Title: Ginger Snapped
Author: Bernadette Franklin
Series: Holiday Fun #4
Rating Out of 5: 5 (I will read this again and again and again)
My Bookshelves: Christmas, Contemporary, Contemporary romance
Pace: Medium
Format: eBook, Novel
Year: 2019

As always, I absolutely adore the characters that Franklin creates. The fact that she used a fun play on words in the title, and naming of Ginger was even better. I think one of my very favourite scenes is the moment when Ginger looks her sister dead in the eye and says “Ginger Snapped”. I laughed way more than that one liner probably warranted if I’m being honest. Kace is also a really fun character who balances Ginger out beautifully – both characters that I really enjoyed getting to know.

Ginger’s sister, whilst a good way to drive the plot is an absolutely selfish moron. It is quite frankly ridiculous. But, I do love that her children are well aware of how ridiculous their parents’ actions are. And the way in which the twin girls show their displeasure is kind of, absolutely and ridiculously hilarious. Honestly, even writing this, I’m giggling out loud at how they make their father faint with their antics. Honestly, I think that they deserved more, but it was still a fun bit of comeuppance to the actual neglect that their parents put them through. And the challenges that Ginger is forced to face when they decide to just follow their whimsy.

Christmas time is stressful for everyone – probably too much commercialisation. And that’s not taking into account the fact that Ginger then has three more mouths to feed. It was a nice reminder at that time of year that sometimes Christmas isn’t about the presents and the decorations and all of the expensiveness. Rather, it’s about family and coming together. Showing your love in whatever way you can and making sure that your whole family is safe and sound. Although I loved this story, I was kind of disappointed that Ginger’s revenge didn’t actually happen. I mean, she puts all of this thought and effort into her master plan. She figures out something that will seriously mess with her sister for an extended period of time, but then she blows a gasket and just… tells her everything. All of that joy of planning and scheming, just gone down the drain. But, then, Juliette Carter was back into the story line, so that kind of made up for my disappointment.

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