Wrapped Up in Christmas Joy by Janice Lynn ~ Book Review

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Three reasons you should read this Hallmark Christmas Romance:

Wrapped Up in Christmas Joy by Janice Lynn

About Wrapped Up in Christmas Joy by Janice Lynn

Title: Wrapped Up in Christmas Joy
Author: Janice Lynn
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Christmas

When a quilt shop owner
finds a former Marine’s journal,
she longs to heal his heart…

When Sophie Davis sorts through a box of donated books to her church, she’s surprised to discover a soldier’s journal. As the daughter of a veteran who watched her father struggle over the years, she feels a deep connection to the man who wrote the emotional entries.

Former Marine Cole Aaron battled to find peace after returning to civilian life. He’s always needed to protect others. Now, fighting fires in Pine Hill, Kentucky helps him put out the demons within him. When Sophie shows up at the fire hall with his journal from when he’d first returned stateside, Cole can’t believe it was in the box he’d donated. Not wanting to face painful memories, he tells her to trash it.

Sophie and Cole are drawn together as they both volunteer for their community, but it’s hard for Cole to let down his guard, and he doesn’t need anyone’s pity. After all he’s been through in the past, can he find faith in a more hopeful future…one touched by joy?

This heartwarming romance includes a free Hallmark original recipe for Dilly Duchess Potatoes.

My Review of Wrapped Up in Christmas Joy:

Wrapped Up in Christmas Joy by Janice Lynn was a very holiday romance. If you love Christmas, then you’ll get plenty of it here. It screams holiday madness from every page.

Sophie Davis LOVES Christmas. And this year, she’s determined to make the life of Cole Aaron fuller. She knows things about him that no one else does. Because she read his journal. She had good intentions, but it still bothered me the entire book. Why didn’t she check out the rest of the box it was in before she read all of it?

Cole is understandably upset when he finds out Sophie read his journal. And it was a journal of some pretty dark moments and thoughts in his life. But he’s way too much of a jerk about it too. In fact, he’s kind of a jerk about Christmas in general. Taking part in town events as his civic duty instead of because he wants to.

Sophie and Cole circle each other throughout the entire book. It’s very on-again, off-again – mostly on Cole’s side. He ran hot and cold, and it switched within a second. Sophie is a saint to have not given up on him. But they make a wonderful couple. They balance each other out.

The highlight of the book for me was Sophie’s quilting. I’ve always admired the creativity and craft that goes into making a quilt. And Sophie does such wonderful things with hers. Her dedication to making others’ lives better was amazing. It was really my favorite part of the book.

**I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book**