The Christmas Appeal

Santa is dead! Who is responsible? Who put Santa on the naughty list?

First off, the cover is adorable. It has a very nostalgic feel. It reminded me of old Christmas Cards.

The Fairway players are preparing for their production of Jack and the Beanstalk to raise money for the Church roof appeal. But is someone trying to stop their production??? There is talk that the fibreglass beanstalk may be full of asbestos. But the show must go on (or will it?).

This book is told in a unique fashion. It is told through email, whatsapp messages, text messages, etc. This got a little old for me after a while. There were some messages that were hard for me to read on my kindle and had to figure out how to see them better.

Overall, I enjoyed the mystery even though I wasn’t the biggest fan of how the book was told. Thankfully, this was a short book. This took me some time to get though (15 days) as I found myself picking up other books as the manner of storytelling wasn’t my favorite. I did enjoy the latter part of the book more than the first.

Fans of this type of storytelling will most likely enjoy this book more than I did. I did read The Appeal and that was a 3 star read for me as well.

Good mystery but the manner of storytelling didn’t work for me. Most are enjoying this book more than I did, so please read their reviews as well.

Thank you to Atria books and Edelweiss who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.