The Christmas Pact had interesting ideas, but ultimately the story is just fine.

The story centers on Riley Kennedy and Kennedy Riley, two people who happen to work at the same company but at different locations. And unfortunately for them, their emails keep getting mixed up due to them having similar names. After finally meeting, Kennedy and Riley decide to help each other during the holiday season. He’ll go home with Riley for a Christmas party and pretend to be her boyfriend and Riley has to be his date to a wedding.

Like mentioned before, the story was fine. But I did find the concept of them having similar names quite interesting. I haven’t read a book where that happened, and I thought the email mishaps were funny enough. It’s just that those things can’t sustain an entire book. And despite this book being quite short, it felt long, and like nothing major happened. Throughout the book, it felt like it was missing a spark.

And only after, I finished did I realize that this book was intended to be listened to on Audible. That might have made my experience better; I’m not quite sure. Because still, it would be the same story and the same characters. I had expected this to be a Hallmark level book, but it isn’t even that. I don’t think the authors drove into it as much as they could.

Final Analysis

The Christmas Pact is fine. It tells a complete story, but it feels incomplete.