It's a Fabulous Life
Crossposted from Mainlining Christmas Book Review: It's a Fabulous Life Kelly Farmer, 2023 This year, I'm looking at a handful of interesting retellings of holiday classics. Here's an obvious one. Premise: It's a Wonderful Life, but cheap-Netflix-remake ready. I've often been a bit of a cynic when it comes to It's a Wonderful Life, and this book didn't cure me of that. To me it reads like a romance novel full of very standard modern-romance-movie tropes - Girl lives in small town, but wants to move to the city. Girl's high school crush moves back to town and they reconnect. Both get roped into helping with a town holiday festival. Minor drama as girl can't decide whether to stay in town with first love or strike out for dream life in city. Magic of Christmas makes girl appreciate her life in town and decide to stay with first love. The fact that both girl and first love are female just makes it a modern romance, not an untraditional one. And act...