BOOK REVIEW: Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews @harperperennial @mkayandrews #bluechristmas #bookreview

A cute and cozy book that will definitely help beat those winter blues! This is a read-in-an-afternoon book that definitely lifted my spirits!

About the Book

The popular Mary Kay Andrews delivers a tasty holiday treat as she brings back the winning characters from Savannah Blues and Savannah Breeze for a little Southern cheer.

It’s the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to do up her shop for the Savannah historical district window decorating contest-which she intends to win. She throws herself into putting up a Graceland/Blue Christmas motif, with lots of tinsel, an aluminum tree, and all kinds of tacky retro stuff. The project takes up so much time that Weezie is ready to shoot herself with her glue gun by the time she’s done, but the results are stunning. She’s sure she’s one-upped the owners of the trendy shop around the corner. But suddenly, things go missing from Weezie’s display, and there seems to be a mysterious midnight visitor to her shop.

Still, Weezie has high hopes for the holiday-maybe in the form of an engagement ring from her chef boyfriend. But Daniel, always moody at the holidays, seems more distant than usual.

Throw in Weezie’s decidedly odd family, a 1950s Christmas tree pin, and even a little help from the King himself, and maybe there will be a pocketful of miracles for Weezie this Christmas eve.

Reflection

Wheezie Foley is such a great character. I love hearing about her antique shop and items she finds, and about historic downtown Savannah. She’s that great mix of fierce and quirky, and the supporting characters are a lot of fun!

In Blue Christmas, Wheezie is preparing to sleigh the competition in the historic downtown Christmas decorating competition. But her new neighbors across the way are putting up quite a fight! They seem to have endless budget and no regard for the rules of the competition. But when Wheezie finds her display destroyed, her neighbors become the least of her problems.

Franticly, Wheezie starts from scratch creating a retro blue Christmas themed display in her windows. But things begin to disappear. Is someone out to sabotage her? And why is her boyfriend such a Christmas-hater? Wheezie will need to get to the bottom of it all if she wants to save Christmas!

I actually read this a few weeks after Christmas, and it was such a fun book it really was a pick me up during the long, cold month of January! Though this is a sequel, you definitely don’t need to read her other books first. This can be a standalone!

It’s a shorter book and a lot of fun! The type of book that you don’t need to take too seriously, and let’s you escape into the balmy Savannah winter for a few hours. If you love a sweet story with a side of southern charm, this is your book!

Thank you to Harper Perennial for my copy! Opinions are my own.

About the Author

Mary Kay Andrews is the pen name of American writer Kathy Hogan Trocheck, based in Atlanta, who has authored a number of best-selling books under the Andrews pen name since 2002.

Trochek graduated from the University of Georgia with a journalism degree in 1976. She worked as a reporter at a number of papers, and spent 11 years as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution before leaving to write fiction full-time in 1991. She published ten mystery novels under her own name between 1992 and 2000, and switched to the Andrews pen name in 2002 to author Savannah Blues, which marked a change in her style to more Southern-flavored themes.