Spontaneous kisses, love at first sight, unpredictable sparks — the dreams of the hopeless romantic at heart. These things just didn’t have a place in Ama’s world…
Ama’s been baking ever since she can remember. Desserts, cakes, cookies – anything sweet, delicious and sinful.
Secretly she yearns for a different sort of passion in life though. And as she starts work on the biggest cake she has ever made – for a couple’s magical winter wedding – she realizes just how much she too dreams of falling in love.
But when Ama meets a motorcycle-riding bad boy who sets her pulse racing, she knows it can never be, because he’s her very traditional parents’ worst nightmare…
Do her family know best? Or can she trust her heart? And, as the snow begins to fall, will she ever find out what really does go into the recipe for true love?
Title: One Winter’s Day
Series: connecting story
Author: Laura Briggs
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: October 9, 2018
Publisher: Bookouture
My Rating: 3.5 stars
One Winter’s Day brings us back to the Wedding Belles – Tessa, Ana and Natalie. – as they are involved in another wedding with conflicting ideas, tensions and a bit of craziness involved.
I wish I had read One Day Like This before diving into One Winter’s Day. I feel sort of like I left a huge part of the dynamics of this group of friends and business partners on the cutting room floor because there is no indication that these are connecting/series books. (aside from the “A feel good romance” near the title – that’s not a series announcement) This is an enjoyable story, don’t get me wrong here, yet there are so many sub-plots individual story lines and events that seem to be flowing from book to book… and the next book, that dropping into the middle wouldn’t have been my plan if I had realized beforehand that these were connecting stories.
While I expected Ana to be the focus of this story, in reality all three ladies pretty much had their own story lines moved forward. The idea of meshing two vastly different cultures together to form one amazing romance is appealing – that’s not what I found. So, let me wrap this up simply. I enjoyed several parts of One Winter’s Day, there are many readers who will devour this one. I feel badly that I couldn’t connect with these ladies more, but the very open-ended conclusion that obviously leads into another book simply isn’t my personal style of reading – but it might be yours so please, form your own opinion on this one.
*I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley. That does not change what I think of this story. It is my choice to leave a review giving my personal opinion about this book.*
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