Maybe Next Christmas book review

Last year I read This Christmas by Emma Heatherington and really enjoyed it, I found it to be a really fun Christmas romance so when I heard Emma Heatherington was releasing another Christmas book this year I knew that I definitely wanted to read it and see if she is an author who becomes one I turn to for every Christmas.

Maybe Next Christmas follows Bea and Ollie who meet when their plane back home to Ireland for Christmas is delayed but after the flight they leave as strangers until they bump into each other in London months later sparking a chain of events that neither could have predicted last Christmas.

As I’ve already mentioned I have previously read an Emma Heatherington Christmas book so kind of knew what to expect from this with the writing and characters going into it and it didn’t disappoint. I really enjoyed the writing and getting to know these two characters with their different points of views and past experiences. Emma creates a really magical cosy setting that you want to visit and want to keep reading from and she also manages to have you really root for the characters throughout the story no matter the situations that they found themselves in. Once I was hooked I couldn’t stop reading desperate to know how things were going to go for Bea and Ollie by the end of the book because there wasn’t always a clear ending to be expected.

Even though this book spans an entire year it continues to have that cosy feeling that you expect from a festive book and still feels perfect for the season. Bea and Ollie were both well developed characters who both had lots going on in their lives that didn’t feel like it was just there for the plot which I definitely liked and really helped to develop how invested you were in the story and what was going to happen to the characters.

Overall I found this to be exactly what I wanted from an Emma Heatherington Christmas book that I was truly invested in wanting to know where everything was going to go. The setting was perfect, and it had a great cosy vibe with characters I truly rooted for so it was an easy 4.25 star read and I look forward to seeing if Emma Heatherington releases any more Christmas books in future years.

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