74. The Christmas Book Flood. Roseanna M. White. 2025. 175 pages. [Source: Library] [4 stars, historical romance, holiday romance, Christian fiction]
First sentence: The ringing of the phone quite possibly kept Tatiana Eliasdottir from getting sacked. Its shrill cry brought her jumping to her feet, and a startled look at the clock on the wall showed her that had the phone not pulled her from the sentence half written on the paper in the typewriter, she would no doubt have been late to her job.
Premise/plot: The Christmas Book Flood is set in Iceland during the Second World War, 1944, I believe.
Tatiana Eliasdottir, our heroine, is secretly a published author writing under a false name. Her editor does not know her real name or gender. But she knows him a bit better because of their correspondence AND the fact that she works in the same office. Anders Johannsson, our hero, is an editor and an artist. He fears that his family does not accept his life choices--he's not in the family business, after all.
When Tatiana's niece comes to spend the holidays AND this visit comes at a particularly busy time--a CHRISTMAS BOOK FLOOD, there are several in the office that help 'babysit' her while she's in the office...including Anders. As they begin to spend time together outside of the office it becomes clear that love is in the air....
My thoughts: I enjoyed this one. I did. It is a novella. I prefer full-length novels because it allows for more character development and more romance development. But it was an enjoyable Christmas-y read.
Quotes:
But nothing she saw in the sparsely shops looked right for Anders. Nothing said, I know you and want to know you more. Nothing said, I want this to be the beginning of forever.She'd been falling in love with him step by step, letter by letter this past year, after admiring him for years before that but deeming him unknowable.She was, without question, the only woman ever to touch his heart in a way that made him dream of forever by her side.
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