The Christmas Getaway tells a story through two POVS: Bruno
and Laura. They decide to spend Christmas in Bruno's family's holiday house,
where Bruno plans to propose.
I think the author did a good job portraying the characters'
body language and expressions, showing how they feel and what they think
instead of telling them. The writing flows, and these two are the strongest
factors of the book.
I can't decide whether this book is too short or too long,
because by the time I have read 50% of the book, readers are none the wiser
about what is going on, yet I have predicted the correct second half of the
book. Imo, it's more optimal to be a short story since the effort to hide the
character's real intentions from the readers becomes contradictory at the end.
We are in the characters' heads in their own PoV, they shouldn't be tricky with
their own actions. For example, without spoiling anything, Laura shouldn't
clean the dishes first before doing the other thing.
If it's expanded to a longer story, more plots would be
needed, but the potential is there.
4 out of 5 stars
