Review of A Christmas by the Sea

Title:  A Christmas by the Sea

Author: Melody Carlson

Chapters: 14

Pages: 169

Genre: Christmas

Rating: 3.5 stars

A Christmas by the Sea is the new Christmas Story by Melody Carlson.  Widowed single mom Wendy Harper finds out that she has inherited a beach cottage in Maine. Her plan is to move to Maine temporarily with her son Jackson in order to get the house ready to be sold. Jackson has other plans he wants to make Maine their new home.   He starts by in rolling himself in the local school.  And in some ways he gets help from Caleb Colton in trying to get his mom to stay.   

What's a single mom and a local craftsman supposed to do when you’re dealing with a 12-year-old matchmaker? Well what follows is a sweet Christmas story about finding where you belong and that sometimes the plans you made aren't the ones that end up following.  That sometimes you go looking for something, but end up finding something so much better.    

Melody Carlson's Christmas stories tend to be lite on the romance, but heavy on the sweet. And more often than not there's always some kind of pet.  And in this book it was a loveable stray dog. 

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.