Reviewed by Sadonna
TITLE: A Lovely Plan for the Holidays
AUTHOR: Pat Henshaw
PUBLISHER: JMS Books LLC
LENGTH: 70 pages
RELEASE DATE: July 26, 2025
BLURB:
It’s July in Smallwood, Nevada. Time to try, once again, to bring the two halves of the community together to plan the town’s holiday festival.
As usual, the craftsmen and women on bar owner Wild Bill Toohey’s side want the holiday celebration to reflect the rowdy, fun-loving Gold Rush Days of the west. On the other side of town, Smallwood Inn’s Clive Pritchert and members of the Handcrafter’s Co-op see the winter holiday as a more mellow, family affair.
Longtime resident Harold “Gizzard” Ramsey thinks if he can just get Bill and Clive together to plan the yearly event, everything will be all right. Glenglory Ski Resort management thinks their event planner, Sylvia Marsden, will whip the town into shape.
Who will win in this holiday planner’s nightmare? Gizzard’s betting on love.
REVIEW:
This is a cute small town story of opposites attract.
Bill and Clive are the leaders of their respective “ends of town”. One side of town – Bill’s end where his bar does a great business – is rough and tumble and harkens back to the “wild west” vibe. Clive’s end is the “refined” end of town with an Inn that does business all year round. They appear to be opposites in most ways. But when Harold “Gizzard” Ramsey decides to put them together to work out a plan for the winter festival, they have their first reach conversation. And it turns out that they have a lot more in common than they ever thought. After an interesting dinner, they end up in a romantic relationship. One that turns out to have a few speedbumps ahead 😉 Clive and Bill need to get honest and they do.
The subplot involves a resort trying to take over the town. There is a nice twist that I wasn’t expecting that saved the story for me in fact. This is a small town sweet story that results in a bit of an instalove story of characters who missed what was right in front of them all along! Cute story and the characters had me chuckling 😉 It’s a quick story with a happy ending for all.
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