Christmas at the Cove

By: Victoria Connelly

Narrated by: Jan Cramer

When Millie Venning escapes to her aunt's cottage on the windswept Devon coast for Christmas, she isn't looking for romance. So when she finds a handsome stranger already at the cottage, she's baffled. Has her aunt double-booked the cottage by mistake or is she up to her match-making tricks once again?

Christmas at the Cove is a warm-hearted audiobook by the best-selling author of A Weekend with Mr Darcy and Wish You Were Here.

©2014 Victoria Connelly (P)2015 Victoria Connelly

Critic reviews

"Great fun. A real page-turner." (Andrew Davies, screenwriter of Pride and Prejudice)

"Fun, amusing and heart-warming." ( Trashionista)

"Warm-hearted, very sweet and it will charm your socks off." ( Novelicious)

Just not quite there...

Was looking forward to listening to this book. Loved the fact that it was set in England and the narrator has an English accent. But the characters did not quite win me over. Particularly Nile, who, after listening to about half the book, still did not seem to be a substantial and real person.

Sweet Christmas story

Our heroine’s aunt offers her remote cottage to a handsome doctor and his son for the holiday, meanwhile sending her single niece there, also. Matchmaking at its best.

Christmas at the Cove

Christmas at the Cove was a Christmas story with a little romance nice light and easy read could have been longer..

It Could've Been Better

While I found the characters interesting and the plot itself really sweet. . . it felt to me like there was too much left unexplored especially in regards to the emotional baggage both being carried (double for the MMC given he is a father). And with how short the story is we barely get an HEA and what it needed desperately to make it a solid HEA was an epilogue about them instead of a flashback that told us something we(the reader) already had been told. I also struggled a bit with the narrator whose voice for the MMC felt odd at times and felt too upbeat during certain solemn scenes. Beyond that it wasn't an unenjoyable listen, just not as satisfying as I thought it'd be given how much I enjoyed the premise and characters.

Boring Beyond Belief

What disappointed you about Christmas at the Cove?

The book had the perfect setting and plot: Christmas at the cottage beach house where a handsome widowed father and his son share the space with a recently broken hearted woman. Except the whole entire listen was so amazingly boring. This book was not cute, sweet, funny, endearing or charming. This book seriously needs a pulse.

Would you ever listen to anything by Victoria Connelly again?

Yes, I really did like Ms. Connelly's voice and narration style. Tis not her fault she had lifeless material to work with.