The real trick will be deciding how much that fun is worth when it comes time to rate this. That said, it is still a lot of fun, and sometimes it can even be fun to hate something too. Now, I don’t see this getting above a three star simply because of the issues I’ve mentioned. That makes this little love duo seriously problematic. Now introduce Holly’s position in project scrooge, which, without giving too much details, gives her a position of power and knowledge over this boy. Now, introduce that 22-23 year old to a 17 year old. That could be a teacher fresh out of college. Lets address a few creepy things about all this. It seems so painfully obvious that this will be her redemption, but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Now she is falling for some hot guy, mostly just because he is hot. It is little things like that which Hand tries to have to give an artificial weight to Holly’s story, but she fails to take it to the logical extreme. I get she is a scrooge for a reason, but for christ’s sake, she’s five years older and should be five years more mature. Fast forward five years, and Holly hasn’t changed one bit. She doesn’t listen, so she is forced to work with Project Scrooge to help save souls. My problem is with the characters, the writing, and perhaps the plot (too soon to say for sure). I also just love the general Christmas Carol theme of it all. That is a delightful twist on the original tale. It begins recounting the tale of a Christmas Carol and replaces Scrooge with a young self absorbed teen. However, I don’t like a lot about this book. I am having a lot of fun I won’t lie about that. I’m feeling all sorts of ways about this one. It is a YA book and someone mentioned a love story, and I’ll be frank. I’ll admit, what I’ve heard has me worried. I don’t know much more about it going in, but I am psyched! I really hope I like this. I am a huge fan of a Christmas Carol, so when I found out there was a story that was inspired (perhaps even set in that universe) by it, I knew I had to read it.

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