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Karen Schaler

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Seattle, Washington, USA
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Screenwriter
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Journalist TV Correspondent & Host
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Three-Time Emmy Award-Winner
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Karen Schaler is a three-time Emmy Award-winning storyteller, author, screenwriter, journalist, and national TV host. She writes Christmas movies for Netflix, Hallmark, and Lifetime, including the Netflix, hit A Christmas Prince. For her Hallmark movie Christmas Camp, she also wrote the novel and is the creator of real-life immersive Christmas Camp experiences worldwide, where everyone is invited! All of Karen’s stories are uplifting, filled with heart and hope. For more www.karenschaler.com

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This latest offering by the author known as "Christmas Karen" tells the story of a contemporary version of "A Christmas Carol," the Christmas classic by Dickens. Alexis has become a successful businesswoman, at the expense of her own well-being and personal life. She treats her employees as if they are workhorses, without knowing or caring about their personal lives. Visits from the spectres of her deceased parents attempt to teach her lessons about life and the importance of family and friends.

I am sure this story made a great movie, which it was before it became a book, and the book read like a screenplay with a lot of descriptions. I could imagine the movie in my mind as I was reading. It was a fun holiday read with lessons to learn, despite some rather significant plot holes. It is a clean and sweet read without strong language or graphic intimacy or violence.

I received this book from the publisher and from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The opinions expressed here are mine alone.
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LadyoftheLodge | 2 andra recensioner | Dec 6, 2023 |
Hallmark Christmas movie in a book.
 
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sarah_mcd | 18 andra recensioner | Oct 9, 2023 |
Author Karen Schaler has once again penned a Christmas book that I could not put down. This one is a modern-day retelling of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, only this time Scrooge is Alexis, a high-powered businesswoman. That’s right, her only nodding recognition of the holiday is to decorate the public spaces of her Atlanta office building and keep a “must-see” Douglas Fir tree that brings both city residents and tourists inside her tower.

Major characters in the story are very real. You get to know them and their problems. You also learn the sad reason that turned Alexis away from celebrating the holiday.

As a reader I could not dislike Alexis. Instead, I felt sorry for both Alexis and her employees. She has no room in her life for friends or romance as her life is devoted to work. What can her ghosts show her that will help her change?

An old Christmas photo mysteriously appears in her office...and it is the trigger for her ghost visits to begin. Her ghosts are her deceased parents, and as in the Dicken’s story, they take her to the past, present, and future.

If you have ever read the Dickens' book or watched the story on television, then you know how things work out. If not, then I will let you read the book to learn the ending on your own.

I anxiously await Ms. Schaler’s Christmas books each year and am thrilled to say that this one does not disappoint.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an advance copy of this wonderful story.
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catchat | 2 andra recensioner | Aug 27, 2023 |
This is a disappointing book with long info dumps of background information and extended descriptions of the buildings and rooms the heroine encounters. The characters are one-dimensional, and there is no point in describing the story because a plot is almost non-existent. I made it through 200 pages but should have decided to give up much earlier. My bad.
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Tatoosh | 4 andra recensioner | Aug 10, 2023 |

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13
Medlemmar
384
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#62,948
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3.9
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66
ISBN
40
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2
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