Monday, December 7, 2020

Don't Let It Snow in Deadwood by Ann Charles [Review]

Don't Let It Snow in Deadwood by Ann Charles
Don't Let It Snow in Deadwood (Deadwood #10) by Ann Charles
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: December 4, 2019

Deadwood
1. Nearly Departed in Deadwood
2. Optical Delusions in Deadwood
3. Dead Case in Deadwood
4. Better Off Dead in Deadwood
5. An Ex to Grind in Deadwood
6. Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood
7. A Wild Fright in Deadwood
8. Rattling the Heat in Deadwood
9. Gone Haunting in Deadwood
10. Don't Let It Snow in DeadwoodPaperback | Kindle
11. Devil Days in Deadwood
12. Never Say Sever in Deadwood

Ann Charles
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
It’s Christmas Eve and Violet Parker has one request on her list for Santa—to make it home to her kids. Unfortunately, “home” is also the lair of her life-long nemesis, her sister Susan (aka the devil’s concubine).

Standing in Violet’s way is Old Man Winter, who slammed the Black Hills with a show-stopping blizzard. However, a little snow isn’t going to ground her sleigh, not with family counting on her to deliver Santa’s goods.

Trying to keep Christmas from turning into a candy cane calamity, Violet battles her demons and struggles through the chaos storming around her.

Can she make it through the holiday without cracking anyone’s nut?

"Keep your fingers crossed this whole holiday doesn't blow up in our faces." --Violet Parker
Thoughts on Don't Let it Snow in Deadwood: Snow, man. It can nearly keep you from the place you most want to be when it's hitting blizzard like conditions and you haven't left on your Christmas Eve journey AND it can keep you cooped up with the bane of your existence (we're talking bane of both childhood and adulthood, here) when that blizzard hits and traps you at the family homestead.

Yeah. Violet's got a lot on her plate. Besides being big hearted and inviting all her friends to join the family festivities because she doesn't want them to be alone over the holiday, she has her sister to worry about. Her sister who's known for stealing her boyfriends. Did I mention that Doc is going to be meeting her for the first time? Yeah. A lot on her plate.

On the plus side, she's surrounded by friends and family and (most) of them are well aware of her sister's viper-like proclivities. Also on the plus side, she's forcing a few of said friends and family to confront lingering feelings and (maybe?) this will help them figure things out. Maybe. May.Be.

There might not be any demons or ghosties to do literal battle with, but wading through all the family together time is more than enough this time around. And, HELLO SUSAN, YOU GOT A BUCKET OF CRAZY YOU'RE CARRYING AROUND LIKE IT'S NO BIG DEAL, DON'T YOU? Yeah, Susan knows how to bring a party to a screeching halt. A screeching halt.

A little family, a lot of friends, and some snowman decapitation. Because it wouldn't be the holidays without mayhem and dismemberment. (Maybe that last part isn't true.)

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