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Two hotel receptionists—and arch-rivals—find a collection of old wedding rings and compete to return them to their owners, discovering their own love story along the way. It’s the busiest season of the year, and Forest Manor Hotel is quite literally falling apart. So when Izzy and Lucas are given the same shift on the hotel’s front desk, they have no choice but to put their differences aside and see it through. The hotel won't stay afloat beyond Christmas without some sort of miracle. But when Izzy returns a guest’s lost wedding ring, the reward convinces management that this might be the way to fix everything. With four rings still sitting in the lost & found, the race is on for Izzy and Lucas to save their beloved hotel—and their jobs. As their bitter rivalry turns into something much more complicated, Izzy and Lucas begin to wonder if there's more at stake here than the hotel's future. Can the two of them make it through the season with their hearts intact?
Two hotel receptionists—and arch-rivals—find a collection of old wedding rings and compete to return them to their owners, discovering their own love story along the way. It’s the busiest season of the year, and Forest Manor Hotel is quite literally falling apart. So when Izzy and Lucas are given the same shift on the hotel’s front desk, they have no choice but to put their differences aside and see it through. The hotel won't stay afloat beyond Christmas without some sort of miracle. But when Izzy returns a guest’s lost wedding ring, the reward convinces management that this might be the way to fix everything. With four rings still sitting in the lost & found, the race is on for Izzy and Lucas to save their beloved hotel—and their jobs. As their bitter rivalry turns into something much more complicated, Izzy and Lucas begin to wonder if there's more at stake here than the hotel's future. Can the two of them make it through the season with their hearts intact?
בשל מגבלות הוצאה לאור, הספר הזה בפורמט קינדל לא יכול להיות מועבר באופן אלחוטי ויש להורידו ולהעבירו באמצעות USB.
עקב הגבלות המוציא לאור הספריה אינה יכולה לרכוש עותקים נוספים של הכותר, אנו מתנצלים אם יש רשימת המתנה ארוכה. וודא שבדקת עותקים אחרים, מכיוון שיכולות להיות מהדורות אחרות זמינות.
מובאות-
From the cover
Izzy
If Lucas is doing something, I have to be doing it, too, but better.
This has generally been very good for my career over the last year, but it does mean that right now I am grappling with a fir-tree branch which measures at least twice my height and four times my width.
"Do you need help?" Lucas asks.
"Absolutely not. Do you?"
I swing my branch into position and narrowly avoid smashing one of the many vases around the lobby. I'm always dodging those things. Like much of the furniture at Forest Manor Hotel and Spa, the vases come from the Bartholomew family, who own the estate. Morris Bartholomew (Barty) and his wife, Uma Singh-Bartholomew (Mrs. SB), have turned the grand house into a hotel, and they've repurposed as many of the old family furnishings as possible. I am all for an upcycle-it's kind of my thing-but there's something urn-like about some of these vases. I can't shake the thought that one of them might contain an old Bartholomew.
"Is that whimsical?" Lucas asks me, pausing to examine my fir branch.
I'm tying it to the bottom of my side of the staircase. The Forest Manor staircase is famous-it's one of those gorgeous sweeping ones that splits in two midway and just begs you to walk down it slowly in a wedding dress, or maybe arrange your children up it for an adorable Von Trapp-ish family photograph.
"Is that?" I ask, pointing to the potted tree Lucas has hauled in from the garden and placed at the bottom of his side of the staircase.
"Yes," he says with absolute confidence. "It is an olive tree. Olives are very whimsical."
We are dressing the lobby for tomorrow's wedding-the bride's theme is "winter whimsy." Lucas and I have decided that asymmetry is whimsical, so we are each doing one side of the staircase. The trouble is, if Lucas goes big, I have to go bigger, so now quite a lot of the garden is in the lobby.
"They're also Mediterranean."
Lucas looks at me flatly, like, Your point is?
"We're in the New Forest. It's November."
Lucas frowns. I give up.
"What about my silver fairy lights, then?" I ask, gesturing to the small, sparkling lights woven through the greenery that now runs up my bannister. "Do you think we need some on your side, too?"
"No. They're tacky."
I narrow my eyes. Lucas finds everything about me tacky. He hates my clip-in highlights, my baby-pink trainers, my fondness for supernatural teen dramas. He doesn't get that life is too short for rules about what's cool and what's not cool; life's for living. In full HD. And baby-pink trainers.
"They're cute and twinkly!"
"They're so bright. Like little daggers. No."
He unfolds his arms and places his hands on his hips instead. Lucas likes to take up as much space as possible. This is presumably why he is always at the gym, so that he can claim yet another inch of my airspace with his ever-broadening shoulders and his bulging biceps.
I take a deep, calming breath. Once this wedding is over, Lucas and I can go back to alternating shifts wherever possible. These days, things don't go well if we're at the front desk together for too long. Mrs. SB says it "doesn't seem to create quite the right atmosphere." Arjun, the head chef, says, "When Izzy and Lucas are on shift at the same time, the hotel is about as welcoming as my grandmother's house," and I've met Arjun's grandmother, so I can say with confidence that this was a very rude remark.
But Lucas and I are the most experienced front-of-house staff at the hotel, and we're the ones who manage weddings, which means that for the next two days, I have to endure nonstop...
ביקורות-
July 31, 2023 O’Leary returns (after The No-Show) with a humorous and poignant rom-com set at a boutique hotel in southern England. Concierges Izzy and Lucas can’t stand each other after a miscommunication: the previous Christmas, Izzy sent Lucas a note confessing her romantic feelings and he, apparently, cruelly rejected her and kissed her roommate. However, they both care deeply about Forest Manor hotel, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. The owners want to raise extra money by selling everything in the lost property room and assign Izzy and Lucas to sort through it all. It seems like a hopeless proposition (boxes have labels like “tatty books” and “coats left behind in 2019”)—until they come across five lost wedding rings. After Izzy gets one back to its rightful owner and receives a huge reward, the race is on to return the others. Exuberant Izzy and focused, somber Lucas have little in common on the surface, but O’Leary soon makes it clear how well they work together—and how deeply they need each other. Add in some charming supporting characters and stakes that feel high but believable, and the result is exactly the cute contemporary romp that O’Leary’s fans have come to expect. Agent: Tanera Simons, Darley Anderson Literary.
Starred review from February 1, 2024
Last year, Izzy's Christmas confession of love went unrequited, and her feelings for Lucas changed from attraction to enmity. When the hotel that they both work at literally begins to crumble around them, and it's clear that there will be layoffs, their rivalry reaches a whole new level. While clearing out the hotel's lost and found, Izzy and Lucas discover a box of wedding rings and wager on who can return them to their owners the fastest. As the competition between them heats up, however, so does their romantic connection, and Izzy begins to wonder whether the incident of last Christmas was just a mistletoe misunderstanding. O'Leary (The No-Show) presents a playful contemporary romance with holiday touches and heartwarming tropes--complete with a climactic race to the airport. Narrators Jessie Cave and Lino Facioli are a delightful duo, expertly capturing upbeat Izzy, uptight Lucas, and their undeniable chemistry. Extra touches, such as a tinny effect on telephone conversations, enhance the already enchanting listening experience. VERDICT Will appeal to listeners seeking an engaging opposites-attract holiday rom-com. Recommended for fans of Sophie Cousens, Emily Henry, and Katherine Center.--Lauren Hackert
Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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