About the Book
Her boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, her mother has absconded with her latest husband for the holidays, and–adding insult to (literal) injury–her London apartment has just been destroyed by a gas leak. Single, mildly concussed and temporarily homeless, Charlie realizes there’s only one place to go: Cozy Canine Cottages, where she’ll spend the season looking after her cousin Jez’s doggy day care center. And if she’s not exactly a dog person, well, no one has to know…
But her plans for a quiet Christmas in a quaint country village are quickly dashed. Peggy the pregnant beagle and Malcolm the anxious Great Dane seem determined to keep her up all night. A strange man has been casing her cousin’s house. And where is Cal, the unbearably patronizing but disturbingly handsome local vet, when she needs him?
As the days tick down to Christmas, Charlie’s life has never felt so out of control–but with some help from her new four-legged friends, she just might learn a thing or two about living in the moment, embracing the unexpected and opening herself up to love…
My Review
Mutts and Mistletoe is the perfect, cozy holiday read right before the holiday craziness really starts to kick in! I’m such a dog lover so I got a big hoot out of all the different animals that we meet in the story, and of course there is also a romance angle here that I did enjoy. I worried that the book might be a little romance-heavy for my personal taste, but there was a great balance between the animals, Charlie’s messy personal life, the quaint village she is now living in, and then the romance. I really got on with this story, and while slightly predictable at times, there was lot of good humor and heartwarming moments as well.
4.5 stars
