What kind of Christmas will Clara get?

Synopsis

The festive season is fast approaching but with the challenges facing Clara, it looks like being anything but the most wonderful time of the year. Can she somehow find the strength to meet those challenges head-on and find her way to the perfect, happy-ever-after Christmas?

My review

Clara is more determined than ever to go to New York and find her beloved grandmother’s sister.
Right by her side will be Rory, who has been the best of friends. Of course her feelings for Rory have not disappeared, but there are still so many reasons she cannot act upon them. Because even if things are going better at home, she cannot break what has been slowly building back together.
Will this Christmas be the moment where all the pieces of the puzzle will finally fall perfectly into place?

Rosie Green knew that while I loved the previous parts of this series, I also got a bit angry as I wanted in each book that Clara would get her happily ever after.
Being promised I would happy with this book, I had very high expectations!
Luckily for this author, by the end of the book, I was a happy Tizi!

Obviously, Clara is still that wonderful character from the previous books. She is still caring, loving, and (sometimes at a frustrating level) putting other one’s happiness before her own happiness. I understood that she finally is being real sisters with Lois, and she doesn’t want to jeopardize that. But COME ON Clara, you deserve to be happy and in love too!

I appreciated that the author showed us also another side of Clara. A side that isn’t always seeing the best in each situation. Clara turned in New York into an even more real person in my eyes. Because while she landed very hopeful, we see how slowly she starts to realize that just flying over there might have been a goose chase and I somehow saw a little light go off in her eyes… Yet that doesn’t take away that Clara even in New York manages to be juts herself and befriend new people.

Rory has changed my opinion of him through the series. While in book one I initially truly liked him, the further along I didn’t exactly dislike him, but I didn’t like him that much anymore. In Book Two he started to redeem himself, making me love him all over again.
And in this book, he stole my heart completely.

I liked it how he is the kind of man that after a failed relationship, still cares for his ex. He also shows a great patience and understanding, as it cannot be easy to hear all the time that things cannot go any further, while receiving mixed messages all the time.
And while it broke my heart, I could also understand why he decided to stop waiting… Even if I was cheering for Clara and Rory to get finally together, I comprehended that somewhere a line had to be drawn… 

But the way things wrapped up perfectly towards the end, and I am not only talking about the romance, was just wonderful.
I loved it how there were no unanswered questions left, how the end was what I was hoping for.
This amazing author shows that patience is always rewarded, no matter if it concerns a loveable character or a reader that needs the author to write a story and an ending she will love.
And just for the record: yes, I did get what I hoped for and even more!