The Christmas Orphans Club
‘The Christmas Orphans Club’ by Becca Freeman
We close out our reviews for the year with a Christmas edition from one of our most prolific readers and reviewers, Lotte ❤️🙏🎄
‘Christmas time calls for Christmas reads! So, pick up ‘The Christmas Orphans Club’, get a cup of tea and get to know Hannah and Finn, and their chosen family of friends in New York.
Hannah and Finn have spent every Christmas together since college. Hannah is an orphan, and Finn disowned by his family when he came out, but Finn has gotten a job in LA and will be moving – so this Christmas has to something very, very, very special, and Hannah starts to kind of panic.
It is a story that jumps back in time to relive their Christmases together and with different POVs. It works really well and creates the right kind of holiday nostalgia that gives the book the right kind of Christmas feeling.
It is not all fun, presents, and Christmas, but also a serious story in creating your kind of family based on friends and create your own traditions with these people. The feeling of feeling ‘left over’ when everyone else returns home for Christmas, then what do you do?! Hannah and Finn create their own family, and their own Christmas traditions, and both pick up a friend along the way, so it becomes a family of four. Thus, there are also highs & lows during the years – not only Christmas gone wrong, but also fall outs in friendships and love.
The book reminded me of ‘Book Lover’ by Emily Henry in its vibe, and it is also a book that I could see being turned into another Christmas movie – but one of the good ones😉 – now get the book and cozy up for a good read.
Merry Christmas!’