A Little Magic

Sugar Valley, Book 1

De: Lindsey Lanza

Narrado por: Shaina Summerville, Stephen Borne

Ellie Klein fled Vermont after graduating high school, and she hasn't been back since. Not to see her overbearing parents nor her distant brother, not even to visit her temperamental cat and beloved dog. And most importantly, she hasn't been back to see Theo Fox. Her first love and brother's best friend has been but a distant and painful memory for the last seven years.

When Ellie's travel site lands her back where it all began, her goal is to get in and out without seeing anyone from before. But life has other plans when she's caught in a blizzard that leaves her seeking refuge in a cabin owned by none other than the infamous Theo.

Theo Fox has been winning collegiate hockey and NHL championships since Ellie disappeared, but all he really wants is a second chance with the woman he can't stop loving. When she shows up unannounced in Vermont, he's determined to find out why she left and never returned. And if he has a little magic on his side, how to get her back.

Told over the course of nine Christmas Eves and eight nights of Hanukkah, A Little Magic is a cozy, nostalgic story of young love, finding your voice, and the complexities of what it means to be a family.

©2023 Lindsey Lanza (P)2023 Tantor

Sweet story, especially the 2nd half

I ended up really liking this, but I almost quit listening in the beginning. It was more that I didn’t live the narrators than the story itself, but it started out kind of slow, regardless. (The narration feels overly dramatized at first, especially when they’re kids. It felt more like someone was reading a bedtime story to a kid than narrating a book for adults.) I’m glad I made myself get over my issues with the narration, though, because by the end, I was really charmed by the story.

The brother is a Jackass

A Little Magic was had a duel timeline, which was a little hard to follow from time to time. The heroine has lupus and her mother was a helicopter parent to the point where the heroine felt like she couldn’t keep live. The hero’s parents died in an accident, and the heroine’s family helped him as he is best friends with the heroine’s brother. In the past, they fall in love as kids/teenagers and kept their relationship a secret. In the present, they reunite and are snowed in together, forced to face what broke them apart as they never stopped loving each other. I hate her brother, and his motives here is why this trope tends not to work for me. That’s all.

Story cute narration Meh

I had a hard time getting into this book but once I did I really enjoyed it. It is told in duel POV and duel timelines (past and present).

In this book we meet El and Theo. El has lupus and lives a protected and sheltered life. Theo is her brother’s childhood best friend. El and Theo fall for each other but once she leaves for college they have 7 years where they don’t communicate and then run into each other when she returns to where she grew up for a work assignment.

Read this book if you like
* second chance romance
* brother’s best friend
* forced proximity
* one bed

I read and listened to this book and the audio may be why I had a hard time getting into it. Maybe skip audio and just read the book.

Perfect winter read

Loved this! Such a fun read. Hooked me in from the very start. Loved the flipping between past and present.

Best story!

Loved it so much! Best story ever! Can’t wait to read more on sugar valley! So cute! 🥰