Home for the Holidays follows three different sisters all in different stages of lives and dealing with their own struggles.

Dahlia is divorced and is now a single mom of two kids, all while still having to deal with things for her ex-husband because he doesn’t know how to do certain things for the kids. She is also on PTA, etc in order to stay busy with the kids, and her life full and busy.

Rose is engaged to be married to a social-lite family and is dealing with trying to plan a wedding with an extremely pushy mother-in-law to be and a fiancee who is zero help. She’s also kind of lost herself because she hasn’t had time to do her own work that she loves which is interior design because of how busy her mother-in-law to be has her with wedding planning.

Finally, we have Magnolia who is struggling with infertility and this struggle has put a big strain on her and her marriage. They’ve had losses and heartbreaks and they’ve been dealing with it all on their own and not telling anyone close to them which has made the strain on them even worse when it comes to handling it all. Magnolia also runs her own bakery and has kept busy with that.

Overall I loved this book. Home for the Holidays was very focused on the sister relationship and them helping each other deal with what they were struggling with in their lives. We also see them having to make the tough choice of what to do with their favorite place from their childhood and making big decisions and changes in their lives. I felt for each of the sisters at different times and the emotions they were feeling from happiness, sadness, worry, and just being unsure what to do at times came across so well in the book. From Rose having to choose between what she thought she wanted and what she actually wants now, and Dahlia learning how to move on and start doing more things for her, and Magnolia possibly getting what she’s always wanted it was just so special to see happening. The sisters were always there for one another and even though they hadn’t been spending much time together, they still knew each other’s tells for when something was wrong and they needed the other person. Just that special sister relationship without them fighting over ridiculous things or trying to one-up each other in the Christmas game instead this book was just happiness and love for each other.

I’m interested in reading more by this author now because of how well she did on keeping the focus being on the sisters and family in general and not just making this one into a typical romance book like it could have gone. It was focused on family and I love that no matter what time of year it is.