Book Review: The Fake Santa Apology Tour
Book: The Fake Santa Apology Tour
Author: Julie Olivia
Thank you NetGalley and Dreamscape Select for an advanced audio copy.
The Fake Santa Apology Tour is a great small-town romance that will get you in the holiday spirit. When Birdie Mae was eleven, she had a run-in with a mall Santa Elf named Nickolas. Birdie Mae believes that day was a curse and it’s the reason she hates Christmas as an adult.
The story picks up twenty years later, and thirty-one-year-old Birdie Mae is a published author and a serial dater of Santa Clauses. She usually dates them for a short time and then moves on, only to date a new Santa next holiday season.
Birdie Mae gets stranded in a small town on her way home for Christmas and when she goes into a bar for a drink her very own Christmas curse is her bartender. I enjoyed this enemies-to-lovers scenario. Nicolas tries so hard to find out why Birdie Mae is hesitant to date him and he really does a lot to make her feel good. He makes her start the Santa apology tour where she apologizes to Santas for everything she has done in a form of therapy.
My biggest hangup with this book is simply just a “me” problem. The beginning of the book is twenty years earlier, we know Birdie Mae is eleven but we don’t know Nicolas’ age. We know he is under 18 and older than 11 but old enough to work so my guess is 15-17. So let’s just say 17 that would make him 37 during the story. He is just described as someone who looks so much older and I could not get past it.
Final score: 4/5