Riley Bale, a Senior Analyst for a non-profit think tank, walks
into a plexiglass wall and knocks herself out. When she gets up, she seems to
be in a hospital but also seems to be hallucinating a green woman wearing green
who keeps appearing and disappearing. To compound Riley’s confusion, the green
being introduces herself as Gi and patters something (completely seriously) about
Christmas Miracle and Super Bonus.
Dr. LeAnn Jensen is not having a great morning, what with
having a super-bumped up head. She attends to Riley, confirms that the latter
is fine and releases her.
When Riley reaches home, Gi is
waiting intent on helping Riley find happiness via finding Riley’s Christmas
lesson and thus earning her own Super Bonus.
This long-short is the pinnacle of
the hard-to-pin-down-yet-madly-
The main protagonists are Gi and Riley,
though they aren’t the romantic couple. There are a bunch of other characters
and every single one is totally likeable. But in the whole sea of fun, nice
people, Gi raises head and shoulders above everyone else on the adorability
factor.
The writing is smooth, flowing,
fluid and fun. Humour is difficult to nail but Hollis nails it with panache
with the premise, the dialogues and all the scenes. For a short novella, this
one packs one hell of an explosive humour punch.
This book is a perfect mini-break
of a pocketful of fun.
⭐⭐⭐⭐
