#BlogTour: All I Want For Christmas by Karen Swan @chlodavies97 @panmacmillan @KarenSwan1 #AllIWantForChristmas #KarenSwan #FestiveRead

Book Synopsis:

Three first dates and an art-world mystery – it’s going to be a busy Christmas for Darcy. All I Want for Christmas is a cosy winter romance from Karen Swan, author of Christmas By Candlelight.

Can she find love this Christmas?

Christmas in Copenhagen is a magical time of year but Darcy Cotterell isn’t feeling festive. Newly single, again, she’s not even going home for Christmas. Instead she will be spending her holiday finishing her art history PhD. Her best friend, Freja, has other ideas. She signs Darcy up to a dating app, determined that she won’t be lonely this Christmas.

Darcy agrees to three dates – but her mind is on work, not play: an unknown portrait by Denmark’s greatest painter has been found and she is tasked with identifying the woman in the painting. During her research, she encounters sexy, arrogant lawyer Max Lorensen – who happens to be bachelor number one! The attraction is instant but, knowing they must work together, they abandon the match. Or try to. But their feelings are undeniable – until Darcy discovers Max has an agenda . . .

My Review:

All I Want For Christmas is a gorgeously festive, absorbing book which is perfect for reading this festive season.

Firstly having grown up in Germany I’ve always loved how European cities look at Christmas and especially the wonderful Christmas markets they have there so this book instantly appealed to me. The author has done a great job of creating some fantastic characters who I enjoyed getting to know throughout the book. My favourite characters were definitely Darcy and her fabulous best friend Freya. I loved how real Darcy seemed and how, even though I really liked her as a character, I also found her incredibly frustrating at times.

I thought this book had two storylines running through it. One was the slow burn romance between Darcy and Max which was fun watching develop. I wasn’t too sure about Max to begin with and my opinion kept changing as the story went on. I liked that the author wasn’t scared to play with the readers emotions and that a happy ending wasn’t necessarily guaranteed. The other part of the story was a mystery surrounding a lost painting which I found fascinating to follow, particularly as I enjoyed learning about the history behind the artwork.

Overall, as you can probably guess, I really enjoyed this book and I’d definitely recommend it to anyone wanting a great festive read. There were a lot of surprising twists that kept me guessing and I loved watching the two storylines slowly reach a satisfying conclusion.

Huge thanks to Chloe from Pan Macmillan for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book.

About The Author:

Karen Swan is the Sunday Times Top Three and international best-selling author. Her novels sell all over the world and she writes two books each year – one for the summer period and one for the Christmas season. Her books are known for their evocative locations and Karen sees travel as vital research for each story. She loves to set deep, complicated love stories within twisting plots.

The Last Summer is the first book in her five-book historical series called The Wild Isle Girls, set around the dramatic evacuation of the Scottish island St Kilda in the summer of 1930. It was partly inspired by Karen’s Scottish roots: her father’s family came from Skye, moving to Fort William where Karen was christened and where many of her family still live. Her childhood memories are full of Christmases, Hogmanay and summer holidays spent in the Highlands and she was married there in 2001.

She lives in Sussex with her husband, three children and two dogs.

Visit Karen’s author page on Instagram @swannywrites, Facebook, and Twitter @KarenSwan1.