The Book Club Hotel

Positives: Women's supportive friendships, Found family, Holiday setting, Precocious kiddo, Just the right amount of romance, Fairly satisfying conclusion Negative: The mind-numbing, never-ending discussions of these characters' problems. Okay I get it. You all are each at a crossroads in your lives, and need to make some hard decisions. I could only empathize just so much. The dialogue involving all their individual angst was at least 3/4 of the story. Because of the focus on the character's worries, some of them came across as a little one dimensional. Considering it was a Christmas story, I would have enjoyed reading more about the elements of the hotel interiors and exterior, details of the surrounding Vermont countryside, descriptions of the food, to round the book out a little.