Title: A Christmas Caroline
Author: Camilla Isley
Date: 2021
Publisher: Pink Blom
Quote: "And yet...my sister looks so happy...I can't help but wonder if that could've been me if I'd stayed with Sam and we'd had kids."
Ooohhh, poor Caroline. She's turning into Scrooge because she didn't want to have a whole bunch of babies. She will be haunted by the Ghost of Christmas That Could Have Been until she tracks down her ex-boyfriend and starts working on half a dozen.
It's a romantic comedy, it doesn't have to make sense, but I would've liked this one a lot better if Caroline had un-Scrooged herself by cleaning up her business's ethics and being a better aunt. Or maybe stepmother, as ex-boyfriend could so easily have enabled another woman to die in childbirth. The joy of infant company is available to all of us even if we earn the special crown in Heaven for abstaining from adding to the existing human overpopulation.
On the other hand, it's Camilla Isley so you know it's going to be witty and fun to read. And it'll certainly validate the choices of women who've already run down to babies.
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