Review: Five Gold Rings

Five Gold Rings by Kristen Bailey
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

When Eve finds her boyfriend in a compromising position in their shower with a work colleague on Christmas Eve her world comes crashing around her head. It's the most magical time of the year for her and her family and this has left her devastated. Feeling unable to spoil her family's Christmas with the news she goes to the Hatton Garden jewellers where she works part-time for some support from the kindle old couple Mr and Mrs Caspar who own the shop.

Joe also works part-time at the jewellers and has had a crush, no he's been in love with, Eve almost since the first time they met, and he's been trying to pluck up the courage to give her a very special Christmas gift. Since Joe isn't really very subtle, Mrs Caspar knows he is in love with Eve and calls him to help cheer her up. One of Joe's other part-time jobs is as a waiter at hen-dos and today (for Christmas) he's dressed as an elf, wearing very tight shorts with bells on the bottom. Then disaster strikes ... a courier was supposed to deliver five pairs of cufflinks to a customer for a Christmas Eve party, but instead he has delivered five engagement rings which were supposed to have been delivered to five guys who were intending a Christmas proposal.

Since Eve thinks her drama may have contributed to the mix-up, she offers to collect the engagement rings and deliver the cufflinks in their place. After all, London isn't that large and six deliveries is totally do-able. Egged on by Mrs Caspar, Joe offers to drive Eve around London.

This is a classic Christmas romantic comedy, complete with nativity play, men popping out of cakes, bridezillas, fairy lights, naughty crackers, multiple Santas, family barneys, and more risqué puns than you can shake a turkey at.

I liked this, but I think you have to be in the right kind of mood for a full-on, Christmas-pun laden, romantic comedy and on what was the hottest day of the year it was just a leetle too full-on for me.

I received an ARC from the publisher Storm Publishing via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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