Always, in December

What the fuck was that. Wow. First things first as always with my reviews, this is gonna contain spoilers‼️. I’ll start by introducing our characters first - we have Josie, our almost thirty year old woman who has a hard time during Christmasses due to her parents passing on Christmas Eve when she was just 9 years old. She has her own little tradition - with her parents, it was walking up to the postbox to leave her Christmas wishes for Santa - now, it’s writing a letter for her parents. Then we have our thirty/thirty-one year old Max, who is stuck in London because of his cancelled flight. Him and Josie have a-not-so-meet-cute - she crashed into him with her bike, causing them to fall down together, which I absolutely loved😭. They had REALLY great chemistry together throughout this whole story. Bia's, Laura’s and Josie’s friendship was very wholesome. The story moves forward with pretty big time skips of months constantly - but in a way that’s not confusing or weird, I think it was very well done. Oliver (Josie’s Ex) was a shithead for cheating on her and I still don’t understand why Josie took him back again to 'try' and see if they both can ‘change' to make it work - cause ones a cheater always a cheater - when they separated for good, he didn’t cheat on her at least, they both chose to stop it so good for them at least? I was very sus of Erin at first (Max's on-and-off thing since university, especially since it seemed like she still wants him) that she’s gonna be an evil bitch or something but I guess they really just decided to stay good friends at the end. I was so worried about Memo (Josie’s grandma) that she was going to die when she suddenly got into hospital and needed to do heart surgery. I thought that this was going to be a cliche, happy, holiday rom-com but NO - that would’ve been to good to be true, huh?! Max fucking died because of some Bitchass inoperable brain tumor that was confirmed just before he met Josie the first time. I sobbed. Even though he wanted to tell her himself several times, she didn’t get to hear it from him.. only through a letter. In the end, she writes a letter for her parents and one for Max, finally telling him 'I love you’ back, that she never got to tell him😭😭😭. The story itself was beautifully written. So yeah, to sum it all up, this was absolutely diabolical.