Book Review: Maybe This Christmas by Susannah Nix

Two best friends. Ten Christmases. One happy ending.

When best friends Alexandra and Lucas share a first kiss on Christmas night their senior year of high school, it feels like the best years of their lives are ahead of them.

Then Alex goes off to college, and Lucas stays behind to work at his dad's construction business in the small beach town where they grew up. Life, as they say, happens. And somewhere along the way these two high school sweethearts find they don't have as much in common as they once did.

Lucas's life is on Beaufort Island, and Alex is all about getting away and moving on. So he makes one of the hardest decisions of his life and lets her go.

But every year when Alex comes home for the holidays, fate conspires to reunite the two former lovebirds on Christmas Day. Year after year, through good times and bad, Lucas and Alex meet up, catch up, and reconnect on the anniversary of their first kiss.

Is it too much to hope that one year they'll find their way back to each other permanently?

Maybe even this Christmas.

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My Review:

This book put me in the mood for more of the holiday season. It’s as stressful as any dysfunctional family get-together, and just as sweet and magical as the season. In other words, it’s everything real life is, and also everything you wish it would be. I loved the care and delicacy the author handled one of the major direction changes in Alex’s life. It strikes me as being very accurate and true to life. Lucas is everything I want in the perfect book boyfriend – I just want to pull him out of the book and into my everyday life. He’s sweet and funny and loves with his whole heart. Now I’m kind of hoping we’ll get stories for the rest of their friends too. I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book from the author.