The Christmas Clue to Finding You

A Mistletoe Square Novella

By: Pepper Basham

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

After five years away, Piper Dawson returns home to Kedgewick Creek and is pulled into a Christmas Scavenger Hunt that resurrects a heartbreak from Christmas past she’s not quite ready to mend. Will a matchmaking granny, a little Christmas magic, and a cute guy in a kilt make all the difference to her Christmas yet-to-come?

Sweet Christmas Romance

I found the characters to be instantly lovable and their story very sweet. As with all Pepper Basham books that I have read/ listened to, there is a perfect blend of comedy, romance, and a good message mixed into the story.

Virtual voice was awful.

Virtual voice was awful. I couldn’t finish listening to the book. Story was interesting but virtual voice was too distracting.

Fun Holiday Story

Fun yet moving. Engaging story from the beginning! I don’t care for virtual voice recordings.

Love the story, but virtual voice 😖

A cute clean Christmas story from Pepper. While this is the better of the virtual voices, it did take away from the experience especially with some of the regional accent and slang usage.

All that said Pepper’s writing is excellent as always and that made a virtual voice more tolerable. I hope at some point she is able to have a human narrator in which case I will definitely purchase. For now, I’m glad it’s free.

The Virtual Reader Was Extremely Frustrating

We have recently have become enormous fans of Pepper Bashom after finishing two outstanding books. We loved Some Like It Scot and Sense and Suitability. In each of those books, the narrative was outstanding and brought the characters of the books alive. Her writing, her sense of humor, character development and storyline were stellar. Doing this novella was exhausting, as it was very difficult to follow which character was speaking. The inflections were way off base and was just a tremendous distraction from what we had hoped would have been a fun Christmas story. I would love to hear this book done by someone who could actually do the various voices and bring the story alive. The production of this virtual reading needed a tremendous amount of tweaking.