A review by mommagracereads
How My Neighbor Stole Christmas by Meghan Quinn

  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I will start this off by saying that I was hesitant to get in to this as the last MQ book I read, I really didn’t enjoy. So while I was hoping to enjoy this, I also wasn’t setting myself up for disappointment if I didn’t.

All in all, this wasn’t a bad book. Just not a great one for me. The poems starting the chapters and occasional narrator breaks took some getting used to, and I know it was intentional due to the book being 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘴-esque.

I did find the multitude of winter, Christmas, and movie themed names and puns a lot cheesy and a little bit cringey.

I pushed myself to finish this, not to the point where I was regretting reading, but more so I could finish it before the new year lol.