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The Twelve Days of Snowball

The Twelve Days of Snowball, October 2021
Snowball
by Kristen McKanagh

Kensington
304 pages
ISBN: 1496729927
EAN: 9781496729927
Kindle: B08RW7QL2J
Trade Size / e-Book
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"Return to the Weber Inn for the holidays with a matchmaking cat"

Fresh Fiction Review

The Twelve Days of Snowball
Kristen McKanagh

Reviewed by Clare O'Beara
Posted March 16, 2022

Romance Contemporary

Snowball is the adorable white kitten – young cat, now – who first featured in a romance last year. Now she’s returned, mischievous and matchmaking prone as ever. Miss Tilly, Snowball’s senior owner, has engaged a new inn manager, Sophie Heidt.  Sophie is about to experience a holiday season filled with THE TWELVE DAYS OF SNOWBALL. I love this story.
 
A construction firm is on site, owned by Daniel Aarons. He’s adding a new wing for guests at the Weber House Bed and Breakfast Inn. Daniel thinks the new manager is pretty but otherwise isn’t overly impressed, as she has been working in a city, and will be a fish out of water during the holiday season in the mountainous town of Braunfels. He’s behind on scheduled work due to weather issues, and the days are short. What’s more, there seem to be vandals intent on causing his business trouble. And that white cat seems to hate him. Unexpectedly Daniel and Sophie are left in charge of matters for a few hectic weeks, so they get to know each other better than they’d expected.
 
I enjoyed seeing the perspectives of the two responsible people, plus the cute cat who stars in this series. Snowball quickly decides that she can help Daniel and Sophie get together, just as she helped Emma last year. Emma is now running her own bakery and in a happy relationship. Sophie has left a plum job at the Crown Liberty Hotel to come here, and the end of a relationship was a large factor in that decision. But Sophie still yearns for bigger things. At one time I read many inspiring romances about women who moved to the big city and became successful. Nowadays the feeling seems to be that towns are every bit as rewarding and much more friendly, caring, and dare I say it, the work environment is less potentially toxic.
 
The Twelve Days of Christmas song is skillfully worked through events, even when a bit staged from time to time, after Snowball’s initial discovery of a partridge in a pear tree. Fans of seasonal goodies will also be delighted by preparations for the first Christmas Market to be held alongside the Inn. Kristen McKanagh must have had a good time writing this fun romance, which has some serious undertones. I would be happy to read a book about Snowball each year as a great way to unwind.  THE TWELVE DAYS OF SNOWBALL can quite well stand alone, but you’ll probably also be delighted by the first book, SNOWBALL’S CHRISTMAS.

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SUMMARY

Just in time for the holidays, author Kristen McKanagh gifts readers with the latest heartwarming novel featuring lovable, irresistible, mischievous feline ball of fluff, Snowball. By now, the kitten we met in Snowball’s Christmas is all grown up, greeting guests at her Victorian B&B forever home near the mountains--and sharpening her matchmaking skills…

Snowball takes her job as the “official kitty” at the Victorian B&B Inn, Weber Haus, very seriously. Greeting guests and keeping tabs on them is a full-time feline job, after all. However, being nice to Daniel Aarons is not on her to-do list. The handsome construction manager almost messed up her forever family, and she isn’t about to forgive him anytime soon…
 
But then someone new arrives at Weber Haus. Her name is Sophie Heidt—and she’s the B&B’s new manager. When Snowball goes missing on Sophie’s first day, Daniel, in charge of the new hotel wing, comes to her rescue by getting the cat to do what she does best: attack him.
 
It doesn’t take long for Snowball’s animal instincts to reveal that Daniel and Sophie are meant to be together. Unfortunately, Daniel keeps making a mess of things. It’s going to take some special insight and holiday cheer to bring them together. But if anyone can do it, Snowball can—even if she has to tolerate turtle doves, French hens, calling birds, and other fur-raising human traditions…


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