This is my 1st book by Jaime but wont be my last! Sasha feels she is a disappointment to her Father. He has been distant during her childhood years. When he rings unexpectedly shortly before Christmas to tell her he has had a heart attack and needs her help running a reindeer sanctuary near the North Pole she flies out the next day. Her intention is to help him sell up and return to live with her in the UK. Sasha has not enjoyed Christmases in her past and is shocked to find a deserted Santa themed resort also owned by her Father. With the magic of reindeer, snow, the Northern Lights and a developing romance her life begins to change for the better. I loved this story and highly recommend it to be read at any time of year.

Jaimie Admans is the queen of heartwarming romance!

This story will get under your skin and leave you feeling utterly magical.

Sasha lost her mother when she was young and her father has since been off on numerous adventures, never quite making it home for Christmas. Until this year, when he calls Sasha to ask for her help.

Little does Sasha know that her whole world is about to be turned upside down as she attempts to reconnect with her father and also to under Tav, her father’s employee.

The story of Sasha and Tav is beautiful and uplifting. It reminds us of the importance of letting people in and taking risks.

A heart warming, magical tale.

I would like to thank NetGalley, HQ Digital and Jaimie Admans for the E Arc of this book.
Sasha hates Christmas, she used to love it but after the death of her mother it has lost its magic. She sporadically hears from her father, so when she receives a phone call from him says he needs her help, she drops everything and travels to Norway to be with him. What she finds is her father being Santa in a Lapland style Christmas Village that has seen better days and is in need of a lot of work. As Sasha gets to know more about her father’s involvement in the village, as well as Taavi (who collected her from the airport in a dog sleigh), she is more certain that the best thing for her father is to come home to the UK. What she doesn’t expect is to be drawn in by bags of letters to Santa that melt her heart and make her want to help. As she helps, she starts to regain her love of Christmas.
This was a delightfully written book, with a Christmas village that you would want to visit, explore and stay at. The characters were well written, made you feel you knew them and the pace of the story was good.
I can see readers cosied up at Christmas immersing themselves in this story. Would definitely recommend.

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC for an exchange of an honest review.

Sweet and fun story. Great read.

A very cute Christmas romance set almost at the North Pole! There is a reindeer sanctuary, candy cane cottages and a dad that Ho Ho
Hos his way through conversations whilst wearing braces and stripey socks. The romance between Tav and Sacha is nicely built up with the emotional scars slowly exposed but not made into a huge deal, just part of their growing closeness. The obligatory almost break up before the happy ever after was predictable but still perfectly well managed!
There was a bit too much ‘magic of Christmas’ for me if that doesn’t make me a grinch. Mistletoe and Rudolph but real elves and wishes just crossed my line.

A fabulous festive read guaranteed to put you in the Christmas mood! I really enjoyed The Little Christmas Shop on Nutcracker Lane so was excited to read this one, and it did not disappoint. Cosy, festive and heartwarming!

This is a lovely, feel good story which has totally put me in the mood for Christmas, it makes Norway sound wonderful and really magical, a tale of someone who has fell out with Christmas then with the help of her Dad becomes a believer again. First book by this author and It Definetly won’t be my last. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this copy for my unbiased review.

Sasha hates Christmas. She has spent it alone for several years. Her mother is dead and her father seems to never be able to make it back to England to share the holiday.

Now she has received a phone call from her father. He had a heat attack, he is in Norway and he needs her help.

Sasha never travels, but she hops on a plane (actually several planes) and she arrives in Norway, north of the Arctic Circle.

In the airport, she is met by a Norwegian giant (he is 6’ 7”), Tav, who barely speaks. But, Sasha does understand that they will not be riding in an automobile. Tav has a dog sled and that is how they will travel to meet her father.

This is a fun story. There are some slow spots, but it is a wonderful plot populated by lovely characters.

Sasha’s father has purchased The North Pole Forest. He is Santa Claus for children. And he is not quite as weak as he sounded on the phone. The place is in need of money. There are not enough visitors. That means there are many things to be done and no staff to do them.

Sasha starts talking immediately about selling up and both she and her father returning to England. Life does not always go as expected.

The longer she is there, the more she learns to love everything about the place. There are reindeer. Tav has a reindeer rescue. There is a wonderful woman who delivers the mail.

Most of all there are the letters from the children. Some of them are simply a list of things they want Santa to bring. But, many of them are much more important than a list of things. Sasha begins to read and answer them. She also learns to love the location, the reindeer and Tav.

All the while, Tav is explaining to Sasha that there is a magic to Christmas. There are elves who make magic for people. There are miracles that happen at Christmas. Most of all, there is love all around at Christmas. One simply has to look for the magic and the love.

Sasha learns what we all need to learn. There is magic at Christmas. And if we look for it, there is magic every day of the year. There are people who provide love and that is where the magic is.

I loved this book. I am a fan of Ms.Admans. She writes wonderful stories. This is one of them.

I received this book from the publisher through NetGalley. I am voluntarily writing this review and all opinions are completely my own.

Perfect - relationships, romance and Christmas. The recipe for my ideal light read and I really enjoyed this one

Oh this is a book that just fully tugged at my heart strings.

The setting, the time of year and the all consuming romance.

Perfect festive reading.

I cannot fault Admans' writing, simple yet effective.

Finding myself smiling a lot as I read.

The letters from the children utterly genius (and hilarious).

There's a great balance of emotions contained within the pages and I believe you'd be hard pressed to finish this book without feeling just a little bit of love in your bones.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for an early review copy.

Sasha doesn’t like Christmas. It was her favourite time of year, but since her mother passed away, for her, it’s lost the magic.

Then, she receives a phone call, from her father, whose a bit odd, after which, she’s cleaning the dust off her snow boots.
Her father’s running a Christmas village, Lapland style, in Norway, he’s also been advised to take things easy after suffering a heart attack.
Sasha wants so much to reconnect with her dad, as he’s never been around, that she books the next flight out there. Having never been anywhere, this is her first time on a plane and that too to the Arctic Circle.
At the airport, Taavi comes to collect her, their mode of transport is a sleigh ride through the snow, the Northern Lights guiding them.
Uncovering sack loads of mail unopened - they are letters from children and adults to Santa from everywhere in the world, Sasha understands that she can send some magic back by replying to some of the letters.

Will Sasha with Taavi’s help regain the excitement she used to feel about Christmas and find love or is the magic for her, gone for good………

Recommend It

would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this quaint little book

always a big lover of things to do with christmas and this book hits the spot...in fact if i could work here i would, it just sounds so magical

sasha isnt a big fan of christmas since her mom died and her dad just went off and never came back..but on this fateful day she takes a phone call that is about to change her life...

and so the magic begins.....

my first book by this author and it wont be my last..

Thanks to HQ, HQ Digital and Netgalley for an advance copy of this book in exchange for a review.

What a wonderful Christmas tale set in the North Pole Forest in Norway and the story of non believer Sasha who answers an SOS call from her Dad - who just happens to be Santa....

Perfect Christmas book.

Having enjoyed The Little Bookshop of Love Stories and The Little Christmas Shop on Nutcracker Lane, I looked forward to reading this book.
Another very festive book, reminding us how the traditions of Christmas are more important than the material gifts etc.
Loved the reindeer, the Northern Lights, the helping children after their letters arrived - a reminder of the message of Christmas.

A lovely Christmas read - it captured the beauty of Norway and the magic of Christmas. We soon forgot that even if you don't believe it can be magical and you can find love when you're not looking for it and don't feel you deserve it.

If you're lacking in Christmas spirit this year just read this book. You won't be long in finding it. Another wonderful read by Jaimie Admans. I was laughing our loud one minute and had tears in my eyes the next. Jaimie has a great way of telling a story that is both unbelievably sweet but also quite heartbreaking. Her books really would make brilliant movies. Also being a similar age to Sasha made her so relatable. I loved her. A definite worthy festive read for 2021.

What a fun, festive read! I immediately fell in love with the author's style and the feelings she was able to emote from the beginning. The story centers on Sasha, who since she was little, hates Christmas and has lost the Christmas spirit. When she was ten, her parents were involved in a car accident - her mother was killed, her father lived. Instead of coming home to care for his daughter, he decides to run off traveling, looking for the next great adventure. Sasha lives with her grandma from then on - who never put in the same effort that her parents did around the holidays, not that it would have mattered anyway as Christmas had lost all appeal. One night, Sasha answers the phone and its her father, saying he's in Norway and he desperately needs her help at the North Pole Forest and Reindeer Sanctuary, though the Sanctuary is a separate business. To pretty much everyone's surprise, and more so Sasha's, she makes the harrowing journey all the way to the arctic circle to help her father. Maybe things will be better this time? It's been a long time since the two of them were together for Christmas, maybe the North Pole Forest is just what they need.

The story is sweet, magical, lovely and there's even the occasional adventure. It was such a joyous journey to follow Sasha, her father and Tav, the man that helps out around the property on their journeys to rediscovering what it really means to be family, and what it's like to let the magic of Christmas back into their hearts. I had never read anything by Jaimie Admans before and this certainly will not be my last.

A feel good Christmas story where lives are mended and put back on track in the surroundings of The North Pole Forest. Sasha hates Christmas and out of duty flies off to see her estranged father where he lives out a life as Santa Claus with his helper Tav in a Christmas village that is disintegrating around them. The magic of the village and its well described surroundings could be the catalyst in mending the broken people .
A little on the predictable side but enjoyable

"I feel like Alice after she drank the potion and followed the white rabbit.' Thus begins Sasha's journey far up inside the Arctic Circle of Norway. Northern Lights, a seemingly true North Pole, and is her father really Santa Claus? Admans is able to seamlessly blend the irrational into romance, mystery, and a little bit of adventure with every single story, and this is no exception. Tav and Sasha must overcome a few things and see what happens next for Santa and his elves!

Dear Father Christmas
For Christmas, I would love to go out into the snowy wilderness of Norwegian North Pole.
From Helen

This is the spirit of Christmas captured in a book. It is warm and cosy like a big woollen Christmas hug.
Sasha lives in the UK. Christmas used to be her favourite time of year until her mother was tragically killed in a car accident. She went to live her with maternal grandmother and her father went on exciting trips around the world. Her father always promised to be home for Christmas but never quite made it. After loosing her grandmother, Christmas became a lonely time.
She has a passport but has never used it preferring a box set on Netflix.
Already dreading Christmas, Sasha looses her job as a dog groomer when she gets a phone call from her father saying he has had a heart attack and needs her help…….at a Reindeer sanctuary in Norwegian North Pole. Sasha agrees to go on the understanding that her father returns to Britain with her.
She flys to a remote airport in snowy Norway and the magic begins,
She is first of all picked up by husky sled. The thrill perfectly described even if it does miss out the whiff you get downwind from the huskies (I’ve husky sled and it is my favourite way to travel, but there is a bit of a whiff).
Where her father lives is more than just a reindeer sanctuary, it is a Christmas themed village complete with post boxes and a post office. It is in a state of disrepair and visitors are thin on the ground.
Her father now playing a perfect Father Christmas and his only employee tall dark and handsome Taavi.
Sasha falls in love. She falls in love with the wilderness, the reindeer and the Northern Lights. She falls in love with the letters that children write to Santa. Not those with long lists of toys, but those that are heartfelt. She falls in love with the magic of Nisse and the the story of Frigya. All of which are perfectly described that conjures pictures in your imagination. The final piece of magic is falling in love with Taavi.
Will she ever want to leave?

A pleasant read and I shall definitely look out for Jaimie Admans again.
With thanks to the publisher and #NetGalley for the preview read #PostBoxattheNorthPole.
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