The Kari AnnAlysis

Everyday seems like Christmas to Caroline. She’s a beautiful, young, editor at a shopping magazine. Write what you know, right? And although Caroline has may seem to have it all, including the latest from all the top designers, she’s missing quite a bit. She is constantly fighting with her mom, her love life is extinct, minus the dimwitted football player who is fawning over her, she never knew her dad and she still can’t get over the death of her best friend.

But time may be running out for Caroline, along with her luck. The only way she can change her fate is by changing her life and her attitude. And she only has until Christmas night to make this change. In the meantime, she will be visited by three ghosts, one from the past, one from the present and one from the future.

Yes, this is a spin on the classic Christmas Carol, with a hint of Chanel, all wrapped pretty Tiffany Blue box. I have heard and seen this story several different ways since I saw the original with good ole’ Scrooge. It never fails though that I absolutely detest the main character until they go through their transformation. They are always such despicable humans, so selfish and sad. I always try to be open to people’s problems and be open to their lifestyle, but there are some characters I just hate. And in this book, Caroline was one…through most of the book!

But they always go through that amazing transformation and become characters that I can respect and love. And it did help that in this book, there were a lot of designer goodies dispersed throughout.

I am always interested reading books about women, written by men. I like seeing how men perceive women. In this book, I hated the perception of the woman, but I do know that there are women out there like Caroline. Luckily, I hope that I am nothing like her…well not the bad her at least. I wouldn’t mind being the good her

The one thing I do like about a man writing women’s books is that although they may not know a woman like a woman does, they do know men and normally have good, likeable men characters. There were several in this book that made me laugh and made me “awww”.

I listened to this on audio book and one thing I noticed when listening is that when I listen, I do a lot more chatting to myself than when I am reading a book. I’ll have a lot more on this revelation coming up in my next post about an audio book, because I could hardly listen I was talking so much!

I give A Christmas Caroline 3 bookmarks.

ISBN: 978-0061119873
Published: October 2006
Author Website
Kari got this from the library book sale