Winter's Wishfall
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3.7 • 7 Ratings
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
You're never too old to believe . . .
After losing her job, boyfriend and flat just a few weeks before Christmas, Ellie Lancaster makes some resolutions:
1. Exact revenge on ex.
2. Be unboring.
3. Find a job.
With #1 complete, Ellie manages to tick off #2 and #3 simultaneously by accepting a mysterious archiving job on a tiny Scottish Island that doesn't seem to exist on any map.
In the new year, her equally new bosses - celebrity baker Clementine Jones and her straight-laced twin brother Cole - introduce Ellie to the archives: a vast network of underground caverns, filled with scrolls dating back centuries, each addressed to the same person, in a multitude of languages: Dear Father Christmas . . .
Despite the strangeness of it all, Ellie quickly falls in love with her new life - but things are never simple, and just as she and Cole seem to be overcoming their mutual distrust, Ellie makes a fourth resolution - one that threatens everything she's come to hold dear. As the big day itself draws near, she has one chance to put things right and bring about her own Christmas miracle . . .
'A heart-warming, magical story, bright with festive folklore and kindness, perfect to cosy up with this winter' Sophie Anderson, author of The House with Chicken Legs and The Girl Who Speaks Bear
Customer Reviews
*Long Winded*
In a short space of time Ellie looses her job, her boyfriend and her home. She is an archivist and nothing makes her more happy than delving into the archives and organising them and translating anything that is in foreign languages
She moves in with her brother and takes over the couch feeling sorry for herself.
Things change when she accepts a job which seems to be shrouded in secrecy and the job will mean living in, it’s a tiny Scottish island with no Wi-Fi and completely cut off. Her bosses are a celeb baker Clementine Jones and her lawyer twin brother Cole, who is uptight and completely serious a contrast to his flamboyant sister with bright pink hair.
The island is only accessible by boat from the mainland and the work place is unusual as it consists of many, many caverns and scrolls that go back years. At present they need help to get on top of the work. Ellie goes through the scrolls and they consist of Christmas wishes and her job is to translate the foreign language ones and form a system. They then have form a pile of the ones they see as worthy, this does not sit well with Ellie
Now the book goes downhill for me as the book includes what the wishes are that Ellie sees but we never get to know why they are going to the island, or what they do with the wishes and the secrecy around them does not make sense to me as why they are being archived and held onto for years.
There also seems to be an extremely slow possibility of a romance which for me was like watching paint dry and Ellie makes a stand to shake things up. All this happens towards the end of the book which took an awful long time, I liked the premise. The beginning was good and the rest was just ok. I was hoping for a cosy read.