just trying to celebrate
Christmas with their friends, but their normal traditions are getting mixed up
with murder investigations and police interviews. A dark shadow threatens the
joy of the season and the townspeople find their trust in God shaken.
Each day brings a new Christmas carol
for the families to memorize and revealing new clues to what could be a double
murder.
Carols and crime, memories and mystery,
doubters and danger – will there be a Merry Christmas after all?
I’ve wanted to read this for quite a while I finally made
time in my Christmas reading binge of 2019 to read this story. I’m glad I did.
It was a well-told story with lots of fun Christmas aspects, as well as a solid
mystery.
First of all, I loved all the Christmas traditions that this
family had. Really, I would have almost read the whole book just to enjoy the antics
of a family trying to memorize all those long carols ever day, watch old
Christmas movies, as well as all the other fun stuff.
The mystery was well done and took a lot of unexpected
twists. Nothing was very graphic, but I would still say that younger readers or sensitive readers who usually avoid murders and death should probably skip
on this story. I have to say that it kept me reading and flipping those digital
pages to find out what was going to happen next.
Perhaps the only downside to this story was the number of
characters. While Jones did a pretty good job with the story, there were a
couple of places I was a little lost. However, the large cast was a huge and
very special part of the book.
I highly recommend this story to those who love clean
mysteries, stories about larger families, and Christmas novels that aren’t all
fluff.
1 comments
I've been wanting to read this one! It sounds like so much fun. Great review!
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