Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews #bookreview #contemporary #romance #holiday #Christmas

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Title: Bright Lights, Big Christmas

Author:  Mary Kay Andrews

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Publication Date: ‎ Sept 26, 2023

Page Count:  289

My rating: 4 stars

About the book:

From Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Homewreckers and The Santa Suit, comes a novella celebrating love and the warm, glittering charm of the holiday season.

When fall rolls around, it’s time for Kerry Tolliver to leave her family’s Christmas tree farm in the mountains of North Carolina for the wilds of New York City to help her gruff older brother & his dog, Queenie, sell the trees at the family stand on a corner in Greenwich Village. Sharing a tiny vintage camper and experiencing Manhattan for the first time, Kerry’s ready to try to carve out a new corner for herself.

In the weeks leading into Christmas, Kerry quickly becomes close with the charming neighbors who live near their stand. When an elderly neighbor goes missing, Kerry will need to combine her country know-how with her newly acquired New York knowledge to protect the new friends she’s come to think of as family,

And complicating everything is Patrick, a single dad raising his adorable, dragon-loving son Austin on this quirky block. Kerry and Patrick’s chemistry is undeniable, but what chance does this holiday romance really have?

Filled with family ties, both rekindled and new, and sparkling with Christmas magic, BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CHRISTMAS delivers everything Mary Kay Andrews fans adore, all tied up in a hilarious, romantic gem of a novel.

Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews is a contemporary romance novel that is of course set during the Christmas holiday season. The story in Bright Lights, Big Christmas is one that deals with family and those expectations along with finding oneself and finding romance along the way.

Kerry Tolliver has grown up helping with her family’s Christmas tree farm in the mountains of North Carolina. Every year the family makes a trip to New York selling the Christmas trees in the heart of the city with Kerry’s father and brother usually the ones making the trip. This year however Kerry has been asked to step into help with the sales.

Traveling all the way to New York with her brother to stay in a vintage camper on a corner in Greenwich Village where they have set up shop every year is really out of Kerry’s element but she vows to do her best to help. Over the course of a few weeks while working Kerry finds herself enjoying the surrounding neighbors and all the activity experiencing Manhattan for the first time despite the obstacles Kerry and her brother find with the business along the way.

Mary Kay Andrews is an author I’ve read many times before and always find myself recommending and Bright Lights, Big Christmas is no exception. I spotted the camper on this one and thought travel so was a little surprised the ‘camping’ was in the big city but it made for a rather interesting setting when diving into the story. The characters were great getting to know them as well and I couldn’t help but root for their happy ending. Definitely will continue to pick up this author any new chance I get!

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

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About the author:

Mary Kay Andrews is The New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Cookbook and more than twenty novels, including The Weekenders, Ladies’ Night, Spring Fever, Summer Rental, The Fixer Upper, Deep Dish, Blue Christmas, Savannah Breeze, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies, and Savannah Blues. A former journalist for The Atlanta Journal Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.