Lily Girl’s Christmas Quilt (Wine Country Quilts Book 2) by Ann Hazelwood

Lily Girl’s Christmas Quilt (Wine Country Quilts Book 2) Reviews

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  ♏ Gina Baratono☽

  This is the second book in the Wine Country Quilts series.
  
  I was drawn to this book for a few reasons: I am a Christmas story fanatic, and this particular book finds the main character celebrating Christmas in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Wisconsin is my home so that scored a few extra points :D
  
  This story revolves around Lily who, while she wants to participate in and learn the traditions of the Wine Country, she simply cannot give up Christmas with her family, which is more important to her than anything. This Christmas, Lily travels to her sister Loretta's home in Green Bay for the holidays.
  
  This is a charming, sweet holiday story.
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  Sue

  I like books which revolve around family and quilts, quilt shops, and small towns, but this book moved too slowly for me and seemed to not really have any plot. Being part of a series, I missed out on events that happened earlier. Some unusual occurrences hint at the presence of a ghost and a rather abrupt ending have me wondering if the main characters continue in the next book. But I don't want to spend the time to find out. I believe I had read another quilt book by this author set in Door County and it also featured Christmas; this one is in Missouri wine country.
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  Kay

  These books are very light but I do enjoy the information about quilts a lot. In this book unlike East Perry series names have not been changed so restaurants, and other named locations are true. I graded this lower because I read the e-book which was a mess. Texts were part of several chapters but they were not part of the writing, they occurred in a group at the end of each chapter. Also each chapter font size changed from very large to very tiny. Yes, I can adjust it but it became very annoying.
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  Cassandra

  I really wanted to like this book. After all, it's Christmas and quilting! I knew that it was the second book in the series (says so on the cover) but I decided to go ahead and dive in. Unfortunately, I just wanted to throw the book against the wall.
  
  Lily owns an antique store but seems to have no idea how to run a successful business. She randomly decides that she is just going to close the shop to have lunch in another town or to work on her quilt block. She has no other staff to cover the shop while she's out. And yet she wonders why she is having a hard time making sales. Maybe it's because no one knows when she'll be open and when she'll randomly be closed for the afternoon.
  
  I was also really frustrated at Lily's attitude toward quilting as a hobby or an art form. She decides to join the quilting group so that she can appear friendly to the other townspeople, not because she's actually interested in making a quilt. And yet she's collected quilts for years. I can understand the late blooming interest, but I wish her motives had been more pure. She didn't seem at all interested in the quilting, just in how others perceived her. With each quilt block challenge, she thinks about what others will think of her design choices. She's not interested in designing a quilt for herself; she's only interested in impressing others. Meh.
  
  I had been hoping for a cozy winter quilting novel. The only expectation this book met is that it was set in the middle of winter!
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  Cynthia

  easy read, my only problem with these books is the editing. There doesn't seem to be a lot of care taken with grammar and spelling. Case in point, in one paragraph, they go between Mark, and Marc, the gentleman the main character is dating. You know who they mean by the storyline, but seriously, take the time to get that straight? Spelling too at times can be atrocious. It's rather ironic, due to the main character having been an editor before becoming an antique store owner.
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  Beatrice M

  love the ending
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  Linda Lewis

  love this series and i'm sorry to know there's only one book left