Haley is an advertising executive whose dream is to make partner at her agency. To get promoted, she must land a Christmas toy company account whose campaign is all about a traditional Christmas. However, Haley is not exactly into Christmas and usually spends the holiday on a Caribbean vacation. When she begs her boss to give her a chance, he agrees only if she attends Christmas Camp to help her find her holiday spirit. At the camp, Haley is determined not to be distracted by Jeff, the owner’s son, and is set on completing all of the Christmas tasks as soon as possible. But what happens when she finds herself drawn into the spirit of Christmas?
Christmas Camp is based on the Hallmark Christmas movie of the same name. The author of the book wrote the screenplay for Christmas Camp as well as for the Netflix movie, A Christmas Prince. If you’ve ever wanted to read a novelization of a Hallmark movie, this book is literally it.
The story was cute and magical and there is even a dog that made me smile every time he was on the page. Like all Hallmark movies, Haley and Jeff fall in love in a week and the book ends as they kiss for the first time. There was definitely some insta-love going on here, including Haley feeling a “spark” whenever they touched.
I did have to question how Haley was able to get a reservation at Christmas Camp only 1 day in advance. I would think that something like that would be sold out. Additionally, the only other people staying at Christmas Camp were a newlywed couple, a father and his two children, and a woman whose son was in the military and couldn’t be home for Christmas. So there were only 4 groups/people at the Christmas Camp? No wonder the bed and breakfast was losing money if they only have enough space for 4 reservations.
The writing in this book is not great. I thought it was fairly obvious that this was a screenplay adapted into a book. The dialogue is a bit odd in places. There were multiple times where the dialogue seemed to be filler, where it might work in a movie but it just didn’t work in a book. Also, there is so much telling and not a lot of showing. Seriously, so much telling!
This book wasn’t bad but I think it does work better as a movie and I will certainly be looking for it on the Hallmark Channel.
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