Written by K L Crear
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| Published by | Crear Publishing Dec 1st 2024 |
| Genre | Women's Humorous Fiction |
| Pages | 161 |
| ASIN | B0DHS6QXMQ |
| ISBN-10 | 1068583401 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1068583407 |
Today I'm delighted to be reviewing A Christmas Caroline by K L Crear.
I recently read and reviewed The Reinvention of Lottie Potts and won the accompanying blog tour giveaway, so I now have a set of signed paperbacks in the Teapots & Tequila Shots series to read at my leisure.
As usual, I should like to begin by thanking Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for the invitation to join this blog tour and the author, K L Crear, for a free digital copy of this book to review.
The blurb:
A Christmas CarolineCaroline’s got frugality down to a fine art. She can make a tin of soup stretch for days, considers “reduced to clear” her love language, and thinks Christmas is just a daft excuse for people to throw their money away on tinsel trimmed tat.
But Christmas Eve night takes a turn when her best mate, Marlene, drops in for a chat. Lovely, right? Except Marlene’s been dead for seven years and she’s got a message for Caroline, she will be visited by three spirits and if she doesn’t pay attention, her future’s looking bleaker than the contents of her fridge freezer.
Caroline’s convinced she’s having a hallucination. Ghosts? Surely not! But as the night goes on, she starts to wonder if she might just learn something worth more than her latest discount voucher. And for someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, this might be the wake-up call she didn’t see coming.
Move over Ebenezer! This modern, laugh-out-loud retelling of the Dickens classic has a new Scrooge in town. Perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella.
I love Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol and have enjoyed the original and many reimaginings of this story, both written and in film over the years. I thought the original would be a hard act to follow but I absolutely loved A Christmas Caroline from the first paragraph and things just got better as the story progressed. I also loved the character names which give a nod to Dickens's original characters.
I found it very funny and highly entertaining, from the toilet humour to the puns and the ridiculous accidental death of Caroline's sister. I'm sorry, but I was crying with laughter before I finished that sentence.
It's 160 pages long and I read it in one day, such was its appeal. I've given this 6 stars because it really is the best story I've read this year.
I highly recommend A Christmas Caroline to readers, especially those who share my sense of humour and enjoy a Dickens reboot.
| Author Bio – K L Crear |
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 Karen (K.L. Crear) is an author, over-sharer, and walking cautionary tale. Think: a sweary teenager trapped in the body of a menopausal woman who can’t sneeze without risking a wardrobe malfunction. You’re welcome. Once upon a time, she worked in banking, the Civil Service, and property management, or as she likes to call it, The Beige Trilogy. She spent decades being respectable (ish), responsible (occasionally), and quietly losing the will to live. Then one day she found herself broke, baffled, and built entirely out of biscuit crumbs and unresolved trauma. So she did what any sensible woman would do, she wrote it all down and flogged it in paperback. Karen has battled cancer twice, and her coping strategy was to laugh at wildly inappropriate moments and shout “F*ck off!” at inspirational quotes. Spoiler: it worked. Her sense of humour is deeply questionable, but it’s kept her just about sane through grief, illness, love, lies, and the time she gave herself food poisoning with a dodgy prawn ring from Iceland. After years of procrastination (and one too many vinos), she finally swapped Pinot for a pen. She now writes jaw-dropping memoirs and hilarious women’s fiction about women who’ve had enough, snapped slightly, and are thriving in spite of it all, usually with a glass in hand, some top mates, and a solid alibi. Her hobbies include eating anything wrapped in pastry, shouting at the Real Housewives (“She’s definitely had something done - she’s melting!”), and threatening to adopt an axolotl because they look so absurdly cheerful. She once turned down hugging a sloth in Mexico, it dangles upside down, pees on itself, and honestly felt like a warning from the future. Karen lives in a sleepy Northern town with her long-suffering husband (he’s partially deaf, which helps) and their cat Pickle, who looks permanently disgusted with their life choices and the ongoing Dreamies rationing. A portion of every book sale goes to Women’s Aid, Great Ormond Street, the Epilepsy Society, and Macmillan. because she knows what it’s like to need help. The world’s a shitshow, but we can all make a little difference in our own way. |
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| Website | https://www.klcrear.com |
| Amazon Author Page | K-L-Crear/author/B0BTZ22HBD |
| @klcrear_author | |
| Facebook Author Page | K L Crear, Author |
| TikTok | @klcrear_author |
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