Monday, February 17, 2025

*Review* A Wish For Christmas by Courtney Cole


 Genre: Holiday Romance
Published: November 14, 2023
Pages: 360


In this heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Courtney Cole, an unhappily married couple makes a wish on an enchanted snow globe that they had never met, but when they wake up the next day in separate lives, the magic of Christmas helps them to realize that some love is just meant to be. 

Two weeks ’til Christmas…

Noel Blake is not in a great place. After several years of marriage, she and her husband Jonah are quietly drifting apart. The only time they really talk at all anymore is when they walk their dog, Elliott. And even then it usually ends in bickering.

When, one snowy day, Elliott manages to slip his leash, they find him blocks away in the care of a mysterious old man who asks them to make a wish on an old snow globe. Eager to get their dog safely home, they agree to his strange request. Neither one realizes that the wish they’re about to make will change the course of their lives... possibly forever.

When Noel and Jonah wake up the next morning, they’re in separate beds, separate apartments, separate lives. But are they any happier? As they live the existences they’d always wished for, both feel that something very important is missing. And when a chance encounter brings the pair back together, they find they have a spark of something very special.

Will they be able to find their way back to each other before it’s too late, or does the Christmas Magic have another fate in store?


I received a copy of this book through Netgalley. This is my honest review. 

The basic plot of this story had a Trading Mom vibe to it. Noel and Jonah both wish their lives were different, thinking they'd be happier if they never married. But much like the children who have wished their mother away, they start to feel like something very important to them is missing. Of course it would take a holiday miracle for them to figure out what that is. 

I enjoyed the basic premise of the story, but never felt fully invested in either characters' life. I just didn't care all that much about whether or not they'd get back together. And both characters had personality traits that I just did not like at all. But the book was an easy, lighthearted holiday read. 

Overall I give A Wish For Christmas 3.2783 out of 5 stars. - Katie 




Courtney Cole is a New York Times bestselling author of over twenty novels. She enjoys eating reader emotions for breakfast, wearing cashmere socks (when she’s not barefoot) and collecting hula girls.

An optimist, Pacman champion, trophy wife, and fierce mama, her motto is to live with grace. She believes in the power of blonde hair dye and red lipstick, and feels that a well-timed smile can change the world.

To learn more about her, visit www.courtneycolecreates.com

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