This is the first book I have read of Sarah Morgan's. It was very easy to read and I read it in 2 days. I found it funny, romantic and it had me wanting to find out what happened next. I would really recommend this book if you want to loose yourself for a while.

I’m not a natural romance novel lover but this really got me in the warm and fuzzies.

It’s a very enjoyable book which is relatable and well written.

Read if you want a nice read with a good Christmas feel to feel good about.

Really wonderful christmas story. Full of charm, romance, great characters, and magic settings this book will get you in the mood to put your christmas tree up early, it did me anyway. Lovely story, i would really recommend it.

Just when I think I couldn’t love Sarah Morgan’s books any more, she writes another and I prove myself wrong! I really like that she has started to include some slightly older women in her novels and Maggie is so believable! There were times reading this book that I felt she had been sitting behind me in a cafe, listening to me pouring out my problems to my best friend and taking notes - it felt like she’d written my life (with a nicer husband!!)
Rosie and Katie, the daughters in the book were great too and this story was a fascinating reflection on how people take on roles in their family that they find hard to break out of. Everyone thinks they know how the others feel and they have stopped listening - so true!
One of my favourite books by my favourite author and as usual, I can’t wait for the next one...

Aspen is the perfect winter wonderland setting for Rosie’s whirlwind Christmas wedding, but as her family start to arrive doubts start to creep in.

Rosie’s parents, Nick and Maggie, are more loved up then they have ever been, but are they trying just a little too hard?

Older sister Katie, is determined to stop the wedding, convinced that Rosie is making a huge mistake. Can she keep a level head when hunky best man Jordan keep interfering with her plans?

Emotions run high as the big day draws closer. One way or the other this will be a Christmas the White family will never forget?

I always find it strange receiving ARCs of Christmas books when still enjoying the last flourishes of summer, but Sarah Morgan has a way of transporting the reader so easily to another place. Even though I was reading on my sun lounger I could embrace the wonderfully white world she has created.

I really liked the White family as a whole straight away, their traditional Christmas plans sounded like the kind everyone wishes they could have. That is until youngest daughter, Rosie, throws a spanner in the works with her impulsive wedding plans.

Nick and Maggie were by far my favourite characters, the elaborate charade they were living made for hilarious banter and had me laughing out loud. Unfortunately, I found Katie really difficult to like. Even though she was going through a tough time I found her attitude left me with little empathy for her situation. Even towards the end of the story I still hadn’t warmed to her and I did find myself skim reading her parts, which was a shame as I was really fond of Jordan, who mostly interacted with her.

As usual with Morgan’s books I was instantly wrapped up in the romantic, yet relatable, plot lines. Always delivering exactly what the reader wants from this genre. Long time fans will love this book, and if you haven’t read anything by this author before - what are you waiting for?

This is a lovely holiday read that is aimed at different generations. there is young romance, second chances, and celebrations between 2 families. The wedding in the title takes place in Colorado on Christmas Eve and of course, the setting and the descriptions are all very romantic.

It's great to read different people's perspectives on the wedding and without spoiling it I would recommend it as an escapist read, and something to read in preparation for the festivities.

Told in the third person from the individual viewpoints of mother Maggie, and daughters Rosie and Katie White, this is a truly delightful Christmas romance.

The White family head out to Aspen to see their youngest daughter, Rosie, marry a man, Dan, they've never met, and whom Rosie has known for only a few months. Dan's widowed mother Catherine is overjoyed at the prospect of their marriage and, as a wedding planner, organises a Christmas Eve wedding for the couple.

Maggie worries that Rosie is rushing into marriage, despite having done the same thing herself with the girls' father, Nick. Maggie and Nick are currently separated, having drifted apart over the years. They haven't told the girls, and agree that a wedding is not the right time to tell them they are divorcing. Instead, they will pretend to be happily married until after the wedding.

Katie is determined that Rosie should not marry Dan. Rosie has a history of changing her mind, falling in and out of love, and Katie believes this time is no different. She flies out to Aspen to stop the wedding, whilst hiding her own secret trauma, and unsure of her future as a doctor.

This is a superb read which ticked all the boxes for me. The characters are likeably flawed, and have issues to overcome in this happy-ending Christmas story. I thought A Wedding in December was well-written, and it had me hooked within the first few pages. It was very descriptive, without being overdone, and filled me with wonderful images of the snow-bedecked resort in Aspen, and the White's country cottage in Oxford. Another winner for Ms Morgan.

Thank you to the author for the arc. I loved this book!
A family that have grown up together and started their own lives, two parents who have grown apart, an older sister who is closed off to love and a younger sister who rushes into things.
This book made me feel warm all over.
I liked how you had the perspective from the different characters in the book and how the story weaved and intertwined with each other.
An easy read that gave me a warm glow just like a roaring fire on a winter's day!

Another five star read from Morgan because yet again she has delivered a warm hearted, romantic, emotional read. How she manages to write so prolificly and consistently is a mystery, but as a huge fan of her books, I'm not complaining!

A Wedding in December is another multi view point, multi generational novel, looking at family, roles, expectations and the secrets we keep from those we love best. When Rosie phones her family to let them know she's engaged and getting married in just a few weeks in Aspen Colerado her mother, Maggie and sister Katie are not so much over joyed as overwhelmed with dismay. Rosie is ony 22, the baby of the family, famously impulsive and has always lived with dehabilitating asthma. To have her studying on the other side of the world is bad enough, but potentially living there? To say nothing of how can a girl who changes her mind every two hours make a decision on something as big as marriage in just a few months? Katie, battling with burn out as an A&E doctor is suspicious of any seemingly perfect whirlwind relationship, she knows all to well how they can turn out, and she's also trying to keep her disillusion with her careers and PTSD after a workplace incident hidden from her family. Meanwhile mother Maggie has yet to tell her daughters that she and their father have split up, and after a lifetime of devoting herself to her family, her future seems bleak instead. It doesn't help that Rosie's future mother in law has the wedding well in hand, relegating Maggie to guest.

The family head to Colarado bursting with secrets and stress. Maggie and her separated husband, Nick, have decided not to tell the girls about the separation until after the wedding, only to find their stay treated as a second honeymoon and full of romantic surprises. Meanwhile Katie clashes with Best Man Jordan who is all too aware that her interest in her future brother in law isn't wholly positive and that she's out to stop the wedding if she can. Meanwhile Rosie is wondering if she is rushing into it, but everytime she tries to voice her doubts her fiance doesn't listen. Is she making a huge mistake or should she look at her parents, still happy together after their whirlwind courtship and draw inspiration from them?

A Wedding in December is very very funny, romantic and poignant and if you don't end up googling 'tree top hotels in Aspen' after reading it then you are a stronger person than me. It's chock full of Christmassy goodness from sleigh rides to snowball fights to romantic mountain top restaurants and thr perfect read for an evening (or afterrnoon) tucked by the fire.

Morgan could read a shopping list and I’d be first in the queue! I’ve read all her books and this lives up to her previous tomes. A rushed wedding in snow-covered Aspen. A family at war with itself. A perfect read.

A lovely festive heart warming read. I’d highly recommend this book. Amazing characters, lovely story. A must read over the festive season.

Absolutely gorgeous. Morgan has done it again with this beautiful novel. I fell in love with the characters right from the word go and enjoyed every second of this book. I felt thoroughly transported into the snowy hills of Aspen, Colorado at Christmas time, with wedding bells and the cosy atmosphere of log cabins and freshly lit fires. It’s the perfect book to snuggle up with in the winter and dive into on a rainy day. The characters are so relatable with their family and individual life dramas and it’s something that probably everyone has been through or felt in their life. Words can’t express how much I love reading Morgan’s novels, and will continue to love them for a long time.

Thank you NetGalley and HQ Publishing for the ARC!

Thanks to netgalley for the chance to read this book.

What a brilliant Christmas story. Definitely recommend.

When Rosie contacts her family to say she is getting married in less than a month in Aspen her family think it’s too soon as she has only known her fiancé a couple of months. Will the wedding go ahead and will the family have the Christmas they deserve in Aspen.

A charming festive read, guaranteed to warm the cockles of your heart.

A Wedding in December follows the story of the White family and daughter Rosie’s whirlwind Christmas wedding in Colorado. She’s having second thoughts, her parents are secretly discussing divorce and her sister Katie has her own issues. Add in some hunky Americans, plenty of snow and you’ve got a fantastic Christmas read.

Thank you to NetGalley, HQ and the author for the chance to review.

Sarah Morgan has long been favourite author of mine, so I was excited to receive an ARC of her latest book. It certainly doesn’t disappoint.

This book is funny, sad (though only a little), happy and heart warming. It is about a family whose members have got stuck in certain roles in the way they relate to one another, and how they overcome this to form new relationships with each other, now that they children are all adults. It is also about romance (of course). I laughed, I cried a little, and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. I recommend it.

I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Another brilliant story by Sarah Morgan. Fans of Sarah will not be disappointed. You fall in love with all the characters, even those you think you will dislike, become beloved. Great read!!!!

Maggie White loves Christmas at home in Oxford, it’s her time of year but this year it is going to be really difficult. She and husband Nick have separated but haven’t told their daughters, Katie and Rosie. She’s received a call from youngest daughter, Rosie, telling her that after a whirlwind romance she is marrying her boyfriend Dan. This is normally a time for celebration, but not in this case. They are getting married on Christmas Eve in Aspen, Colorado. Katie, 10 years older than Rosie, is having troubles of her own, but is keeping her feelings bottled up, which isn’t helping her in her job as an A&E doctor.

The family flies out for the wedding, each with their own agenda, Maggie to pretend everything is perfect in her marriage, Katie determined to break up the happy couple, and Nick hoping to be able to keep his wife from making a fool of herself.

If you are after a nice, comfortable read, with beautifully descriptive writing, a nice interaction between all of the characters and a good old happy ending, then this is a book for you. Whilst I enjoyed it, it was slightly predictable, but it certainly made me want to go to Aspen in the snow.

I received an advance copy of this book from Netgalley and HQ publishers in exchange for an honest review.

Summer is over and autumn is beginning, rainy days (not so unusual if, like me, you live in Scotland!) and darker nights. So I curled up on the couch and spent the day engrossed in this book. As I've said before I love a good wedding story and this has the added bonus of snow and Christmas thrown in..

You would think from the title that the story is mainly about a winter wedding, in this case between Rosie and Dan, which it is but you are also told the story from the perspective of Rosie, her sister Katie and their mum Maggie each of them harbouring their own secrets, worries and insecurities.

The characters are believable and likeable and the detail throughout the book makes it easy to picture the scene. The Lodge in Aspen sounds idyllic and the family cottage in Oxford put me in mind of the cottage in the film The Holiday.

It's a heartwarming story about relationships, family and love it's emotional with the perfect balance of humour and a little sass, a perfect read for the winter months.

This was my first Sarah Morgan book but it won't be my last!

Thank you Netgalley and HQ UK for the ARC

I received an advance copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Going into A Wedding In December, I expected a frothy, light-hearted romance set in a stunning winter wonderland. The winter wonderland I got, but this book is a much more emotional, character-driven story than I was expecting; less frolicking in the snow (although there’s certainly a bit of that!) and more soul-searching chats by the fire. Which is no bad thing – Morgan has a good grasp on her characters and their emotional landscapes, and manages to introduce them to us in the first few chapters while still holding onto key secrets and making us feel that there’s more to know. Though Morgan employs tropes – the picturesque cottage in Oxford, the wintery sleigh ride, the hot best man – she manages to make them feel cosy and familiar rather than worn out or tired. Her characters, especially the members of the White family, don’t feel one-note or shallow. Even when I thought Dan, the prospective husband, and his mother, wedding planner extraordinaire Catherine, felt a little unrealistic and flat at first, toward the end of novel Morgan reveals that they too have depths and are not one hundred per cent perfect.

Though this is a romance novel, the story really revolves around the White family, and is the story of them casting off old roles and moving into new, better ones. The characters all go on a believable emotional journey and come to understand each other better, leading to a happy ending that feels earned and right. At its heart the novel is about choice, and understanding one another better. I liked that whenever the narrative brought up the question of making choices – especially in relation to Rosie’s choice to marry Dan, which is what sets the whole plot in motion – the prevailing message is that we must make our own choices and be independent to do so – but even more importantly, we must own our choices and any consequences that come of them, good or bad.

Another thing I really appreciated about this novel was that I got a very clear idea of the setting, but without really noticing that Morgan had put that image into my head. She doesn’t resort to flowery prose or belabour the point when it comes to description; she lingers just long enough to sketch the wider picture of the setting, then allows you to fill in the details by yourself. As such, I have a very clear picture in my head of Snowfall Lodge, the treehouses, and Jordan’s cabin, but without feeling like Morgan beat me over the head with overly detailed descriptions of them.

There are only a few bad things to point out in this novel. There are some conversations where the dialogue feels unnatural or stiff, especially in the middle sections of the novel and noticeably between Katie and Jordan. Some of this pair’s dialogue is snappy and witty, but then two sentences later it’s stilted and doesn’t really flow like natural speech. However, I did find that this picked up toward the end of the novel, and the important conversations that made up the climax definitely landed for me, and felt like they delivered the emotional punch they needed to.

The only other things I would point out were really nitpicks. For one, spasm is not a sexy word. It’s just not. For two, I was surprised at Katie’s line that “we call [the ER] the emergency department”, and even more surprised to learn that this wasn’t an American writer’s mistake, since Morgan is actually British. As far as I’m concerned, the emergency department of a British hospital is called A&E! But, as I said, these two are nitpicks compared to the overall quality of the story.

In conclusion, A Wedding In December a nicely done story about love, family, making hard choices and growing to become a better person. Morgan’s style in general is very readable, and I found it easy to read page on page at a time without even meaning to. A good novel to curl up with by the fire – especially for Brits dreaming of a white Christmas!

When I picked this up I wasn’t expecting for it to become one of my top reads of 2019, largely because no matter how much I love Sarah Morgan’s writing her women’s fiction and I haven’t got along particularly well, but also because 5-star reads are like hen’s teeth for me the moment. My dry spell is officially over.

“We’re getting married on Christmas Eve.”

Rosie is marrying Dan, her older sister, Katie is determined to halt proceedings whilst rubbing the best man, Jordan up the wrong way and harbouring her own secrets, and their parents, Nick and Maggie are secretly separated yet acting like love’s young dream in front of their daughters. Unsurprisingly, this is a family who have lost their way a little and between them have an entire luggage store of emotional baggage to unpack, but there’s no better place to do that the beautiful snowy backdrop of the Colorado mountains at Christmastime.

“...sometimes it’s nice not to have to fight your way through life alone.”

Heartwarming, uplifting and with moments of hilarity, A Wedding in December has reignited my love of Sarah Morgan’s work and with a more contemporary feel for me it hit all the high notes with down-to-earth, relatable, at times frustrating but loveable characters and a story which brought lighter angst and drama yet no shortage of romance and feeling. And whether the men are in their twenties, thirties or fifties, they make you melt with their charm, heart and wit.

“I never read a romance novel. Maybe if I had, I might have learned a thing or two.

I can’t tell you how happy I am that I gave this a chance and whether you’re a lover of Sarah Morgan or new to her writing, you’ll have no regrets in curling up with this, Christmas or not.