Christmas on Candy Cane Lane Book Review

I was looking through the books on Good Reads that I hadn't read this book in the series but I finished all the other ones.  I guess it is good that I checked on Good Reads and went to the library system to reserve it.  Christmas on Candy Cane Lane (Life in Icicle Falls) by Sheila Roberts
came in and I picked it up but was in the middle of a few different books that needed to be read and returned before the library due date. I was excited to get to this Christmas story after finishing my Christmas mystery.

Icicle Falls is the place to be at Christmas… Everyone's getting ready for Christmas in Icicle Falls, especially on Candy Cane Lane, where holiday decorating is taken very seriously. Tilda Morrison, town cop, is looking forward to celebrating Christmas in her first house…until she discovers that she's expected to "keep up" with the neighbors, including Maddy Donaldson, the inspiration behind the whole extravaganza. But this year, someone's destroying Maddie's precious candy canes! Thank goodness for the cop in their neighborhood.  Tilda already has her hands full trying to sort out her love life and fix up her fixer-upper. Oh, and won't it be fun to have the family over for Christmas dinner? Not really… Then there's her neighbor, Ivy Bohn. As a newly single mom, Ivy can sum up the holiday in two words: Bah, humbug. But she's determined to give her kids a perfect Christmas.  Despite family disasters, irritating ex-husbands and kitchen catastrophes, these three women are going to find out that Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year!

I finally got to start on this book and got to see Tilda who I have read about in other books but never got to meet the way that I did in this book.  It was also great to meet all of the people that lived in her new small neighborhood of Candy Cane Lane.  There were so many interesting characters and different things going on that I had trouble putting the book down.  I loved meeting Ivy and her two kids (and her ex-husband) and learning about their lives.  In addition, there was a lot of family drama with all of the families going through the stressful Christmas season.  I hope that you check out this book and others in the series.  I went through and updated all my Good Reads so it references all my newly read books so that all of my 110 books were listed for the year.