Hear Them Ring: A Christmas Novella Collection by Erynn Mangum Review

 Hello Everyone :)

I pray today finds you all doing well, and I want to thank you all for joining me for another book review here on The Preppy Book Princess.

You may think it's a little strange that I'm sharing a Christmas book review with you all during the middle of April, but I have to say that it seemed like a perfectly fitting time to do so.

See our area got a huge snowstorm last night, and my yard currently looks like it's already for Christmas to come around again.

My mom and I had appointments in the city yesterday, and neither one of us was expecting to have drive home in the middle of snow flurries. Spring around here can bring with it some crazy circumstances I tell ya.

But anyways, long winded intro aside, let's dive right into today's review. 

Today's review is going to be of a fun, Christmas themed novella collection from one of my recently discovered favorite authors, and I can't wait to tell you all about it.

Keep reading below for my full review.

Hear Them Ring: A Christmas Novella Collection by Erynn Mangum:

Source: Library

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Forum

Publication Date: November 26th, 2017

Genre: Christian Fiction/Contemporary/Christmas Read/Chick Lit

Synopsis:

Light the fire, grab a cup of hot chocolate and snuggle down for this collection of Christmas novellas!
In The Christmas Watch, Lindsey works as a florist and waits for her special someone under the tree. Is Marcus the one? And if he is, why is her childhood best friend acting so weird?
In Merry and Bright, Kelly can’t wait to bring her new fiancé home for Christmas, but when he breaks up with her the night before they are supposed to leave, she is devastated. Her co-worker offers to carpool with her home, but when a huge snowstorm hits, Kelly realizes God might have different plans than she thought. In My Revised Christmas List, nurse student Chloe is too busy to sleep, much less look for love. In the middle of finals, working at a diner and trying to earn enough money to keep her apartment, could it be that love was just around the corner this whole time?
And in O Christmas Bree, Bree has worked at her family’s Christmas tree farm for her entire life and yet feels like she still doesn’t know her place in the world. When her dad gets sick right as the selling season starts, it’s up to Bree to keep things going. Does God have a plan even in the midst of the insanity?

(synopsis from goodreads)

My Review:

Merry and Bright is a delightful Christmas novella collection that I never wanted to see come to an end. Over the last few months, Erynn Mangum has definitely become a new favorite author of mine, and I was looking forward to seeing how she'd tackle novella length stories. I rarely give novellas five stars, as usually I find they're not quite developed enough to merit me doing so. However, this heartwarming collection of four titles was everything I could have possibly wanted, and I breezed through each of the stories in practically no time at all.

Erynn's writing is always fun and immersive, and I loved how each of these stories gave me a case of the warm fuzzies. My favorite of all was the first story, The Christmas Watch, but each story had it's own individual merits, and I loved how strong the faith message was in each one. Each main character definitely depends on her faith to help her through tough situations, and that made each of them even more relatable in my opinion.

My only complaint with the entire collection, would be the fact that I find after reading so many of Erynn's novels that her MC's kind of sound exactly the same, and it's often hard to distinguish one from the other. They're all lovely characters; they just don't have much originality from one to the next.

Overall though, this one was definitely a win win for me, and I will most definitely be purchasing my own copy of it (I ended up just borrowing it from the library) as I can foresee myself wanting to reread this during each and every holiday season in the years to come.

Final Rating: 5/5.

I can't recommend this one enough, and I'm looking forward to checking out Erynn's other novella collection in the near future.

Thanks so much for reading guys! Have a great rest of your day :)

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