This book was super sweet and adorable but didn’t quite hit the mark for me. I enjoyed the book but I wasn’t sucked in or super engaged. I love hallmark movies a d books but this one was just too predictable.

I am obsessed with Christmas movies especially Hallmark Christmas movies. Therefore, this book was exactly what I needed!
Mary goes to Clark Creek to help them throw and amazing Christmas. However, Evan was against her being there from the beginning, worried about the town’s budget and all the logistical nightmares of Mary’s idea of having a Christmas Parade. Mary is fantastic at her job and obviously has solution to all of Evan’s concerns.
Throughout her 10 days in Clark Creek Mary and Evan butt heads but end up falling for each other. Exactly what I expect from a Hallmark Christmas movie! Obviously I loved Mary and Evan’s relationship, but I also loved getting to know Evan’s brothers and can see potential future books with their relationship problems.
Thank you NetGalley and Hallmark Publishing for a copy of this audiobook. This is my honest voluntary review.

I can totally see this as a Hallmark movie, but it also seemed very drawn out. I kind of zoned out in the middle. I would watch the movie though.

I love the cover and needed a Christmas-y audio and know that Hallmark-style novel will deliver the cozy, warm fuzzies I was wanting in the moment. The narrator, Amanda Stribling, made it a fun listen.
What does a grump need? A large dose of sunshine. Evan is stressing about the town's ability to survive another fiscal year. His mayor mother comes up with a hair-brained scheme to utilize Mary, a Christmas consultant. His hands are tied but his eye-rolling cannot be stopped. Mary is bound and determined to save the town through sponsors and a parade as a last ditch effort.
I am always in a mood for a Hallmark read or watch. Some use the term as a criticism, but I find that they are predictably cozy and heartwarming in the best of way. I'm looking forward to more during the upcoming holiday season!
Thank you to Hallmark Publishing for the alc. All thoughts in this review are my own.

This book was cute, sweet and so much fun! Just a wonderful, loving hallmark movie in audiobook form. If you are looking for an easy, happy read or listen, I highly recommend this book. It was well written with a good storyline. Thanks for the audiobook publisher and Netgalley for allowing me to listen and review this book.

On Christmas Avenue by Ginny Baird is published by Hallmark, and is exactly what you’d expect from a Hallmark Movie. It is full of holiday spirit, family togetherness, and small-town charm.

Mary is a Christmas Consultant. Actually, she is a consultant who moves around to businesses that need help and is called into Clark Creek to help the town which is about to go bankrupt unless they get some help. Evan is the town sheriff who is adamantly against hiring a consultant as the town doesn’t have the funds for an extravagant consultant. But, he is overruled by the mayor, who happens to also be his mother.

Mary plans a Christmas parade as a way to raise money for the town, and Evan is assigned to assist her with the logistics of the parade. As they work together to save the town of Clark Creek, they can’t deny their attraction to each other.

Yes, this is a predictable story, with a predictable ending, it is a Hallmark story after all. But, the book is full of Christmas spirit and hometown charm. I enjoyed Mary and Evan and all the townspeople who are helping with the parade. It is light and fun, and everything you’d expect, which in a Christmas book, is exactly what I want.

I listened to the audiobook and enjoyed the narration very much. I received a complimentary copy of this book. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

On Christmas Avenue has the signature charm many of us associate with Hallmark.  The descriptions of Clark Creek and its residents provide the reader with the tranquillity many of us are craving right now.  The characters are all well written and likeable.  The book flows naturally as Mary comes to town and begins planning the parade.

My favourite part of the book is the actual parade.  The author provides lots of narrative descriptions, firmly setting the Christmas vibe to this story. The predictability of this book is a given and doesn’t matter. It’s the magic of the holiday season and falling in love that makes this book a joy to read.

I listened to the audiobook version of this book which was narrated by Amanda Stribling who gives a good performance.  Her enthusiasm, and sweet tone to her voice, provide an easy listening experience.  Those readers who enjoy audiobooks may wish to choose this format.

What I Liked About On Christmas Avenue:

- The descriptions of the small town and its residents
- The Christmas vibe throughout much of the book
- The escape to a less hectic world which this book provides.

On Christmas Avenue is a fun holiday tale by author Ginny Baird. Mary Ward has been sent from her company, Davenport Development Associates, to the small Virginia town of Clark Creek to help them pull back from the brink of bankruptcy. Mary has been told that if she can pull this off there will be a promotion and move to Seattle in her future,

Mary is used to living out of a suitcase, may even prefer it. She grew up with her single mother, a corporate chef, and found them spending a few months at most in some of the country’s most high placed hotels before moving on to the next. Mary’s career has led her on a similar path so it feels quite familiar. Never having known roots, Mary has no idea how to take root in a new place herself.

It is Mary’s idea to hold a major Christmas parade with sponsors, float participants, and donations on a special website. The mayor, Connie Clark, and town council have signed on and are giving Mary full support. Now she just needs to bring the brawny sheriff, Evan Clark, on board.

Evan has been assigned to be Mary’s community liaison to carry out the parade plans and provide security for the event. He sees no sense in wasting money on this Christmas consultant when the town is so financially hurting and greets her with a somewhat negative demeanor. So now Mary feels the pressure in needing to do her job plus win over the large veteran, now sheriff.

As Mary’s plans come together and she is able to address each one of Evan’s issues, she slowly wins him over. However, things begin happening that are setbacks for Mary with the third one almost breaking Mary’s resolve. There goes her promotion and move if things fail, and it may just cost her her job. But, does Mary really want to move to the other side of the country?

This is a sweet and imaginative story with fun characters and a lovely holiday setting. I very much enjoyed this story and do recommend it!

Everything you'd expect from a Christmas Hallmark movie...turned book! A quaint town in need of saving, a grinch in need of some Christmas cheer, and a remarkably sweet love story make this an A+ for a happy Christmas read! Low stakes conflict and a guaranteed happily ever after is what every Hallmark lover craves. Add the crash of big city and small town, and this book delivers! If Hallmark Christmas isn't your jam, this isn't your book. If you need a new intake for amazing Hallmark Christmas cheer, you'll need to pick up a copy of this book! Baird did a great job of giving us likable characters with just the right amount of tension.

On Christmas Avenue will make a perfect Hallmark Christmas movie. It hits all the requisite beats: perky lover of Christmas hired to save town with a parade, a hunky sheriff who has to help her with logistics, a town full of his relatives running all the businesses, a cute kiddo with a widowed father, horses dressed as reindeer, farmhands dressing as elves, ice skating, a tree lighting, a Nutcracker performance..... They might have to CUT some Christmas to fit into an 82 minutes movie.

However, instead of a stuffing recipe at the end of the book, I wanted to see Mary's presentations to the Town Council on how she will take their $10,000 and make $XXX,XXX with a Christmas Eve parade planned in 10 days. There is some bonkers noonoo accounting going on in Hallmarkland that neither Ernst nor Young could unravel.

*I received an advance copy of this book from NetGalley and the publisher and I am required to disclose that in my review in compliance with federal law.

2.5 stars

Characters - Evan was a sweet but he was supposed to be hard headed, a loner, stubborn. That lasted all of 5% of the book. The characters talked about how tough Evan might be to deal with but it wasn't really shown. Mary I liked, she was fun and positive, I would have loved to have Mary as a friend who was so full of Christmas spirit. The rest of the town brought Main St alive and I felt like I was really standing there.

Plot - Extremely predictable. I know romances are often predictable but I knew what the issue would be with the T-shirts when they were ordered, I knew what Evan was up to when he called the jeweler, when they went horse back riding you knew they would end up on the same horse. It wasn't the predictable ending that was frustrating, it was that all the actions leading up to it were. And the ending, what on earth was that. Like yes they were going to get together but getting engaged after 10 days, really? I was going to give this 3 stars until last 2 chapters when they got engaged. It was crazy.

The book gave off a complete Hallmark vibes (makes sense given they published it). It was too predictable and the ending ruined this, I wouldn't tell people not to read it but I wouldn't recommend it as I believe there would be better Christmas romances out there.

This book is well worth 5 stars. This is a small town romance with the sunshine and grump trope set during the holidays. The pacing of the book was on point.I cared for the characters. It's upbeat. All around good book.

Mary is exactly the type of Christmas Consultant we all need! The fact that she can pack up at a moment’s notice and have extra supplies in her SUV just go to show her level of love and dedication to her profession. Her creativity is contagious, and I love how she turns Clark Creek upside down, including Evan, the county sheriff. Everything about this sweet holiday story touches all the right places to put you in the mood for spreading Christmas cheer. The story builds up two brothers with potential stories to come, so I surely hope to see more of this family in Clark Creek.
The narrator does a great job of capturing the feelings, emotions an excitement. Her talent truly brought this story to life in my mind’s eye.
I received a complimentary copy from the publisher via NetGalley and all opinions expressed are my own, freely given.

I mean, it's a Hallmark Romance. Low stakes conflict with a Happily Ever After. Characters are cute, there's some depth, some hints at some deeper trauma, but nothing is resolved. Just Happy Ever After.

Great for a quick, light read.

Narrator was fine, there did seem to be some weird audio blips, the volume would change randomly and the quality would change. Hopefully that gets fixed.

*Thank you to the publisher for this eARC.