Review ‘A Christmas Kiss’ by Vicky Pattinson

Amber Raey is working all the hours God sends as
assistant to one of the country’s top fashion designers, and her boss is a
complete nightmare. Amber’s dream is to launch her own fashion line one day so,
for the time being, she just has to grin and bear it. And then opportunity
comes knocking and Amber’s suddenly on the fast track to the top.

The parties, the glamour, a whirlwind romance – Amber loves every second of her
new life. But there’s more to this world than its glossy exterior suggests, and
when a face from Amber’s past reappears, she finds herself in real trouble.
With Christmas fast approaching, Amber is drifting further and further away
from her family and friends. Can she get her life back on track before it’s too
late for a merry Christmas?

When I was looking for Christmas reads a view weeks back
my eye immediately caught the cover of ‘A Christmas Kiss’. I just love the
purple and gold cover. And when I read the book description of this book I knew
I wanted to read this book. ‘A Christmas Kiss’ is my first Vicky Pattinson
novel.

In ‘A Christmas Kiss’ we meet Amber Raey. Amber is living
in London and working hard to become a fashion designer. Fashion and designing
is her big passion and she doesn’t remember a time where she didn’t want to
become a designer. But to get to her dream she has to work hard and do some
terrible jobs. But slowly working hard pays off. Amber gets herself a job
interview at one of London most prestigious fashion houses and before she knows
it, her life will never be the same.

From the moment I started reading this book I enjoyed it.
Fashion isn’t really my thing, but reading about Amber’s life in London and her
friends and adventures really made up for that. I loved getting a look inside
Amber’s life. It was fun to read how she got to her ‘dream’ job and I
especially loved getting to know Amber’s friends and family. Reading about
those characters and the relationships they had with Amber were really the best
part of the book if you ask me.

For the most part I really loved Amber’s character. I
loved how hard she worked and how she spend her free time. It was so fun to
read how passionate she was about her work. After Amber met rich and famous
Brandon, things got bad really fast. Not only for Amber’s work and life, but I
also really began to dislike her character. For someone who was so passionate
and caring one moment, she really got pretty self-absorbed and selfish fast.
But that was the path the character took, and Vicky Pattinson definitely wrote
this story in a way I really felt all those emotions. And I made me thankful we
got Amber back in the end.

To me this book had a real ‘The Devil Wears Prada’
feeling. It was a good read and different than my normal reads. The romance
wasn’t really what I hoped it would be, but in the end it was really good and
perfect for Amber’s character. I did think this book was a bit too long when I
was half way through. I think this book would have been just as good if a view
parts were left out.

But in the end this was a good read. I wouldn’t really
describe this book as a Christmas read. Something I thought it would be myself.
The whole Christmas part doesn’t really happen until the last view pages. But
that’s okay.. The Christmas Kiss is definitely an enjoyable read.

Vicky Pattison is an English television personality,
fashion designer, reality television participant, columnist, writer, media
personality and model. She is best known for appearing on the MTV show Geordie
Shore from 2011 to 2014, Ex on the Beach from 2014 and her own show Judge
Geordie since 2015.

For more information about Vicky Pattison please visit
her on Twitter.