A review by softstarrynights
Love and Lies at the Village Christmas Shop by Portia MacIntosh

3.0

I was gifted this book by a friend as a Christmas Eve read, as part of a fledgling tradition. I usually try to finish it in a day so I was excited to see that this one was so short, around 230 pages or so. Love and Lies at the Village Christmas Shop is a contemporary rom-com following the owner of a year-round Christmas shop and a developer who wants to buy the land. As a fluffy romance, there's no doubt that it succeeds and MacIntosh is great at slowly building their relationship with great subtlety. I think the title makes it sound a tad more dramatic than it really is as there was definitely room for more lies and miscommunication between the protagonist and her love interest. However, as a short, fluffy, Christmas read it was an easy one to curl up with and read from the first page to the last page.