Rebecca has truly outdone herself with this latest book! Delivering a magical & heartwarming Christmas romance that's perfect for curling up with on a cold winter's night. (Or like me on the hottest day of the year lol 😆)

It's a delightful escape, whisking readers away on a luxurious train journey. The train itself is a character, weaving through picturesque landscapes & stopping in iconic cities like Paris & Stockholm before reaching the ultimate festive destination of Lapland, complete with igloos & the Northern Lights.

Rebecca's descriptions are vivid & immersive, making you feel as if you're right there, sipping hot chocolate & soaking in the festive atmosphere.

What truly shines is Rebecca's signature blend of warmth, wit, & genuine emotion. The characters are relatable & endearing, their struggles & triumphs feeling authentic.

It's a book that makes you laugh, makes your heart happy, & reminds you that sometimes, the most unexpected detours lead to the most beautiful destinations.

If you're a fan of festive romance, escapist reads, or simply a story that feels like a warm hug in book form, then this is an absolute must-read!

Aubrey is dumped at the altar but decides to still do the trip of a lifetime that was her honeymoon on her own. She meets like minded single people and they call themselves.‘ The Unlucky in Love Travel Club. They travel all through Europe to all the Christmas markets to end up in Lapland. Wonderful book and love Rebecca Raisin books

The brand spanking new gorgeous romance from one my fave authors, @Rebecca Raisin, is utterly magical, enchanting, and vibrant with warm feelings all over!

Reading this early glimpse aboard the Winter Wonderland Express train was like wrapping myself in the softest, most twinkling holiday blanket. From the moment I met Aubrey – abandoned at the altar – I felt an immediate kinship. Her decision to board that luxury snow train solo (it was meant to be the honeymoon) wasn’t just brave; it touched something deep in me. A fierce hope under all that vulnerability.

The setting, winding through Europe’s enchanting Christmas markets – from Paris’ wintry charm to Stockholm’s festive glow and ending beneath Lapland’s Northern Lights – is pure escapism. It’s a traveller’s daydream… there was some serious FOMO happening on my end, and somehow I’m now endlessly looking online to get to Lapland.

Onboard the train Aubrey meets Jasper, a travel journalist who also is mending a broken heart, and their connection builds slowly. It’s the kind of slow-burn romance I adore – gentle and emotionally rich, where every moment feels earned.

Last Stop On The Winter Wonderland Express melted me. It’s about choosing joy after disappointment, finding friendship in strangers, and letting someone in, even when your heart feels broken beyond repair.

I closed the final page with that fluttery, contented ache that only the best romances give. Pure, wintry magic.

Thank you so much to Rebecca, Boldwood Books and NetGalley for my ARC.

After being left at the alter Aubrey finds herself alone on a romantic Christmas train trip. Here she connects with a small band of singles who form a tight bond as they find why love eludes them and try to move forward. An enjoyable read.

Aubrey is ready for her wedding day and her honeymoon on a slow train through Europe—except her fiancé, as it turns out, isn't. And so she finds herself on a solo honeymoon, seeking her solace in a merry band of solo-traveler misfits.

I'm a sucker for a travel story, and this hit some sweet spots—train travel, Scandinavia (well, for some of it), Christmas markets...it is hard to go wrong with those things. Aubrey is upset about her fiancé's abrupt ghosting, of course, but she's also pretty rational about it: she doesn't know what's next, but she's not looking for an apology and reconciliation; she's level-headed enough to take this as a sign that something wasn't right in the relationship and to go from there.

The surrounding cast of characters is eccentric. Sometimes excessively so—they all tend to talk as though they're in a 1950s movie, or a Mabel Maney book—but I guess they grew on me as time went on. It helped that Raisin leans into the absurd: when Aubrey impulsively tells someone that her husband is dead, her lie takes on a life of its own, with different travelers believing different things (and, of course, each tale getting wilder than the next). I didn't need the lie (it would have been enough of an impediment to the book's primary romance for Aubrey to say, reasonably, "I just got dumped, and I'm not ready for something new"), but if it was there...well, I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek element.

From a writing perspective, this is middling, but Aubrey's attitude won me over: not just about her ex, but also her overall perspective on travel (lots of it, please, but on a budget) and her honest self-interrogation about what she wants in a relationship...and whether or not that involves a white picket fence. It's nice to see. (Also nice: the fiancé eventually shows up again, and multiple sane adult conversations between various characters take place. I love books with sane adult conversations about relationships.) And, by the end of the book, two of the characters are planning a Camino pilgrimage. Please, please can there be a follow-up book that takes place on the Camino...? Aubrey's sister could walk it and find a lady lover! Or some new character! And I'd get to pretend that I was on the Meseta again...

Thanks to the author and publisher for providing a review copy through NetGalley.